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The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars

The Murder of the Century A grisly discovery in 1897 New York plunges detectives headlong into the era's most perplexing murder and prompts battling newspaper moguls Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst to sensationalize the case in their tabloids, turning it into a publicity circus. Full description

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