Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power by James McGrath Morris

Author:James McGrath Morris [Morris, James McGrath]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Autobiography
ISBN: 9780060798697
Google: MgT-H8dKBg8C
Amazon: 0060798696
Barnesnoble: 0060798696
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2010-02-01T10:00:00+00:00

Angry about his paper’s conduct, complaining about all his ailments, and dispirited, Pulitzer found no solace in Paris. He returned to Wiesbaden to see Dr. Hermann Pagenstecher, one of the many doctors with whom he had consulted when the decline in his vision began. Pagenstecher ran the largest eye hospital in Germany and treated famous patients from all over the world. He examined Pulitzer in his private clinic, a large white house with purple-blossomed creepers clinging to its columns and running along its windowsills. Peering into Pulitzer’s eyes, he dictated his observations to his assistant, who dutifully recorded them. The doctor offered encouraging words to his patient even though he knew that the prognosis was bleak.

Pagenstecher was more honest with Kate. “As regards to Mr. Pulitzer,” he wrote to her, “I should not advise to tell him the real character of the disease of the left eye because it would take away every hope from him and would have a great and unfavorable impression on his total nervous system.”

Pulitzer rejoined his family in Baden-Baden, another town known for its baths, located in the western foothills of the Black Forest. The reunion was grim. The daughter of an old friend who joined them wrote to her parents that Joseph was “so melancholy of late that they did not know what to do.”

With the coming of fall, Pulitzer returned to Paris. Dissatisfied with the conduct of the World, he set off, by telegram, yet another round of editorial and management changes back in New York. Ballard Smith figured he had been given his walking papers when he learned of a farewell dinner at Delmonico’s. “Grateful memories for loyal services,” wired Pulitzer, “sorry for parting and confident hopes for happy career.”

As Pulitzer, from a distance, played musical chairs with his editors, the World lumbered on. It survived the managerial gyrations because it held an unchallenged position in New York. That luxury, however, would not last any more than calm waters on the ocean that Pulitzer continually crossed.

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