Who was Joseph Pulitzer?

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Everybody knows the Pulitzer Prizes, but who were they named after?

They were named after Joseph Pulitzer, a man who lived the American dream, an almost penniless immigrant who rose up to dominate the newspaper industry of his day. His path to success was far from easy, however, as he had to overcome rampant Antisemitism and political corruption that would have crumbled lesser men.

Crimmins’ work pulls the reader into the drama of the Gilded Age, where Pulitzer was in the thick of battles to eliminate poverty and economic exploitation against men who were far more powerful than him. In reading his story we can see the portrait of a man who underwent great personal sacrifice to confront evils in American society that are almost unimaginable today,