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United under the designation “the publishing industry,” magazines and book publishers have for more than a century participated jointly in the creation of authors. In the nineteenth century, book authors ranging from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Harriet Beecher Stowe and Edgar Allan Poe reached readers through magazines. Both Henry James and Louisa May Alcott honed their craft writing for theAtlantic Monthly. Ida Tarbell wrote her turn-of-the-century history of Standard Oil forMcClure’s, then published it as a book. Magazines’ significance to book authors continued in the twentieth century. Magazines provided writers not only a venue for developing their skills

In the years following the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision to integrate America's public schools, William Faulkner, Norman Mailer, Hannah Arendt, Robert Penn Warren, and, to a lesser extent, C. Vann Woodward, provided intellectual sustenance to southern efforts to resist racial integration. Focuses on Faulkner's political views and statements through the years. (SM)

[...] information on that subject cannot possibly help them to form opinions about needed social or political change or help them to cope with the exigencies of the period. . . . [...] the Supreme Court . . . has already made clear that the sexual life of even a public figure is outside the area of 'public or general concern' which is protected by the constitutional defense.

The most notable feature of the narrative arc of the American magazine in the two decades following World War II was a major discontinuity. After more than a half century of ascendance dating back to its commercial origins in the national advertising model in the 1890s, the large general-interest magazine lost its dominant position. The late 1950s and 1960s saw a major transformation of the American consumer magazine publishing industry with the emergence of a wide variety of smaller “special-interest” magazines focused on specific leisure and recreational subjects and aimed at specialized audiences. Competition from television, apparent mismanagement, and higher

At a time in the 1950s when national magazines might well have been leading the way to desegregation, they instead opened their pages to those who resisted it. \"Life\" ran southern white novelist William Faulkner's plea for the North to \"go slow\" in pressing desegregation on the South.

Polsgrove reviews White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations by Robert Vitalis.