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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jan CohnPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.535kg ISBN: 9780822954385ISBN 10: 0822954389 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 25 July 1990 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsA fascinating and scholary look at a magazine that, for a time, wielded amazing power. . . . [Cohn] moves right along, mixing quotes with commentary in a sprightly, always interesting way. --New York Times Book Review If you think 'lively academic writing' is an oxymoron, it may interest you to know that your reviewer devoured this rich slice of Americana in a single sitting. --Barron's Cohn's analysis of George Horace Lorimer's 40-year editorship of the Saturday Evening Post cleverly sums up the purpose and ideology of that famous magazine. Cohn sets out to describe how, in 1899, Lorimer began to build the greatest weekly magazine in the world by carefully selecting fiction and nonfiction writers to present a picture of America that combined 19th-century values of hard work and thrift with the growth of the nation in the 20th century. The author attributes the word businessman to Lorimer, whose goal was to define what it meant to be an American and how best to take advantage of the many opportunities in the nation's classless society. Meanwhile, he tracks Lorimer's changing views on voting rights for women, pre-WW I isolationism, immigration, and other issues as the editor and his readership (mainly of young businessmen) became more successful and middle-aged. Cohn also documents the limits of the Post's influence on American political thought as Lorimer used his magazine to support his friend and contributor Sen. Albert Beveridge in 1910, and to campaign against Roosevelt in 1936. The author almost exclusively quotes only the magazine and the reminiscences of its writers, and while her thesis that the Post dominated Americans' efforts to define their nation may be correct, she thus fails to provide a wider context for the Post writings to prove it. (Kirkus Reviews) A fascinating and scholary look at a magazine that, for a time, wielded amazing power. . . . [Cohn] moves right along, mixing quotes with commentary in a sprightly, always interesting way. --New York Times Book Review Author InformationJan Cohn was G. Keith Funston Professor of American Literature and American Studies at Trinity College and the author of four other books, including Creating America (1989). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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