An insider's biography of America's most powerful media dynasty draws on archival material from The New York Times and family resources to chronicle the rise to success of the visionary Adolph Ochs and his colorful descendants. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Through their dynastic control of The New York Times, the Ochses and Sulzbergers have been the most powerful family in twentieth-century America. Not only have they owned the Times for more than a hundred years, but a family member has always been at the paper's helm, a position that has given them enormous influence and has been passed down as a birthright through four generations...read more

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