ABSTRACT
Jozsef Pulitzer was one of many men who went west to make money in the post-war period. In doing so they re-created journalism in the new nation emerging. The new nation that emerged in the post-Civil War period was fashioned not only by those who made it but those who looked on. Chicago after the Civil War was the West's preeminent boom town and a template for the re-forming of a new nation. By 1870, the city had shockingly swelled to 300,000, fifth largest in the nation. Pulitzer brought to the World a communitarian regard for immigrant readers, an enthusiasm shared by the Chicago Daily News and other newspapers serving many of America's 50 million citizens newly arrived in the nation. They practiced a new journalism that saw serving the "public interest" as an antidote to the housing, sanitation, and working conditions faced by millions of urban poor in industrializing America.
