title: Knight: A Publisher in the Tumultuous Century
author:  Charles Whited 
description: With the caution of a stroller through a minefield, Miami Herald columnist Whited here writes an encomium to John S. Knight (1894-1981), founder of a newspaper empire. Knight, who saw himself as a self-made man, inherited the Akron Beacon Journal in the 1930s and added the Miami Herald , Detroit Free Press and Philadelphia Inquirer ; then he joined with the Ridder chain to form one of the nation's largest print media groups. He was a controversial newspaper tycoon: a Republican, he was anti-Roosevelt and anti-New Deal and a pre-World War II isolationist. Later, however, he was an early opponent of the Vietnam War. Knight maintained that he allowed his editors autonomy, yet he established a kind of political line via a column he wrote. Whited is clearly a loyalist, making a strong if arguable case for Knight as unyieldingly committed to freedom of the press. Photos not seen by PW. <br />Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  The White Lord of Wellesbourne
  
  By Kathryn Le Veque
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright 2006 by Kathryn Le Veque  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any
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  Printed by Dragonblade Publishing in the United States of America  
  
  
    
  
  
  Text copyright 2006 by Kathryn Le Veque  
  Cover copyright 2006 by Kathryn Le Veque
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  To a tall, blond hero in his own right, my brother, Bill
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ‘One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.’
  
  > > > > > > > > > > > \- Gaul Proverb
  
  CHAPTER ONE
  
  Early July, 1485 A.D.
  
  England
  
  The carriage had a bad axel and held a worse gait than that of a lame horse.
  For days she had put up with the rocking and lurching. Whenever the carriage
  came to a halt, she continued to rock and lurch long after it had stopped.
  Sometimes she thought her brains were about to come sloshing out of