Look How a Highly Influential Magazine Helped Define Mid-Twentieth-Century America

Look: How a Highly Influential Magazine Helped Define Mid-Twentieth-Century America by Andrew L. Yarrow
English | November 1, 2021 | ISBN: 1612349447 | True EPUB/PDF | 384 pages | 16.9/56.3 MB
Andrew L. Yarrow tells the story of Look magazine, one of the greatest mass-circulation publications in American history, and the very different United States in which it existed. The all-but-forgotten magazine had an extraordinary influence on mid-twentieth-century America, not only by telling powerful, thoughtful stories and printing outstanding photographs but also by helping to create a national conversation around a common set of ideas and ideals. Yarrow describes how the magazine covered the United States and the world, telling stories of people and trends, injustices and triumphs, and included essays by prominent Americans such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Margaret Mead. It did not shy away from exposing the country's problems, but it always believed that those problems could be solved.