Adam McKible, Circulating Jim Crow: The Saturday Evening Post and the War Against Black Modernity
Today, most people probably do not recall George Horace Lorimer’s name. Those who do may remember him as the towering editor of the Saturday Evening Post, who hired Norman Rockwell as an illustrator, managed to raise the circulation of the magazine to millions of subscribers, and published the earl...
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E-rea
2024
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| Sumari: | Today, most people probably do not recall George Horace Lorimer’s name. Those who do may remember him as the towering editor of the Saturday Evening Post, who hired Norman Rockwell as an illustrator, managed to raise the circulation of the magazine to millions of subscribers, and published the early short stories of writers such as William Faulkner, Francis Scott Fitzgerald or Willa Cather. Lorimer’s editorship lasted from 1899 to 1936, a period in which he exercised “absolute control over h... |
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