The Life and Times of Los Angeles: A Newspaper, a Family, and a City.
Berges, Marshall.
Place Published: New York, New York, U.S.A.:
Publisher: Atheneum,
Date Published: 1984.
Description: STATED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 304 pages with index plus 16 pages black and white photos. The book is NEAR FINE with slight dogeared upper edges to pages 255-266. The dust jacket is VERY GOOD with dogeared inside front flap and chipping/tearing to edges. NOT price-clipped Comes with BRODART jacket cover. Dust jacket notes read: "With a daily circulation of 1,000,000 copies, the Los Angeles Times is not only one of the most respected newspaper in the world today, but also stands as the second largest general audience newspaper in America. Now, in celebration of its centenary, comes this delightfully engaging and candid story of its growth and development. Author Marshall Berges takes us back to the pioneering days of founder Harrison Gray Otis, who began the Times in a tiny printing shop in the then sparsely inhabited city, and who-like other press barons of the day-shaped his paper's editorial content to conform to his own sharply partisan views and to his vision of the growing metropolis. And from these sometimes shaky and often controversial beginnings, we discover how- under Otis' successors Harry and Norman Chandler, and then under the direction of Otis Chandler-the Times evolved from a provincial newspaper into an award-winning publication competitive with the nation's best. This is the story of the making of a total journalistic enterprise. The Life and Times of Los Angeles ventures out to describe the diverse workings of a modem newspaper: It reports what the newspaper business is really like, how stories-and journalists-are made, and it conveys an incomparably vivid sense of how staff members like Robert Scheer, book review editor Art Seidenbaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Paul Conrad, and columnist Jack Smith work. It is, finally, an exciting and thoroughly satisfying glimpse into the heart of the newspaper trade."
Edition: First editionBinding: Hard Back
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj
ISBN: 0689114273
Book Id: 6755
Price: $14.50
