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Chalmers, Floyd S.

A Gentleman of the Press: The Story of Colonel John Bayne Maclean and the Publishing Empire He Founded

Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969

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Year of publication
1969
Place of printing
USA
Author
Chalmers, Floyd S.
Publishers
Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Size
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Edition
F First Edition
Keyword
A Gentleman of the Press: The Story of Colonel John Bayne, Maclean and the Publishing Empire He Founded Trotsky Halifax, Maclean's Magazine Maclean-Hunter Ltd. History Biography, Biography
Binding description
J H Fair Hardcover
State of preservation
Good
Languages
English
Binding
Hardcover
First edition
Yes

Description

368 pages. Index. Black and white illustrations. "The colorful story of a dynamic, eccentric journalist, who started off as a $5-a-week reporter and became a publishing giant, by happening to be in the right place at the right time - with the right idea." - from dust jacket. Includes interesting chapter entitled "Battling the Bolshevists" which describes Maclean's part in attempting to restrain Trotsky at Halifax so he could not return to Russia.News clipping laid-in provides 1993 obituary of the author, who rose from reporter to editor of the Financial Post before becoming honorary chairman of Maclean Hunter Ltd. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Average wear to book which is clean and unmarked. Binding tight. A sound copy of this important Canadian biography. Book
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