The world through a monocle : the New Yorker at midcentury /

The world through a monocle : the New Yorker at midcentury / Mary F. Corey.

At midcentury, The New Yorker magazine occupied an unsurpassed niche of cultural authority, wielding a power without precedent in the magazine market. In this period a small but influential community of readers relied on The New Yorker as a guide to the emerging postwar world, turning to it for info...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Corey, Mary F.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
Subjects:
New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925) > History.
Periodicals > Publishing > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Social life and customs > 1945-1970.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: First Things
  • 1. The Lay of the Land
  • 2. Beyond the Manhattan Skyline
  • 3. Red Hunting and the New Yorker Village
  • 4. Slouching toward Anti-Communism
  • 5. The New Yorker in Black and White
  • 6. The Romance of the Other
  • 7. Managing with Servants
  • 8. The War between Men and Women
  • 9. Goods and Goodness
  • Conclusion: Fault Lines.

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