Powerful People: From Mao to Now, a Reporter's Fifty-Year Pursuit of - Hardcover

Powerful People: From Mao to Now, a Reporter's Fifty-Year Pursuit of.

Hardcover. Zustand: good. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 300 pages, illus., marginal ink tick marks or lines in margins of a few pages. Signed by the author. A few page corners have been folded, some writing on flyleaf (former owner's information? ) has been blacked out, pencil earasure at rear board.At the age of 12, he began writing, editing, and publishing a four-page, mimeographed neighborhood newspaper, a venture that sparked an ambition to become a journalist. Rowan graduated from Dartmouth College in 1941, and received his MBA from Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business in April 1942. Drafted into the US Army the following month, one of this first duties was to escort Italian Prisoners of War back from North Africa on an Army Liberty ship. In 1946, unable to secure a job as a foreign correspondent, Rowan joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) during the Chinese Civil War between Mao Zedong's Communists and Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists. There he also began photographing and writing freelance articles about the conflict, sending his pictures and articles back to major magazines in the United States in the hope of establishing himself as a journalist. Shortly before leaving Shanghai in December 1947, the Time-Life bureau chief approached him and informed him that Life magazine had printed several of his photographs and asked if Rowan could write an article on the war in Henan Province. The next month, Life hired him as their China and Southeast Asia correspondent. Rowan then covered all the major battles of China's Civil War leading up to the fall of Shanghai in May 1949. Following the Communist takeover, Rowan served as Life bureau chief in Hong Kong, Rome, Tokyo (mainly as a war correspondent in Korea), Bonn (covering the Cold War in Europe), and Chicago. In 1961 Rowan was transferred to New York City and appointed Life's assistant managing editor in charge of the magazine's worldwide news coverage. When JFK was assassinated in 1963, he was having lunch with the company's editor-in-chief, Henry Luce, who ordered him to fly out to the printing plant in Chicago to stop the presses and remake the magazine, using the now-famous Zapruder film that pictured the actual shooting of the president.In 1977, Rowan left Time and became a senior writer for Fortune Magazine. Between then and his retirement in 1985, he wrote more than 65 major articles for the magazine, including an exclusive 15-page report on the "Top 50 Mafia Bosses in America.". He "retired" in 1985 but continued to write two or three Fortune articles a year, as well as his second book, The Intuitive Manager in 1986. His third book, Powerful People, was published in 1996, very good. minor edge wear to DJ. Artikel-Nr. 20745

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