2004, ISBN: 9780786860418

New York: Time Inc, 1997. Issue on the Most Influential People in America 1997. Wraps. Good. Recipient mailing information inked over on front cover, otherwise very good condition.. 126… Mehr…

New York: Time Inc, 1997. Issue on the Most Influential People in America 1997. Wraps. Good. Recipient mailing information inked over on front cover, otherwise very good condition.. 126 p. Includes illustrations. Many illustrations in color. From Wikipedia: "Time is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It was founded in 1923 and for decades dominated by Henry Luce, who built a highly profitable stable of magazines....Time has the world's largest circulation for a weekly news magazine, and has a readership of 25 million, 20 million of which are in the US....Time magazine was created in 1923 by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, making it the first weekly news magazine in the United States. The two had previously worked together as chairman and managing editor respectively of the Yale Daily News. They first called the proposed magazine Facts. They wanted to emphasize brevity, so that a busy man could read it in an hour. They changed the name to Time and used the slogan "Take Time It's Brief." Hadden was a rather carefree figure, who liked to tease Luce and saw Time as something important but also fun. That accounts for its tone, which many people still criticize as too light for serious news and more suited to its heavy coverage of celebrities (including politicians), the entertainment industry, and pop culture. It set out to tell the news through people, and for many decades the magazine's cover was of a single person. The first issue of Time was published on March 3, 1923, featuring on its cover Joseph G. Cannon, the retired Speaker of the United States House of Representatives; a facsimile reprint of Issue No. 1, including all of the articles and advertisements contained in the original, was included with copies of the February 28, 1938 issue as a commemoration of the magazine's 15th anniversary. On Hadden's death in 1929, Luce became the dominant man at Time and a major figure in the history of 20th-century media. According to Time Inc. : The Intimate History of a Publishing Enterprise 1972 2004 by Robert Elson, "Roy Edward Larsen [...] was to play a role second only to Luce's in the development of Time Inc." In his book, The March of Time, 1935 1951, Raymond Fielding also noted that Larsen was "originally circulation manager and then general manager of Time, later publisher of Life, for many years president of Time Inc., and in the long history of the corporation the most influential and important figure after Luce." Around the time they were raising US$100, 000 from wealthy Yale alumni like Henry P. Davison, partner of J.P. Morgan & Co., publicity man Martin Egan and J.P. Morgan & Co. banker Dwight Morrow, Henry Luce and Briton Hadden hired Larsen in 1922 although Larsen was a Harvard graduate and Luce and Hadden were Yale graduates. After Hadden died in 1929, Larsen purchased 550 shares of Time Inc., using money he obtained from selling RKO stock which he had inherited from his father, who was the head of the B.F. Keith theatre chain in New England. However, after Briton Hadden's death, the largest Time Inc. stockholder was Henry Luce, who ruled the media conglomerate in an autocratic fashion, "at his right hand was Larsen, " Time Inc. 's second-largest stockholder, according to "Time Inc. : The Intimate History of a Publishing Enterprise 1923 1941". In 1929, Roy Larsen was also named a Time Inc. director and a Time Inc. vice-president. J.P. Morgan retained a certain control through two directorates and a share of stocks, both over Time and Fortune. Other shareholders were Brown Brothers W. A. Harriman & Co., and The New York Trust Company (Standard Oil)....After Time magazine began publishing its weekly issues in March 1923, Roy Larsen was able to increase its circulation by utilizing U.S. radio and movie theaters around the world. It often promoted both "Time" magazine and U.S. political and corporate interests. According to The March of Time, as early as 1924, Larsen had brought Time into the infant radio business with the broadcast of a 15-minute sustaining quiz show entitled Pop Question which survived until 1925." Then, according to the same book, "In 1928 [...] Larsen undertook the weekly broadcast of a 10-minute programme series., Time Inc, 1997, 2.75, New York: Hyperion, 1995. Second Printing [stated]. Hardcover. Good/Good. x, 531, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Some page and edge soiling noted. DJ has some wear, soiling, and edge tears. Neil Baldwin is the author of a variety of books on various topics related to history and culture, and a professor at Montclair State University. Baldwin earned a B.A. in English from the University of Rochester, and a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He was the editor of The Niagara Magazine between 1974 and 1982, and worked for the New York Public Library between 1984 and 1989. He was the director of the National Book Foundation from its founding in 1989 until 2003. The genius of America's most prolific inventor, Thomas Edison, is widely acknowledged, and Edison himself has become an almost mythic figure. But how much do we really know about the man who considered deriving rubber from a goldenrod plant as opposed to the genius who gave us electric light? Neil Baldwin gives us a complex portrait of the inventor himself--both myth and man--and a multifaceted account of the intellectual climate of the country he worked in and irrevocably changed. Derived from a Kirkus review: This new biography attempts not only to chronicle Edison's achievements but to set him in the context of his time. Thomas Edison remains, more than 60 years after his death, the quintessential American genius. The electric light alone earned him a central spot in the pantheon of inventors. Add to it the phonograph, motion pictures, and over 1,000 patents for everything from an electric pen to a method for enriching iron ore and his impact is immeasurable. Fiercely competitive, Edison was a workaholic long before the term was invented. He would work 60 hours straight on a project that caught his fancy and frequently juggled four or five ongoing projects at once. His genius for assembling a team of men totally dedicated to his goals--and willing to delegate all the glory to the ``Old Man''--was surpassed only by his genius for promotion. Baldwin presents an Edison more complex than the Horatio Alger template into which his contemporaries wanted to fit his life. Like many eminent Victorians, Edison was a fascinating monster, and Baldwin captures some of both the fascination and the monstrosity., Hyperion, 1995, 2.5<

