Columbia Journalism Review, May 1st, 1995
BY THOMAS KUNKEL RANDOM HOUSE 498 PP. $25. This is the best and the worst book about Harold Ross, the country bumpkin who founded The New Yorker just seventy years ago. It's the best in an academic sense: Thomas Kunkel, himself an itinerant journalist, is the first biographer to take the full measure of his subject, studying the literature, exploring the archives, quizzing witnesses. It's the worst in that Kunkel's text cries out for an editor like Ross, who would have spattered it with marginalia such as "What mean?" "Fix," and even "ga," a frantic squiggle signifying incoherent disgust. Equ...
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