{"product_id":"letters-from-the-editor-the-new-yorkers-harold-ross-paperback","title":"Letters from the Editor: The New Yorker's Harold Ross - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHarold Wallace Ross\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eThomas Kunkel\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese exhilarating letters--selected and introduced by Thomas Kunkel, who wrote \u003cb\u003eGenius in Disguise\u003c\/b\u003e, the distinguished Ross biography--tell the dramatic story of the birth of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and its precarious early days and years. Ross worries about everything from keeping track of office typewriters to the magazine's role in wartime to the exact questions to be asked for a \"Talk of the Town\" piece on the song \"Happy Birthday.\" We find Ross, in Kunkel's words, \"scolding Henry Luce, lecturing Orson Welles, baiting J. Edgar Hoover, inviting Noel Coward and Ginger Rogers to the circus, wheedling Ernest Hemingway-- offering to sell Harpo Marx a used car and James Cagney a used tractor, and explaining to restaurateur-to-the-stars Dave Chasen, step by step, how to smoke a turkey.\" These letters from a supreme editor tell in his own words the story of the fierce, lively man who launched the world's most prestigious magazine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Kunkel is the author of a biography of Ross, \u003cb\u003eGenius in Disguise\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eEnormous Prayers\u003c\/b\u003e. He works at the University of Maryland College of Journalism and lives in Burtonsville, Maryland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.12 x 8.52 x 5.58 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 28, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45337872957542,"sku":"9780375756948","price":30.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/dWFMLyt6Sytxa1FlYjJCYlg1dUpwdz09.webp?v=1774622805","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/letters-from-the-editor-the-new-yorkers-harold-ross-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}