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Time
A fascinating look at the history of Time, the world's most influential newsweekly.
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The Publisher
Acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the most important publisher of the twentieth century. As the founder of Time, Fortune, and Life magazines, Luce changed the way we consume news and the way we understand our world. Born the son of missionaries, Henry Luce spent his childhood in rural China, yet he glimpsed a milieu of power altogether different at Hotchkiss and later at Yale. While working at a Baltimore newspaper, he and Brit Hadden conceived the idea of Time: a “news-magazine” that would condense the week’s events in a format accessible to increasingly busy members of the middle class. They launched it in 1923, and young L...
Time Goes to War
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The New York Times Magazine Photographs
For over thirty years, the New York Times Magazine has presented the myriad possibilities and applications of photography. Aperture is pleased to present the upcoming publication and exhibition The New York Times Magazine Photographs, which reflects upon and interrogates the very nature of both photography and print magazines at this pivotal moment in their history and evolution. Edited by Kathy Ryan, long-time photo editor of the magazine, and with a preface by former editorial director Gerald Marzorati, this volume presents some of the finest commissioned photographs worldwide in four sections: reportage, portraiture, style, and conceptual photography, including photo illustration. Diverse...
Time: 80 Days That Changed the World
"Time" looks back at its 80 years of publishing, with a fascinating collection of changing events, breathtaking progress and memorable people, heroes and villains, dictators and martyrs, movie stars and athletes.
Time: D-Day
DESCRIPTION: On June 6, 2004, people the world over - especially Americans - will pause toremember the 60th anniversary of the Normandy invasion that forever changed history. D-Day: 24 Hoursthat Saved the World honors the 130,000 heroic American and Allied troops who risked their lives toliberate Europe and end the Nazi occupation. Here are fascinating portraits of the men who designed theinvasion - and the men who fought it: Eisenhower and Churchill, Montgomery and Rommel. Here arethe landing crafts, the medics, the radio operators, the nurses. Here are the memorable photographs,historic reunions, majestic cemeteries, the unforgettable memories of June 6, 1944.Here is D-Day: 24 Hours that Saved the World.
The Powers That Be
A Pulitzer Prize winner’s in-depth look at four media-business giants: CBS-TV, Time magazine, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. In this fascinating New York Times bestseller, the author of The Best and the Brightest, The Fifties, and other acclaimed histories turns his investigative eye to the rise of the American media in the twentieth century. Focusing on the successes and failures of CBS Television, Time magazine, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, David Halberstam paints a portrait of the era when large, powerful mainstream media sources emerged as a force, showing how they shifted from simply reporting the news to becoming a part of it. By examining landmark...
The Lock In
AN OLD LOVE. A STUCK DOOR. AND THE MORNING AFTER THE NIGHT BEFORE . . . THE FUNNIEST ROM COM OF THE YEAR! COSMOPOLITAN'S BEST NEW GOOD BOOK TO READ 'Joyful' STYLIST 'Hilarious' WOMAN 'The year's most original romcom' ELLE 'Proper laugh-out-loud stuff' FABULOUS MAGAZINE 'Stuffed full of belly laughs and nostalgia' RED 'A dream read' i _______ They'd like to be going out. Instead they're stuck in . . . Best friends Ellen and Alexa have always been close. Until one fateful morning when they get locked in their attic with hapless housemate Jack and Alexa's date from the night before, Ben. With no way out, hangovers and the hours crawling by, it seems best friends can get too close for comfort. E...
