Mark Hanna found the solution in 1896, as he systematically billed corporations for their share of the campaign.
•
After 1900, William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Pulitzer and other big city politician-publishers discovered they could make far more profit through advertising, at so many dollars per thousand readers.
American | American Civil War | American Broadcasting Company | American football | African American | American Idol | American Revolutionary War | American Revolution | 19th United States Congress | American Association for the Advancement of Science | American Red Cross | 20th Century Fox | American Library Association | American Museum of Natural History | by-election | American Express | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | American League | American Association | American Heart Association | American comic book | American Institute of Architects | American Airlines | American Hockey League | election | Spanish-American War | Pan American Games | American Cancer Society | Whitney Museum of American Art | American Ballet Theatre |