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The professional and personal lives of the pioneers of an enduring magazine.
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Vinciguerra recounts the good ole days, when the leading lights of The New Yorker--editor Wolcott Gibbs, prose stylist E.B White, and cartoonist James Thurber--steered the magazine through the years after the Great War and into the Cold War. Both contributor to and commentator on America’s mid-century zeitgeist, the magazine was prestigious, informative, entertaining, and not just a magazine, according to its founder and editor, Harold Ross, but a movement. Full of interesting characters and running the gamut from the comique to the triste, the book also highlights regulars of the storied Algonquin Round Table--the wisecracking Dorothy Parker and critic/raconteur Alexander Wollcott, among others. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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