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Letters from the Editor

The New Yorker's Harold Ross

The New Yorker's Harold Ross

Edited by Thomas Kunkel

Edited by Thomas Kunkel

Edited by Thomas Kunkel

Edited by Thomas Kunkel

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    About Letters from the Editor

    These exhilarating letters—selected and introduced by Thomas Kunkel, who wrote Genius in Disguise, the distinguished Ross biography—tell the dramatic story of the birth of The New Yorker and its precarious early days and years. Ross worries about everything from keeping track of office typewriters to the magazine’s role in wartime to the exact questions to be asked for a "Talk of the Town" piece on the song "Happy Birthday." We find Ross, in Kunkel’s words, "scolding Henry Luce, lecturing Orson Welles, baiting J. Edgar Hoover, inviting Noel Coward and Ginger Rogers to the circus, wheedling Ernest Hemingway— offering to sell Harpo Marx a used car and James Cagney a used tractor, and explaining to restaurateur-to-the-stars Dave Chasen, step by step, how to smoke a turkey." These letters from a supreme editor tell in his own words the story of the fierce, lively man who launched the world’s most prestigious magazine.

    About Letters from the Editor

    These exhilarating letters—selected and introduced by Thomas Kunkel, who wrote Genius in Disguise, the distinguished Ross biography—tell the dramatic story of the birth of The New Yorker and its precarious early days and years. Ross worries about everything from keeping track of office typewriters to the magazine’s role in wartime to the exact questions to be asked for a "Talk of the Town" piece on the song "Happy Birthday." We find Ross, in Kunkel’s words, "scolding Henry Luce, lecturing Orson Welles, baiting J. Edgar Hoover, inviting Noel Coward and Ginger Rogers to the circus, wheedling Ernest Hemingway— offering to sell Harpo Marx a used car and James Cagney a used tractor, and explaining to restaurateur-to-the-stars Dave Chasen, step by step, how to smoke a turkey." These letters from a supreme editor tell in his own words the story of the fierce, lively man who launched the world’s most prestigious magazine.

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    About Thomas Kunkel

    Thomas Kunkel is the president of St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin. He has served as president of American Journalism Review and as dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. He is the author or editor… More about Thomas Kunkel

    About Thomas Kunkel

    Thomas Kunkel is the president of St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin. He has served as president of American Journalism Review and as dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. He is the author or editor… More about Thomas Kunkel

    Product Details

    Category: Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs | Nonfiction Classics | Literary Collections

    Paperback | $23.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Jan 23, 2001 | 448 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375756948

    Category: Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs | Nonfiction Classics | Literary Collections

    Ebook | $14.99
    Published by Modern Library
    Jul 08, 2009 | 448 Pages | ISBN 9780307557384

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