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The Thin Gold Watch: A Personal History of the Newspaper Copleys
The Thin Gold Watch A Personal History of the Newspaper Copleys Author:Walter S. J. Swanson This is the personal, "inside story" of the newspaper Copleys, and the journalistic power that a father and son built in key states of the nation. It is a rare opportunity to "meet the men down at the paper" in typical American communities - to walk into the publishers' offices - to find out how they think about you, the subscribe or the adverti... more »ser. It is a revealing glimpse inside a world that has always fascinated the outsider. But it is much more than that-it is the very human story of a father "who dug in a ditch" but came to know president, king, premier... and of an adopted son who had to begin as a newspaper "cub"-and who received his biggest heritage in the form of a Thin Gold Watch.« less