Some times in America
Subtitle: and a life in a year at the New Yorker
By: Alexander Chancellor
Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf ed
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Chancellor, Alexander; New Yorker; British -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography; Journalists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography; Journalists -- Great Britain -- Biography; National characteristics, American; New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel; New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs; United States -- Description and travel; United States -- Social life and customs
Genres: Biography
Description: "Brimming with gossip and humor, with minor tempests and huge embarrassments, this charming memoir of a modest Englishman's encounters with stateside culture in the fast lanes of Washington, D.C. and New York City wittily casts contemporary America in a revelatory, fresh, amusing light.".

"While Chancellor's experiences with power and peril among the politically and socially elite in the American capital have provided him with an abundance of lively anecdotes, they did not prepare him for life at the New Yorker, where at the unanticipated bidding of Tina Brown he assumed the monocle of the magazine's famous top-halted mascot, Eustance Tilly, and edited "The Talk of the Town" - not always to flattering consequences.

Under no other circumstances, however, could he have so intimately witnessed, or shared, the often exciting and frequently astonishing drama of Tina Brown's high-profile command at one of America's most august institutions."--BOOK JACKET.