‘Battle of Ink and Ice’ Review: Cook and Peary’s North Pole Race

‘Battle of Ink and Ice’ Review: Cook and Peary’s North Pole Race

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Frederick Cook (1865-1940) claimed to have been the first person to reach the North Pole. If New York’s media elite of the late Gilded Age ever sat down for a banquet at Delmonico’s, you might find Horace Greeley of the Tribune, Adolph Ochs of the Times, Joseph Pulitzer of the World, William…

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