Tiger by the tail: Twenty-five years with the stormy Tri-City Herald [B1714]

1975 HCDJ in nice clean condition. From the jacket flaps: "Tiger By The Tail vividly traces the first 25 years of the highly vocal, stormy Tri-City Herald, one of the most unique newspapers in America. Never one to duck a fight, Publisher Glenn C. Lee, his partner, Bob Philip and The Herald's staff, were forced to overcome tremendous odds to survive.

Tiger By The Tail is the story of a small newspaper's stand against the powerful International Typographical Union which spent over a million dollars trying to crush The Herald. The Herald also survived seven libel suits in its first six years; one of the worst floods in the history of the Columbia River; collusion, bomb attempts, assorted harassment, chicanery-and a subsidized ITU newspaper bent on chasing it out of the market place. It is also a story of how The Herald fought back, and won.

Author Fran Pugnetti spent four years reconstructing the turbulent history of the newspaper from court records, newspaper files, interviews with the principals and from her own extensive knowledge of the situation as a former staff member of The Herald. Paying close attention to detail, she has candidly chronicled the frantic struggle for survival by the newspaper. Raised in Tacoma and educated in Journalism at Washington State University, Fran Pugnetti started her writing career on the Tacoma News Tribune, where she met her husband, Don. Together they spent 25 years in the Tri-Cities area where she organized The Herald's Women's Department and served as one of the newspaper's first Women's Editors."

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