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About town
The New Yorker and the world it made
By Yagoda, Ben
- ISBN
- 978-0-68481-605-0
- Publisher
- New York : Scribner, c2000.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2000
Thomas Kunkel's excellent life of founding editor Harold Ross (Genius in Disguise, 1994) marked The New Yorker's 70th birthday. Now, for the diamond anniversary comes this institutional biography by Yagoda (Will Rogers), who also ably revisits the magazine's glory days of Thurber, Benchley, Cheever, Liebling, and E.B. White before moving on to the post-Ross years. Kunkel's book would seem to have left little room for another ov...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
