
My Pilgrim's Progress
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This new book by the author of Within the Context of No Context might be subtitled "A son of Roosevelt reads newspapers, goes to the movies, watches television, and tells us how 1950 got to be 1998." Trow takes 1950 as the year the Old World gave way to the New: Winston Churchill had just been named The Man of the Half-Century by Time magazine; George Bernard Shaw was still alive, and so was William Randolph Hearst. But before the next half-decade was out, the world represented by these powerful old men had disappeared.
To illustrate his points, Trow takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride through the New York Times of February 1950, from the thundering front pages where the terror of the H-bomb is making its first appearance to the early, sketchy, amateur television listings. He finds a piece of Television Personality Reportage in the paper -- a kind of proto-People magazine profile -- of the TV "hostess" and "guest" Faye Emerson, and notes: "As to World War II, the Germans lost, and Faye Emerson won."
The son of a tabloid journalist from an old New York brownstone family, Trow was brought up in the Deepest Roosevelt Aesthetic -- half FDR and half Walter Winchell. But he soon succumbed to the spell of Dwight David Eisenhower and the extraordinary/ordinary qualities of Ike's era. It is the thrust of Trow's book that both the Roosevelt authority and the Ike decencies are completely gone -- and where are they now that we need them more than ever?
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- Intro
- About the Author
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Part 1 - A Long Introduction
- Chapter 1 - Prelude and Dedication
- Chapter 2 - C-SPAN
- Part 2 - Folding the New York Times
- Chapter 3 - Folding the New York Times
- Chapter 4 - The Assumed Dominant Mind
- Chapter 5 - Intermezzo Following a Story
- Chapter 6 - There Are Four Kinds of Newspapers
- Chapter 7 - The Worst of the Worst
- Chapter 8 - A Photograph of 1956
- Chapter 9 - My Best Friend's Wedding
- Chapter 10 - I Mean Folding It
- Part 3 - The 1950s
- Chapter 11 - February 1, 1950
- or, Four Avatars of Kingship
- Chapter 12 - February 1950
- Chapter 13 - Faye
- Chapter 14 - Flair
- Chapter 15 - One Step, Two Step, Three Step, Four Step
- Chapter 16 - Hitch and Elvis
- Chapter 17 - The 1950s, Concluded
- Part 4 - Under the Aesthetic of Dwight David Eisenhower
- Under the Aesthetic of FDR
- Chapter 18 - Three American Tragedies
- Chapter 19 - I Like Ike
- Chapter 20 - Under the Aesthetic of Dwight David Eisenhower
- Chapter 21 - Under the Aesthetic of FDR
- Part 5 - For Further Study
- Chapter 22 - The Patriarchy in the 1950s
- Chapter 23 - The Three Caesuras
- Chapter 24 - The Future of Tabloid
- Chapter 25 - Let Reagan Be Reagan versus I Like Ike
- Chapter 26 - My Experience Behind Palace Walls
- Chapter 27 - Ronald Reagan
- or, A New Dawn for America
- or, I Still Like Ike
- Part 6 - Notes Toward An Overview
- Chapter 28 - My Pilgrim's Progress
- Part 7 - Epilogue
- Chapter 29 - My Life in a House in Flames
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