Download or read book The Paper's Papers written by Richard F. Shepard and published by Crown. This book was released on 1996 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August of 1896, an ambitious publisher from Chattanooga, Adolph Ochs, bought the almost bankrupt New York Times. Shepard, who has been there for half of those hundred years, draws on rarely-seen material from The Times's vast private archive to show how Adolph Ochs and his successors built the country's greatest paper. Illustrations.