{"product_id":"the-paper-the-life-and-death-of-the-new-york-herald-tribune","title":"The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune","description":"\u003cp\u003eFew American newspapers, perhaps none, have matched the \u003cem\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e in the crispness of its writing and editing, the bite of its commentators, the range of its coverage and the clarity of its typography. The “\u003cem\u003eTrib\u003c\/em\u003e”, as it was affectionately called, raised newspapering to an art form. It had an influence and importance out of all proportion to its circulation. During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln went to great lengths to retain the support of its co-founder, Horace Greeley. President Eisenhower felt it was such an important institution and Republican organ that he helped broker its sale to its last owner, multimillionaire John Hay Whitney.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eTrib\u003c\/em\u003e’s spectacularly distinguished staffers and contributors included Karl Marx, Tom Wolfe, Walter Lippmann, Dorothy Thompson, Virgil Thomson, Eugenia Sheppard, Red Smith, Heywood Broun, Walter Kerr, Homer Bigart, and brothers Joseph and Stewart Alsop. At the close of World War II, the \u003cem\u003eHerald Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e, the marriage of two newspapers that had done more than any others to create modern daily journalism, was at its apex of power and prestige. Yet just twenty-one years later, its influence still palpable in every newsroom across the nation, the \u003cem\u003eTrib\u003c\/em\u003e was gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the story \u003cem\u003eThe Paper\u003c\/em\u003e, a 1986 finalist of the National Book Award for Nonfiction and winner of the George Polk Prize, tells.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Probably the best book ever written about an American newspaper. But it is more than that — a brilliant piece of social history that recounts in vivid and telling detail the changing conception of ‘news’ in America... The book is chockablock with marvelous yarns... And what a cast of characters Kluger has to work with... Some of the most vivid pages in \u003cem\u003eThe Paper\u003c\/em\u003e are Kluger’s portraits of these arresting personalities.” — J. Anthony Lukas, \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Monumental... with a narrative sweep that is always absorbing and sometimes breathtaking... What invigorates this history is Mr. Kluger’s enthusiasm for his subject, which is apparent everywhere in the loving detail with which he tells the story... and in the liveliness of the prose with which he profiles some of the \u003cem\u003eTribune\u003c\/em\u003e’s more unusual personalities.” — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Engrossing... if there is a better book about an American newspaper, I am unaware of it... 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