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The Bookman (New York)
''The Bookman'' was a literary journal established in 1895 by Dodd, Mead and Company Frank H. Dodd, head of Dodd, Mead and Company, established ''The Bookman'' in 1895. Its first editor was Harry Thurston Peck, who worked on its staff from 1895 to 1906. With the journal's first issue in February 1895, Peck created America's first bestseller list. The lists in ''The Bookman'' ran from 1895 until 1918, and is the only comprehensive source of annual bestsellers in the United States from 1895 to 1912, when ''Publishers Weekly'' began publishing their own lists. In the April 1895 edition, ''The Bookman'''s editors explained the need for an American version of the already established London '' Bookman'': "''The Bookman'' has been a great success since its first appearance in London in 1891, and it is believed that there is ample room and sufficient ''clientele'' among the great multitude of readers, for a literary journal of the same character in America. The American Edition will ...
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James Montgomery Flagg
James Montgomery Flagg (June 18, 1877 – May 27, 1960) was an American artist, comics artist, and illustrator. He worked in media ranging from fine art painting to cartooning, but is best remembered for his political posters, particularly his 1917 poster of Uncle Sam created for United States Army recruitment during World War I. Life and career Flagg was born on June 18, 1877, in Pelham, New York. He was enthusiastic about drawing from a young age, and had illustrations accepted by national magazines by the age of 12. By 14, he was a contributing artist for ''Life Magazine, Life'' magazine, and the following year was on the staff of another magazine, ''Judge magazine, Judge''. From 1894 through 1898, he attended the Art Students League of New York. He studied fine art in London and Paris from 1898 to 1900, after which he returned to the United States, where he produced countless illustrations for books, magazine covers, political and humorous cartoons, advertising, and spot d ...
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Upton Sinclair
Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American author, muckraker journalist, and political activist, and the 1934 California gubernatorial election, 1934 Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party nominee for governor of California. He wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his muckraking fictional novel, ''The Jungle'', which exposed the fictional labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. In 1919, he published ''The Brass Check'', a muckraking Exposé (journalism), exposé of American journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the " ...
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Magazines Disestablished In 1933
A magazine is a periodical publication, print or digital, produced on a regular schedule, that contains any of a variety of subject-oriented textual and visual content forms. Magazines are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combination of the three. They are categorised by their frequency of publication (i.e., as weeklies, monthlies, quarterlies, etc.), their target audiences (e.g., women's and trade magazines), their subjects of focus (e.g., popular science and religious), and their tones or approach (e.g., works of satire or humor). Appearance on the cover of print magazines has historically been understood to convey a place of honor or distinction to an individual or event. Term origin and definition Origin The etymology of the word "magazine" suggests derivation from the Arabic (), the broken plural of () meaning "depot, storehouse" (originally military storehouse); that comes to English via Middle French and Italian . ...
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Defunct Literary Magazines Published In The United States
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Publishers Weekly List Of Bestselling Novels In The United States In The 1910s
This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1910s, as determined by ''The Bookman'', a New York–based literary journal (1910–1912) and ''Publishers Weekly'' (1913 and beyond). The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1910 through 1919. The standards set for inclusion in the lists – which, for example, led to the exclusion of the novels in the ''Harry Potter'' series from the lists for the 1990s and 2000s – are currently unknown. 1910 # '' The Rosary'' by Florence L. Barclay # '' A Modern Chronicle'' by Winston Churchill # '' The Wild Olive'' by Anonymous ( Basil King) # ''Max'' by Katherine Cecil Thurston # '' The Kingdom of Slender Swords'' by Hallie Erminie Rives # ''Simon the Jester'' by William J. Locke # '' Lord Loveland Discovers America'' by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson # '' The Window at the White Cat'' by Mary Roberts Rinehart # '' Molly Make-Believe'' by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott # '' When a Man Marries'' ...
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Publishers Weekly List Of Bestselling Novels In The United States In The 1900s
This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1900s, as determined by '' The Bookman'', a New York–based literary journal. The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1900 through 1909. The standards set for inclusion in the lists – which, for example, led to the exclusion of the novels in the ''Harry Potter'' series from the lists for the 1990s and 2000s – are currently unknown. 1900 # '' To Have and to Hold'' by Mary Johnston # '' Red Pottage'' by Mary Cholmondeley # ''Unleavened Bread'' by Robert Grant # '' The Reign of Law'' by James Lane Allen # '' Eben Holden'' by Irving Bacheller # '' Janice Meredith'' by Paul Leicester Ford # '' The Redemption of David Corson'' by Charles Frederic Goss # '' Richard Carvel'' by Winston Churchill # '' When Knighthood Was in Flower'' by Charles Major # '' Alice of Old Vincennes'' by Maurice Thompson 1901 # '' The Crisis'' by Winston Churchill # '' Alice of Old Vincennes'' by Maurice Tho ...