1995, ISBN: 9780786860418

Hyperion, Gebundene Ausgabe, 544 Seiten, Publiziert: 1995-02-09T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 71-01641, 0.93 kg, Verkaufsrang: 789778, Ingenieurwissenschaft & Technik, N… Mehr…

Hyperion, Gebundene Ausgabe, 544 Seiten, Publiziert: 1995-02-09T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 71-01641, 0.93 kg, Verkaufsrang: 789778, Ingenieurwissenschaft & Technik, Naturwissenschaften & Technik, Kategorien, Bücher, Fremdsprachige Bücher, Featured Categories, Englische Bücher, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_2301, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_0, Arborist Merchandising Root, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_4901, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_0, Special Features Stores, Hyperion, 1995<

1995, ISBN: 9780786860418

New York: Hyperion, 1995. stated 1st . Hardcover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included. ISBN: 0-7868-6041-3. Indexed. Roger Rosenblatt blurb. Nonfiction bythe poet. Miniscule crunch to lower … Mehr…

New York: Hyperion, 1995. stated 1st . Hardcover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included. ISBN: 0-7868-6041-3. Indexed. Roger Rosenblatt blurb. Nonfiction bythe poet. Miniscule crunch to lower fore-edge b/w photos. near fine, fine dj, green cloth w/ charcoal bds. Clean, tight 531 pgs, Hyperion, 1995, 4<

1995, ISBN: 0786860413

Near Fine, [PU: Hyperion, New York], SCIENCE B/W PHOTOS, Jacket, ISBN: 0-7868-6041-3. Indexed. Roger Rosenblatt blurb. Nonfiction bythe poet. Miniscule crunch to lower fore-edge b/w photo… Mehr…

Near Fine, [PU: Hyperion, New York], SCIENCE B/W PHOTOS, Jacket, ISBN: 0-7868-6041-3. Indexed. Roger Rosenblatt blurb. Nonfiction bythe poet. Miniscule crunch to lower fore-edge b/w photos. near fine, fine dj, green cloth w/ charcoal bds. Clean, tight 531 pgs<