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001    ocm902661365 
003    OCoLC 
005    20200910041850.0 
008    150819s2016    nyuaf    b    001 0deng   
010    2015027980 
020    9780393353532|q(paperback) 
020    0393353532|q(paperback) 
020    9780393240030|q(hardback) 
020    0393240037|q(hardback) 
035    (OCoLC)902661365 
037    |bW W Norton & Co Inc, Keystone Industrial Park Attn Mike 
       Charnogursky 800 Keystone Industrial Park, Scranton, PA, 
       USA, 18512|nSAN 202-5795 
040    DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dAS|dEAS 
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050 00 PN4900.N35|bV56 2016 
082 00 051|223 
100 1  Vinciguerra, Thomas J.,|eauthor 
245 10 Cast of characters :|bWolcott Gibbs, E.B. White, James 
       Thurber, and the golden age of the New Yorker /|cThomas 
       Vinciguerra 
250    First edition 
264  1 New York :|bW. W. Norton & Company,|c[2016] 
300    x, 452 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-422) and 
       index 
505 0  A Christmas greeting to The New Yorkers" -- "Either 
       competent or horrible" -- "A ludicrous pastime" -- 
       "Infatuation with pinheads" -- "Boy, do I like to handle 
       authors!" -- "Most insanely miscast" -- "An offense to the
       ear" -- "Pretty gummy at best" -- "A silly occupation for 
       a grown man" -- "I am a child of the sun" -- "Always 
       poison" -- "Flying high and fast" -- "The moral climate is
       against it" -- "A lot of suicidal enterprises" -- "Whose 
       days, in any case, were numbered." 
520    "From its birth in 1925 to the early days of the Cold War,
       The New Yorker slowly but surely took hold as the 
       country's most prestigious, entertaining, and informative 
       general-interest periodical. In [this book], Thomas 
       Vinciguerra paints a portrait of the magazine's cadre of 
       charming, wisecracking, driven, troubled, brilliant 
       writers and editors"--Dust jacket flap 
546    Text in English 
600 10 Gibbs, Wolcott,|d1902-1958 
600 10 White, E. B.|q(Elwyn Brooks),|d1899-1985 
600 10 Thurber, James,|d1894-1961 
630 00 New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)|xHistory 
650  0 Periodicals|xPublishing|zNew York (State)|zNew York
       |xHistory|y20th century