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Some times in America : and a life in a year at the New Yorker
- Title
- Some times in America : and a life in a year at the New Yorker / Alexander Chancellor.
- Author
- Chancellor, Alexander.
- Publication
- New York : Carroll & Graf, 2000, ©1999.
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| Text | Request in advance | F128.9.B7 C47 2000g | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 309 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Brimming with gossip and humor, with minor tempests and huge embarrassments, this charming memoir of a modest Englishman's encounters with stateside culture in the fast lanes of Washington, D.C. and New York City wittily casts contemporary America in a revelatory, fresh, amusing light.".
- "While Chancellor's experiences with power and peril among the politically and socially elite in the American capital have provided him with an abundance of lively anecdotes, they did not prepare him for life at the New Yorker, where at the unanticipated bidding of Tina Brown he assumed the monocle of the magazine's famous top-halted mascot, Eustance Tilly, and edited "The Talk of the Town" - not always to flattering consequences.
- Under no other circumstances, however, could he have so intimately witnessed, or shared, the often exciting and frequently astonishing drama of Tina Brown's high-profile command at one of America's most august institutions."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- British > New York (State) > New York > Biography
- Chancellor, Alexander
- New York (N.Y.) > Social life and customs
- United States > Description and travel
- Journalists > Great Britain > Biography
- National characteristics, American
- Journalists > New York (State) > New York > Biography
- United States > Social life and customs
- New York (N.Y.) > Description and travel
- New Yorker
- Contents
- 1. Introductory Music -- 2. The Gentleman Hack -- 3. The Smell of Beeswax -- 4. Cigarettes and Whisky -- 5. Eat Here Now! -- 6. The Talk of the Town -- 7. Down in the Street -- 8. The Quest for Truth -- 9. He is an Englishman -- 10. The Principle of Lunch -- 11. The Democratic Dawn -- 12. The Merry Widows -- 13. Passing the Time -- 14. The Fourth Estate -- 15. Out in the Country -- 16. Goodbye to It All.
- ISBN
- 0786707100
- OCLC
- ocm43326468
- SCSB-3891649
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries