The Great American Magazine: An Inside History of LIFE

By Loudon Wainwright III and Loudon Wainwright

Book Overview

The well-known columnist blends personal reminiscence, historical reportage, interviews, and social analysis in an authoritative history of "Life" magazine and its unique thirty-six-year history. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394459873
• ISBN13: 9780394459875
• Release Date: October 1986
• Publisher: Knopf
• Length: 443 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A blend of history and memoir

An interesting look at Life Magazine in an account that is part history and part personal memoir. Wainwright is clearly too close to his subject to craft an objective account, but there's still an awful lot of material who are interested in either _Life_ itself or in the history of magazines in general. Much fascinating stuff, such as the Clifford Irving hoax, the exclusive _Life_ coverage of the astronauts, and the JFK assassination.