James R. Gaines

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James R. Gaines (born August 11, 1947) is a journalist and historian, the author of several books and the former managing editor of Time, Life, and People magazines. Between 2011 and 2015 he was at

News Corp’s “newspaper” for tablets.[6]

He is the author of For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette and Their Revolutions (W. W. Norton, 2007);[7] Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment (HarperCollins, 2005);[8] and Wit’s End: Days and Nights of the Algonquin Round Table (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977).[9]

Gaines began his career at

Saturday Review, before moving on to Newsweek
, where he was a National Affairs writer.

A graduate of the University of Michigan, Gaines is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Historical Association, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Overseas Press Club, and the Online News Association.

Bibliography

  • Wit’s End: Days and Nights of the Algonquin Round Table (1977)
  • The Lives of the Piano (1981) editor
  • Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment (2005)
  • For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette and Their Revolutions (2007)

Footnotes

  1. New York Observer
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  2. ^ Peters, Jeremy W. "Reuters Brings In New Leadership". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  3. ^ "A Historied Time Inc. Editor to Step Down". The New York Times. 29 September 1996. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  4. ^ "Multimedia Magazine 'FLYP' Finds New Ways to Tell Stories Online". Poynter Institute.
  5. ^ Gaines, James R. (28 November 2009). "James R. Gaines, Proud to Join the Digerati". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  6. ^ "Delacorte Lecture with James R. Gaines". Columbia Journalism Review. 11 February 2010. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  7. ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions by James R. Gaines". Publishers Weekly.
  8. ^ Banville, John (January 8, 2005). "Review of Evening in the Palace of Reason". The Guardian . Retrieved December 30, 2017.
  9. ^ James R. Gaines. "Wit's End". Goodreads.
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