A neglected story -- Pulitzer: past-master -- Hearst: playboy and prodigy -- Scripps: bare-knuckle fighter -- Colonial crusaders -- Constitution and amendments -- Suppression and warfare -- For and against slavery -- The Ku Klux Klan -- Trying to tame Tammany -- Other Augean stables -- For safer traffic -- Civic and social betterment -- Janus in Chicago -- Phoenix in Toledo -- Sins of omission -- Cerberus of the cash box -- Castor and Pollux -- On varied salients.