Free People, Free Markets: How the Wall Street Journal Opinion Pages Shaped America

by George Melloan

Overview

This book is about how the Wall Street Journal's opinion pages became the leading forum for the discussion of political and economic policies in the US. The Wall Street Journal also is international, with print editions in Europe and Asia, translated supplements in many foreign newspapers and online products available globally. The opinions on its pages are thus also part of an international debate. This book goes back to the original editorials of Charles Dow and his beliefs in political and economic freedom, to explain how the Journal attained such prominence and influence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781594039317
Publisher:	Encounter Books
Publication date:	07/11/2017
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

George Melloan, born in Greenwood, IN, was a writer and editor at the Wall Street Journal for 54 years. He joined the paper as a reporter in Chicago, moved to Detroit and then successively managed the Cleveland and Atlanta news bureaus. He became a page-one editor in New York in 1962 and in 1966 went to London as a foreign correspondent covering Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He covered the Six-Day War in Israel in 1967 and the Biafran War in Nigeria in 1968. In 1970 he joined the editorial page and in 1973 became deputy to Robert L. Bartley, editorial page editor and later editor of the Journal. In 1990, he moved to Brussels to take charge of overseas editorial pages, starting an op-ed foreign affairs column title “Global View.” He retired in 2006 but still writes occasionally for the Journal opinion pages. In 2009, he was author of The Great Money Binge: Spending our Way to Socialism, which is about the causes of the 2008 market crash.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

1 Dow and the Coal Miners 1

2 Barron Foresees a Fragile Peace 11

3 Hamilton Hates Prohibition 29

4 Kilgore Dissects the New Deal 37

5 Pearl Harbor's 'Stark Reality' 59

6 Royster Counsels JFK 77

7 Forecasting a Vietnam Defeat 103

8 Joining the Fray 115

9 Kissinger Scolds Bartley 123

10 The Supply-Side Revolution 139

11 We Tangle with the Times 163

12 The Rise of the Naderites 173

13 Maggie and Deng 187

14 On the Road Again 195

15 Portents in Prague 209

16 'On to Baghdad,' We Urge 217

17 Celebrating a Collapse 221

18 Bob and 'Arkansas Mores' 233

19 'We've Won!' 243

20 The Horror of 9/11 259

21 Cancer Claims Bob 273

22 Two Wars, On Iraq and Drugs 283

23 Murdoch Keeps the Faith 301

24 Modern Times 321

25 The Trump Shock 333

26 Dow's Legacy 345

Index 351