The Angry Decade: The Sixties; A Pictorial History
New York: Crown Publishers, 1979. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 8.75 inches by 11.25 inches. ix, [1], 324 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Afterword. Index. DJ is in a plastic sleeve and is price clipped. Organized by year. Accompanied by more than five hundred photographs, this thorough and lucid narrative covers the critical national and international events of this troubled and still troubling decade. Paul Sann joined The New York Post as a copyboy in 1931 and stepped down in 1977 after 28 years as executive editor. Mr. Sann was one of New York's best-known newspapermen. Before becoming an editor, he earned recognition as a reporter for his colorful, punchy style. The topics he covered ran the gamut from the slaying of Dutch Schultz in a Newark tavern in 1935, when Mr. Sann was a fledgling police reporter, to the Presidential campaign of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, for which the journalist took time out from his duties as executive editor. In 1945, he became a Washington correspondent but was brought back the following year as assistant to the executive editor of The Home News, a Post publication then circulating in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx. In 1949, the publisher of The Post, Dorothy Schiff, appointed James A. Wechsler as editor of the afternoon tabloid and named Mr. Sann executive editor, a position in which he functioned as a managing editor. He often wrote headlines and designed the front page, and wrote editorials in the absence of the editor and directed the Post's Sunday magazine. Mr. Sann resigned in January 1977 after Mrs. Schiff sold The Post to Rupert Murdoch, who brought in his own team of editors. More