The Magnificent Medills: America's Royal Family of Journalism During a Century of Turbulent Splendor
&#8220;[An] immensely entertaining book.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. McKinney vividly re-creates the city&#8217;s no-holds-barred newspaper culture.&#8221; (Chicago Tribune)&#8220;Shifting smoothly from the life of one Medill, Patterson or McCormick to another, in the end she achieves a clear and comprehensive family biography, with all its complex interconnections.&#8221; (New York Times Book Review)&#8220;A solid account of this family.&#8221; (Washington Post)&#8220;Megan McKinney has written a knock-out dynastic history about the world of journalism. InThe Magnificent Medillswe learn how a single family forever changed Chicago and America. It&#8217;s impossible to understand today&#8217;s modern media world without reading this brilliant book. Highly recommended!&#8221; (Douglas Brinkley, author ofThe Quiet World)&#8220;Megan McKinney&#8217;s wonderfully researched, thoroughly engrossing,The Magnificent Medills, reveals Chicago&#8217;s McCormick-Patterson family in all its dazzling brilliance and delicious eccentricity.&#8221; (David Garrard Lowe, author ofLost Chicago)&#8220;Compulsively readable. &nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. With its backdrop of wealth and power, The Magnificent Medills reads almost like a rich historical novel. It just happens to be true.&#8221; (BookPage)&#8220;An intensely personal look at the Medill family.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Meticulously researched and detailed.&#8221; (Washington Independent Review of Books)&#8220;Chicago historian McKinney provides the first comprehensive chronicle of the Medill newspaper dynasty.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Deftly tell[ing] the tale of one of America&#8217;s first families of business.&#8221; (Philanthropy Magazine Review)&#8220;Ink, booze and eccentricity flow through a newspaper dynasty&#8217;s veins in this lively, gossipy clan bio.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Like her subjects, McKinney blends canny fact-finding, well-paced narrative and colorful detail into a compulsively readable confection.&#8221; (Publishers Weekly)&#8220;It is their brilliance in publishing newspapers when newspapers really mattered, combined with lives full of fault lines, that truly fascinates.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. A solid account of the life and times of a family that was indeed magnficent.&#8221; (Kirkus Reviews)&#8220;This portrait of a storied newspaper dynasty packs a powerful punch. &nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Not only a compulsively readable collective biography but also an overview of the rapid evolution of the American newspaper industry during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.&#8221; (Booklist)