Richard J Tofel: 2 books

Book cover of Restless Genius

Restless Genius

Barney Kilgore, The Wall Street Journal, and the Invention of Modern Journalism

by Richard J. Tofel
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009

The story of the man who transformed The Wall Street Journal and modern media In 1929, Barney Kilgore, fresh from college in small-town Indiana, took a sleepy, near bankrupt New York financial paper—*The Wall Street Journal—*and turned it into a thriving national newspaper that eventually...
Book cover of Eight Weeks in Washington, 1861

Eight Weeks in Washington, 1861

Abraham Lincoln and the Hazards of Transition

by Richard J. Tofel
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011

A close look at the first eight weeks after Abraham Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861, reveals a time when the fate of the nation's capital, certainly of the Lincoln Administration, and perhaps of the nation itself, seemed very much in doubt. This is a story of a president uncertain and...
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