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First edition |
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x, 452 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-422) and index |
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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." |
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"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 |
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Text in English |
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New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925) -- History
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Gibbs, Wolcott, 1902-1958
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White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985
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Thurber, James, 1894-1961
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Periodicals -- Publishing -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
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