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Title: City Room by Arthur Gelb ISBN: 0-399-15075-7 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 09 October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: It could be subtitled "A Charmed Life."
Comment: City Room is a memoir of a person who loved his job and his city. Gelb traces his gradual ascent at the New York Times from ambitious copy boy to managing editor and corporate leader. He brings to this book wonderful stories of his love for the culture available in New York, especially the theatre, and the ways he worked to promote coverage of the arts.
The book is framed by two scandals; early coverage of the Holocaust in the immediate aftermath of World War II and most recently the implosion resulting from the journalistic sins of Jason Blair. In dealing with these problems and detailing the work on stories throughout his career as a reporter and editor, we see why and how the New York Times established itself as the newspaper of record for our times. It also chronicles the ups and downs of New York City and the Times' bond with the city.
For anyone interested in journalism or New York City, it is a delightful visit with a person on intimate terms with both.
Rating: 5
Summary: Why we are where we are today
Comment: It's great to see someone of Arthur Gelb's age and experience who has remained true to the very core of what reporting and journalism is all about -- keeping people informed. He outlines his rise from copy boy to managing editor of the Great Gray Lady, the New York Times, through some of the most turbulent years of the nation. He doesn't pull punches when describing some of his associates in those years, and I raised my eyebrows more than once at his descriptions of some of the giants of the Times. At times, his exhaustive attention to detail does bog the reader down, but he is peerless in his recollection and objectivity. He never hesitates to give credit where it is due, whether he liked the person or not. My one real criticism of this book is its complete absence of pictures. I would have liked to have seen a few of the people he so lovingly described, particularly those of his early years on the Times. But, like the paper he has devoted his life to, photos play a secondary role to the text. Definitely worth reading for anyone who wants to understand how the Times, and with it, the substantial portion of today's press, has grown and changed in the past 50 years.
Rating: 5
Summary: This Book Will Mesmerize You
Comment: Once I started reading City Room, I had only one regret--that I had to get my customary quota of sleep. Every night, I was tempted to forget the clock, and enjoy more of Arthur Gelb's enthralling story about his lifelong love affair with The New York Times. Yet the book expands far beyond reliving the development of a writer and his newspaper. City Room reflects the emergence of the nation during some of America's most historic events. Plus, readers will enjoy the author's stories about celebrities he knew, interviewed, entertained, and wrote about.
City Room will mesmerize you. I expect to remain under Athur Gelb's spell for a long time.
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Title: The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester ISBN: 0198607024 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Deadlines Past: Forty Years Of Presidential Campaigning: A Reporter's Story by Walter Mears ISBN: 0740738526 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Backstory: Inside the Business of News by Ken Auletta ISBN: 1594200009 Publisher: The Penguin Press Pub. Date: 25 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: A Life of Privilege, Mostly by Gardner Botsford ISBN: 0312303432 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek ISBN: 0316172383 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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