SOME TIMES IN AMERICA

Chancellor, Alexander

ISBN 10: 0786707100 / ISBN 13: 9780786707102

Published by Carroll & Graf Pub, New York, New York, U.S.A, 2000

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Signed by author in black fountain ink on publisher's bookplate affixed to ffep. America may no longer have a special relationship with Britain, but it still has one with Alexander Chancellor. Nurtured during the war on American food parcels and American musicals, he grew up in England believing the United States to be some kind of paradise. But it was many years before he had a chance to verify this assumption. Certainly nobody could have predicted in 1944, when he was four years old and his father introduced him to American culture by bringing back records of Oklahoma! from New York, that almost fifty years later he would take up the famous monocle of Eustace Tilley, mascot of the New Yorker, and edit its 'The Talk of the Town' section. By way of Eton, Cambridge, Reuters, ITN, the Spectator and the Sunday Telegraph, Chancellor arrived in his first job based in America in 1986 as Washington correspondent for the then new British daily, the Independent. In the American capitol he explored the social life of Georgetown as well as party politics and the running of government. But it was Tina Brown's invitation in 1992 to join the New Yorker that sealed his fate. Protesting that he had never lived in New York (before anyone else could), Chancellor was persuaded to join Brown's high-profile take-over of this august institution. It was asking for trouble of course, but also reaped a harvest of news, gossip, humour and barrassment that make for irresistibly good reading. As new, first edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} A112.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SOME TIMES IN AMERICA
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub, New York, New York, U.S.A
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786707100
• ISBN 13: 9780786707102
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

A memoir of one man's love affair with America follows the New Yorker editor from is obsession with Oklahoma at four living in wartime London to his later career as a journalist in New York City.

About the Author

Alexander Chancellor is a freelance journalist who writes a weekly column in the Guardian. He was formerly editor of the Spectator and the Independent Magazine as well as a deputy editor at the New Yorker.