Download The Huntress: The Adventures, Escapades, and Triumphs of Alicia Patterson: Aviatrix, Sportswoman, Journalist, Publisher AudioBook Free

From National Publication Award-winner Michael J. Arlen and screenwriter Alice Arlen, this is actually the fascinating, ambitious life of Alicia Patterson, who became, at time thirty-four, one of the youngest and most successful newspaper publishers in America when she founded Newsday. With The Huntress, the Arlens give us a revealing picture of the approach to life and practices of the Patterson-Medill posting dynasty-one of the country's most powerful and influential papers families-but also Alicia's rebellious early on years and her dominating dad, Joseph Patterson. Creator and editor of the New York Daily News, Patterson was an elaborate and glamorous number who in his junior possessed reported on Pancho Villa in Mexico and possessed outraged his conventional Chicago family by briefly espousing socialism. Not once but twice, first at time twenty, Alicia agreed to marry men her dad chose, despite having her own more interesting suitors. He encouraged her to do the difficult training required for an aviation travel permit; in 1934 she became only the tenth woman in America to receive one. Patterson brought her along to London to talk with Lord Beaverbrook, to Rome to meet Mussolini, and also to Moscow in 1937, at the time of Stalin's "show trials," in which a young George Kennan had taken her under his wing. Alicia found the journalism insect writing for Liberty newspaper, an offshoot of the Daily News. A vacation to People from france Indochina outlined her hunting skills and made the sultan of Johor an ardent admirer; another trip would entail India, the dangerous sport of pigsticking, several maharajas, and a tiger hunt. A third marriage, to Harry Guggenheim, blew hot and chilly but it do previous; it was with him that she began Newsday in a ex - dealership on Long Island. Governor Adlai E. Stevenson, two-time Democratic prospect for leader, would be one of her previous admirers. With access to family archives of journals and characters, Michael and Alice Arlen have written an astonishing portrait of an maverick newspaperwoman and an intrepid adventurer, informed with humor, compassion, and a serious understanding of a time and place. Cover image reproduced from Hofstra University or college Special Collections.

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