Dr. Surtaine has grown rich selling a cure-all from torchlit platforms, and now he is the leading citizen of a busy American city. When he buys the local newspaper, the Clarion, and hands it to his idealistic son Hal, the young man discovers how advertising money, slum landlords and his father’s own business shape the news.
A crusading newspaper novel by the journalist who helped expose the patent-medicine trade. Download the free EPUB.