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- catalog abstract "The fascinating, behind-the-scenes story of Reader's Digest and its founders, and how this beloved American institution lost its innocence when corporate lawyers and Wall Street wrested control from the men the founders chose to preserve their business "in the Wallace mode." Today a multibillion-dollar publishing colossus, Reader's Digest began life in 1922 in a tiny basement storeroom in New York's Greenwich Village. The magazine's founders, DeWitt and Lila Wallace, believed deeply in the American dream and saw their magazine as a way of spreading this belief to millions of their fellow citizens. But this is not a happily-ever-after fairy tale. In the early eighties, when the seemingly immortal Wallaces suddenly faltered, a shadow fell over Pleasantville as ambitious men began to scheme and maneuver for power. Much has been reported about what happened next, but always from the outside, through a veil of rumor and obfuscation. Now, in American Dreamers, Digest insider and longtime managing editor Peter Canning reveals for the first time the appalling dimensions of the struggle that consumed Camelot.".
- catalog contributor b9998525.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "But this is not a happily-ever-after fairy tale. In the early eighties, when the seemingly immortal Wallaces suddenly faltered, a shadow fell over Pleasantville as ambitious men began to scheme and maneuver for power. Much has been reported about what happened next, but always from the outside, through a veil of rumor and obfuscation. Now, in American Dreamers, Digest insider and longtime managing editor Peter Canning reveals for the first time the appalling dimensions of the struggle that consumed Camelot.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-361) and index.".
- catalog description "The fascinating, behind-the-scenes story of Reader's Digest and its founders, and how this beloved American institution lost its innocence when corporate lawyers and Wall Street wrested control from the men the founders chose to preserve their business "in the Wallace mode." Today a multibillion-dollar publishing colossus, Reader's Digest began life in 1922 in a tiny basement storeroom in New York's Greenwich Village. The magazine's founders, DeWitt and Lila Wallace, believed deeply in the American dream and saw their magazine as a way of spreading this belief to millions of their fellow citizens.".
- catalog extent "379 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "American dreamers.".
- catalog identifier "0684809281".
- catalog isFormatOf "American dreamers.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Simon & Schuster,".
- catalog relation "American dreamers.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "070.5/092273 B 20".
- catalog subject "PN4900.R3 C36 1996".
- catalog subject "Publishers and publishing United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Reader's Digest Association.".
- catalog subject "Reader's digest.".
- catalog subject "Wallace, DeWitt, 1889-1981.".
- catalog subject "Wallace, Lila Acheson, 1887-1984.".
- catalog title "American dreamers : the Wallaces and Reader's digest : an insider's story / Peter Canning.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".