The Man Time Forgot: A Tale of Genius, Betrayal, and the Creation of Time Magazine
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (550 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060505508 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Glenn Hurowitz said Pioneering Style, Extraordinary Story. Isaiah Wilner's new biography, The Man TIME Forgot, does for Time Magazine what Time Magazine did for the news - it is less concerned with "how much it includes between its covers - but in how much it gets off the pages into the minds of its readers." Wilner indeed gets his remarkable . Alexander S. Taylor said Fantastic storytelling. The Man Time Forgot is a true pleasure to read. It's hard to fathom that the history of such an important organization could be lost, but who knew that its rediscovery could be such fun? Wilner has crafted a truly fascinating tale, elucidating the enigmatic relationship between the mod. Richly detailed and fun Amos B. Elberg I found The Man Time Forgot on a friend's recommendation, picked it up and could not put it down. Read it in less than a day. I think it's going to be a huge success. It's a suspenseful narrative that grabs you from the start--a deathbed scene--and never lets you go right up til the en
By age thirty, they were both millionaires, having laid the foundation for a media empire. When Hadden died at the age of thirty-one, Luce began to meticulously bury the legacy of the giant he was never able to best.In this groundbreaking, stylish, and passionate biography, Isaiah Wilner paints a fascinating portrait of Briton Hadden—genius and visionary—and presents the first full account of the birth of Time, while offering a provocative reappraisal of Henry R. Luce were not yet twenty-five when they started Time, the first newsmagazine, at the outset of the Roaring Twenties. Friends, collaborators, and childhood rivals, Briton Hadden and Henry R. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.. He attended Yale University and was editor in chief of the Yale Daily News. Luce, arguably the most significant media figure of the twentieth century.Isaiah Wilner is a writer for New York magazine. But their partnership was explosive and their competition ferocious, fueled by envy as well as love
(Oct.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. He was also the originator of "Timestyle" journalism—news as a pageant of outsized personalities, punchy narratives, colorful details, Homeric cadences and sly, urbane drolleries, where "heroes and villains strode through the world, raising voices, slamming fists, firing guns"—which readers found enthralling and critics shallow and misleading. In Wilner's telling, Hadden himself is a Fitzgerald character: a hard-drinking, perpetually carou