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Charles K. McClatchy and the Golden Era of American Journalism. By Steven M. Avella. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2016. xvii + 414 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $36.95.) Here is a painstaking warts-and-all biography of C. K. McClatchy (1858–1936), patriarch of a respected newspaper chain and its flagship paper, the Sacramento Bee . C. K. was a booster of the McClatchy people and papers and his beloved Sacramento and a campaigner for the Progressive movement. He waged battles against government secrecy and public corruption at a time when editors did not have the protection today’s courts provide against libel suits. But McClatchy also was an occasional public drunk, sometimes racist, and often misogynist. (He blamed women voters for the … herb.strentz{at}yahoo.com
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