ISBN: 9780060505493 / Subtitle: A Tale of Genius, Betrayal, and the Creation of Time Magazine / Author: Wilner, Isaiah / Author: by Isaiah Wilner / Publisher: Libri / Subject: General/ Subject: United states / Subject: Periodical editors/ Subject: Editors, Journalists, Publishers / Subject: General Biography / Publication Date: October 2006/ Binding: Hardcover / Grade Level: General/trade/ Language: English / Illustrations: Y / Pages: 342 **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** This is a used hardcover copy in good+ condition. The DJ shows slght edgewear and chipping. The copy is clean. Binding bottom front inside cover is becoming loose. End mark. ***************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Publisher Comments: The Man Time Forgot: A Tale of Genius, Betrayal, and the Creation of Time Magazine reveals for the first time a media scandal buried nearly eighty years. In this groundbreaking biography, 28-year-old Isaiah Wilner shows that Briton Hadden, not Henry R. Luce, was the genius behind Time magazine. It"s the true story behind the first newsmagazine, which laid the foundation for the world"s largest media empire. Hadden and Luce were just 24 years old when they began work on Time at the outset of the Roaring Twenties. Their partnership was explosive and their rivalry ferocious, inspired by envy as well as love. A millionaire at thirty, Hadden died tragically at 31. The same day Luce began to bury the legacy of the giant he had never been able to best. Drawing upon never-before-published documents from the private archives of Time Inc., personal letters, and interviews, Wilner makes a convincing case that Hadden was the revolutionary mind behind the weekly newsmagazine. He also first dreamed of Life, Sports Illustrated, and the radio quiz show. Luce, long considered the most influential publisher in modern journalism, actively suppressed the evidence of his partner"s importance and claimed for himself the glories of Time"s success. The story travels from Yale"s famous secret society, Skull and Bones, to high-society Europe and South America, following the friendship of two brilliant and opposite souls who inspired one another to the pinnacle of earthly achievement. The young men emerged from the crucible of the Great War with an idea — Hadden"s idea — that shortly transformed the field of journalism. By making the news accessible and entertaining, Hadden changed the way we think about the world. It is not often that a writer of history succeeds in bringing the past to life. Isaiah Wilner does so in this stylish, passionate and provocative debut. The Man Time Forgot centers on the ancient themes of friendship and rivalry, triumph and tragedy. It is a story about the youth who shaped our modern era written by a member of a generation that will help shape the decades to come. Review: "Many who think of Time as a staid pillar of establishment journalism will be surprised to learn that, at its birth in the 1920s, it was an edgy, controversial upstart. Journalist Wilner revisits its development through this scintillating biography of Time"s founding editor, Briton Hadden, a Promethean figure whose contributions were, the author suggests, erased from the corporate history after his early death in 1929 by jealous cofounder Henry Luce. Hadden, Wilner contends, came up with the then novel idea of the "news-magazine," a national publication presenting the news (largely cribbed from the New York Times) in a highly organized, easily digestible format for America"s busy middle classes. He was also the originator of "Timestyle" journalism — news as a pageant of outsized personalities, punchy narratives, colorful details, Homeric cadences and sly, urbane drolleries, where "heroes and villains strode through the world, raising voices, slamming fists, firing guns" — which readers found enthralling and critics shallow and misleading. In Wilner"s telling, Hadden himself is a Fitzgerald character: a hard-drinking, perpetually carousing Jazz Age icon, his outward ebullience masking an inward despondency. The result is a perceptive psychological study and cultural history, with a touch of ink-stained romanticism. Photos." 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