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July/August 1996 | Volume 47, Issue 4
Authors:
Historic Era:
Historic Theme:
Subject:
July/August 1996 | Volume 47, Issue 4
by Stephen D. Cuozzo , Times Books, 332 pages, $25.00 . CODE: RAN-41
Cuozzo lived through the newspaper wars of the late seventies, beginning with the tabloid one-upmanship over the 1977 Son of Sam murder case and continued the next year when the Daily News launched its own, competing afternoon , edition, “Tonight.” The endangered Post prevailed and even gained readers. The book ends with the exhilarating days of 1993, when would-be owners vied for the Post before a bankruptcy judge —and rogue editors and press operators kept the paper going even after it had been legally closed down. The cast includes the Post ’s strange gallery of owners, from the Australian billionaire Rupert Murdoch to the “parking garage king” Abe Hirschfeld, known for publicly spitting on his enemies. It’s Alive! is a tough, affectionate book.