ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 2222
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Walter Davenport, dobro stanje, tvrd povez, zaštitni omot
From the thirteen colonies to the fifty states, nothing in American life has been a more consistent shaper of tastes or barometer of the national temper than the popular magazine. Unlike motion pictures, radio, television, or even newspapers, the magazine has been a shameless editorializer, a barefaced preacher, an irate stump speaker, and a deliberate creator of controversy. It began dictating fashion in 1803, when the Boston Weekly campaigned for long sleeves (naked elbows are disgusting!) and is still at it. Abolition, woman suffrage, pure food and drug acts, and labor reform were largely fostered by crusading magazine editors, while slander, libel, and damning innuendo were the route to riches for others. Among those remarkable individuals whose careers are recalled in this lively book are Joseph Dennie, William Lloyd Garrison, Sarah Hale, William Cowper Brann, Elbert Hubbard, Victoria C. Woodhull, Edward William Bok, William D’Alton Mann, and Benjamin Orange Fowler. All these vigorous, violent, larger-than-life people-plus McClure, the muckrakers, Fox of the Police Gazette, Leslie of “Swill Milk” fame, and many more-populate this dazzling, witty look at the magazine’s glorious and infamous history, from the birth of the colonial American to the crusading heyday of Collier’s. A history of all these opinion-makers is long overdue, and no two writers could bring more skill, expertise, and devotion to the project. James Derieux is a veteran newspaperman, a former managing editor of the American Magazine, and the longtime Washington editor of Collier’s. Walter Davenport graduated from Philadelphia newspapers to the editorship of Collier’s, where he was also one of America’s best-known political reporters.