Inside The Founding Of Newsweek: How a Hot-Tempered, One-Legged R.A.F. Pilot Launched an American Media Giant
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (836 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 098523802X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 230 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Martyn was the founder of Newsweek, the second-largest news magazine in the history of the United States. Thomas J.C. . The son of a British soldier, Martyn served as a pilot in World War I, losing a leg in an aviation accident. After the war he was recruited as Time's first foreign editor, then worked for the New York Times before raising capital to start Newsweek. He published the first edition in 1933, at the height of the Great Depression
"Despite the fact that Martyn's passion for news and writing eventually causes him to lose to a power-hungry board of fast-moving stakeholders, the warmth, passion, and refusal to give up on one's dreams make this work a memorable and well-written read." - IndieReader
One of a kind Perry B. Alers, aka peebee This is a memoir by “a hot-tempered, one-legged RAF pilot who launched an American media giant”, or so states the subtitle. It was published in 2015 by the author’s granddaughter, Anne M. Alexander, from a manuscript left behind at his death in 1979. It is thus akin to an ancient volume found in the rubble of a ruined city from which we must deduce the details of the civilization which produced it. Less dramatically, it is an account of the preparation for, and the first four years (1933-1937) of the life of a new weekly news magazine, designed to compete with and augment the coverage of TIME, then almost the o. Fascinating but full of gaps Daniel J. dundon I had recently finished reading a biography of Henry Luce and his founding of Time Magazine when I was asked to review "Inside the Founding of Newsweek" by Thomas J.C. Martyn. Since I had been a long-time reader of the magazine, I agreed and was not disappointed.Martyn's granddaughter Anne Alexander does a very good job in the foreword of giving the reader an understanding how the book came about so long after Martyn's death. (Martyn's manuscript apparently languished for many years in a closet somewhere before his granddaughter took over the task of getting it published.I was a little disappointed so many gaps exist in the tell. Compelling Memoir of the launch of iconic Newsweek Susan Gabriel Although I have written historical fiction, I don’t read as much historical nonfiction. However, I found this memoir to be quite compelling. It is well written, and I felt myself carried along with the story of how Thomas J. C. Martyn came to the U.S., working as Time’s foreign editor, and then finally launching his long-held dream of a national newsmagazine to compete with Time. He felt there was room for more than one such publication, and he was right.I was struck by the immense effort involved not only in getting such an operation running, but also raising the capital and dealing with the board. I felt transporte
Martyn had a vision: to establish a weekly news magazine that would rival Time, which in the 1930s was the only magazine of its kind in the United States. Like so many visionaries, Martyn was a charismatic yet difficult man to work with, and his often-feisty character comes through clearly in his memoir. This classic entrepreneur's story reveals the struggles and triumphs of getting a national magazine off the ground during the depths of the Great Depression. One man's pursuit of his dream meets the tumultuous era of the 1930s in a book which will entertain and engage Newsweek fans, entrepreneurs, and history buffs alike.. Bronze Medal Winner of the 2015 Axiom Business Book Awards in the biography/memoir category.A former wartime pilot and Time magazine's first foreign editor, Thomas J. So it came as a bitter blow when a series of rivalries and disputes led to his ousting from the Newsweek board just four years after its fir