The World Through a Monocle
The New Yorker at Mid-Century
Description:... At midcentury, The New Yorker (TNY) mag. occupied an unsurpassed niche of cultural authority, wielding a power without precedent in the mag. market. In this period a small but influential community of readers relied on TNY as a guide to the emerging post-war world. Here Corey mines the magazine's mix of journalism, fiction, ads, cartoons, and poetry to unearth a kind of New Yorker Village -- a locale of contradiction and delight, of self-importance and social justice. She exposes a mag. with blind spots in regard to women and to racial and ethnic stereotyping, but which nevertheless strove towards liberal ideals, publishing the work of Rachel Carson, John Hersey, Hannah Arendt, and others. "TNY cultivated a powerful cultural institution."
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