Web Letters: Reading in an Age of Depression

By Tom Engelhardt

December 18, 2008

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  • I am reminded of the description by Theodore White of his time at Colliers' Magazine in the mid-1950s, and of their inability to adjust mentally to the idea that TV was taking away just about their entire advertising base.

    Great article! Might have made a good book.

    John D. Froelich

    Upper Darby, PA

    12/19/2008 @ 12:53pm


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