Patricia Beard is the author of ten books, including Blue Blood & Mutiny: The Fight for the Soul of Morgan Stanley and After the Ball: Gilded Age Secrets, Boardroom Betrayals, and the Ball that Ignited the Great Wall Street Scandal of 1905. She is a former features editor at Town & Country, ELLE, and Mirabella magazines, and hundreds of her articles have appeared in national publications.

Roy Howard was one of the most influential newspaper men of the twentieth century. At twenty-five he became general manager of what was then United Press and by thirty-nine he was chairman of the newly renamed Scripps-Howard news empire. He was central to the reporting of two world wars, the Depression, and the creation of the American century. Patricia Beard’s Newsmaker draws on a treasure trove of personal papers to create the full picture of a man who by dint of will and determination helped create a world of journalism that lasted decades. Journalism is always evolving and much can be learned from Beard’s lively and illuminating description of a man who was at the center of global events.

Patricia Beard is the author of ten books, including Blue Blood & Mutiny: The Fight for the Soul of Morgan Stanley and After the Ball: Gilded Age Secrets, Boardroom Betrayals, and the Ball that Ignited the Great Wall Street Scandal of 1905. She is a former features editor at Town & Country, ELLE, and Mirabella magazines, and hundreds of her articles have appeared in national publications.

Roy Howard was one of the most influential newspaper men of the twentieth century. At twenty-five he became general manager of what was then United Press and by thirty-nine he was chairman of the newly renamed Scripps-Howard news empire. He was central to the reporting of two world wars, the Depression, and the creation of the American century. Patricia Beard’s Newsmaker draws on a treasure trove of personal papers to create the full picture of a man who by dint of will and determination helped create a world of journalism that lasted decades. Journalism is always evolving and much can be learned from Beard’s lively and illuminating description of a man who was at the center of global events.

Patricia Beard is the author of ten books, including Blue Blood & Mutiny: The Fight for the Soul of Morgan Stanley and After the Ball: Gilded Age Secrets, Boardroom Betrayals, and the Ball that Ignited the Great Wall Street Scandal of 1905. She is a former features editor at Town & Country, ELLE, and Mirabella magazines, and hundreds of her articles have appeared in national publications.

Roy Howard was one of the most influential newspaper men of the twentieth century. At twenty-five he became general manager of what was then United Press and by thirty-nine he was chairman of the newly renamed Scripps-Howard news empire. He was central to the reporting of two world wars, the Depression, and the creation of the American century. Patricia Beard’s Newsmaker draws on a treasure trove of personal papers to create the full picture of a man who by dint of will and determination helped create a world of journalism that lasted decades. Journalism is always evolving and much can be learned from Beard’s lively and illuminating description of a man who was at the center of global events.