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Plot Summary of City Room
"Former New York Times managing editor Arthur Gelb has written a captivating memoir of his nearly half-century with the Paper of Record.

An insider's look at the latter half of the 20th century from the perspective of one of the busiest newsrooms in the world, City Room is a primer for anyone who has even thought of making a career in journalism and a fascinating romp through America's world emergence for the rest of us.

From D-Day through Reaganomics, Gelb witnessed it all as a newsman. "

Ian Schwartz, Resident Scholar

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Plot
job/profession: - journalist/editor
Job/profession/poverty story Yes
Period of greatest activity? - 1950+

Subject of Biography
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - journalist
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Biography of famous person? Yes
Ethnicity - White
Nationality - American (!)
How sensitive is this person? - sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence - Smarter than most other people
Physique - average physique

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 9 (quite a lot)

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Is book humorous? Yes
If humorous, kind of humor - gentle
Writer's slant towards subject: - favorable
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