Restless genius

"In 1929, Barney Kilgore, fresh from college in small-town Indiana, took a sleepy, near-bankrupt New York financial paper - The Wall Street Journal - and turned it into a thriving national newspaper that eventually was worth $5 billion to Rupert Murdoch. Kilgore then invented a national weekly newspaper that was a precursor of many trends we see playing out in journalism now." "Tofel brings this story of a little-known pioneer to life using many previously uncollected newspaper writings by Kilgore and a treasure trove of letters between Kilgore and his father, all of which detail the…