by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 12, 2013 | Alvin Josephy, American Heritage, American Heritage Book of Indians, American Indians, de Oviedo, John F. Kennedy
Alvin Josephy knew the people who had taken over American Heritage Magazinein 1954 and turned it into a profitable hard cover edition of well written and researched articles on American history. He wrote several articles for them, including the piece on “Chief Joseph...
by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 1, 2012 | American Heritage, David McCullough, High Country News, Jackson Hole Institute, Narrative history, Time Magazine
Always, for Alvin, “story” was the important notion in “history.” He insisted on accuracy, trusted the testimony of individuals, and was disgusted by some of the stilted prose and arcane argument of the academics. He loved the idea of history permeating our lives. And...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 16, 2011 | Alvin Josephy, American Heritage, New York Westerners, Wallowa County, Wallowa County Museum
Alvin Josephy loved amateur historians. When I opened the Bookloft in Enterprise in 1976, he was still working full time at American Heritage in New York City, writing his big history books and newspaper and magazine articles in the midnight hours. He and his wife,...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 6, 2011 | Alvin Josephy, American Heritage, Joe Thorndike, John Thorndike, Sun Magazine
Rick Bombaci stopped by to bring me a Sun Magazine, August 2010, with an article by John Thorndike about caring for his aging father, Joe Thorndike. Rick mentioned that Joe must have overlapped with Alvin, as Thorndike senior edited the Harvard Crimson in 1934, worked...