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Publishers Weekly List Of Bestselling Novels In The United States In The 1890s
This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States from 1895 through 1899, as determined by '' The Bookman'', a New York–based literary journal. Without the international copyright law which came into force in 1891, these volumes could have been printed and published by anyone, the change in this state of affairs made it possible to compile accurate sales figures.''70 Years of Best Sellers: 1895–1965'', A. P. Hackett. Page 91. Notable attempts to compile a list of best-selling books in the United States prior to 1895 include ''The Popular Book: A History of America's Literary Taste'' (1950) by James D. Hart. 1895 # '' Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush'' by Ian Maclaren # ''Trilby'' by George du Maurier # '' The Adventures of Captain Horn'' by Frank R. Stockton # '' The Manxman'' by Hall Caine # '' The Princess Aline'' by Richard Harding Davis # '' The Days of Auld Lang Syne'' by Ian Maclaren # '' The Master'' by Israel Zangwill'' # '' The Prisoner of Zenda'' by Ant ...
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Books In The United States
As of 2018, several firms in the United States rank among the world's biggest publishers of books in terms of revenue: Cengage Learning, HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw Hill Education, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, and Wiley. History In 1640 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Stephen Daye produced the first book printed in British North America, the '' Bay Psalm Book''. The American Library Association formed in 1876, and the Bibliographical Society of America in 1904. The national Center for the Book began in 1977. Types * American cookbooks * Astronomy books Bookselling Popular books in the 19th century included Sheldon's '' In His Steps'' (1896). 20th century bestsellers included Mitchell's '' Gone with the Wind'' (1936), Carnegie's '' How to Win Friends and Influence People'' (1937), Spock's '' Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care'' (1946), Harris' '' I'm OK – You're OK'' (1969), Woodward and Bernstein's '' All the President's Men'' (1974 ...
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The American Review (literary Journal)
''The American Review'' was a magazine of politics and literature established by the Fascism, fascist publisher Seward Collins in 1933. There were 71 issues published, containing articles, editorials, notes, and reviews, before the journal ceased operations in October 1937. Formation Before he founded ''The American Review'', Collins was editor of ''The Bookman (New York), The Bookman'', a New York-based literary magazine that had changed hands multiple times since its launch in 1895. Under his editorship, ''The Bookman'' increasingly reflected Collins's conservatism, conservative and pro-Fascism, Fascist political views. Upon establishing the ''Review'' in 1933, he ceased publication of ''The Bookman'', which he regarded as the former's predecessor. With the ''Review'', Collins made his political aims more explicit, intending to counter the problems he saw in American politics and economics. To do so he brought together the writings and opinions of four loosely compatible Tradi ...
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Fascism
Fascism ( ) is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement. It is characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or Race (human categorization), race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy. Opposed to communism, democracy, liberalism, Pluralism (political philosophy), pluralism, and socialism, fascism is at the far right of the traditional left–right spectrum.; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Fascism rose to prominence in early-20th-century Europe. The first fascist movements Italian fascism, emerged in Italy during World War I, before Fascism in Europe, spreading to other European countries, most notably Nazi Germany, Germany. Fascism also had adherents outside of Europe. Fascists saw World War I as a revolution that brought massive changes to the nature ...
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Distributism
Distributism is an economic theory asserting that the world's productive assets should be widely owned rather than concentrated. Developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, distributism was based upon Catholic social teaching principles, especially those of Pope Leo XIII in his encyclical ''Rerum novarum'' (1891) and Pope Pius XI in ''Quadragesimo anno'' (1931). It has influenced Anglo Christian Democratic movements, and has been recognized as one of many influences on the social market economy. Distributism views ''laissez-faire'' capitalism and state socialism as equally flawed and exploitative, due to their extreme concentration of ownership. Instead, it favours small independent craftsmen and producers; or, if that is not possible, economic mechanisms such as cooperatives and member-owned mutual organization, mutual organisations, as well as Small and medium-sized enterprises, small to medium enterprises and vigorous competition law, anti-trust laws to restrain o ...
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