War of Words: A True Tale of Newsprint and Murder by Simon Read

War of Words: A True Tale of Newsprint and Murder

Simon Read

320 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime informative tense medium-paced
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When the news business was literally a matter of life and death. A real-life Barbary Coast, WAR OF WORDS details the bloody birth of the San Francisco Chronicle, when verbal blows traded between two of the town’s most powerful men escalated into v...

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