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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 50. Chapters: Hugh Hefner, Emmett Tyrrell, Henry Luce, Glenn Beck, Dudley Leavitt, Willoughby Sharp, William Kristol, Barbara Morgan, Ralph Ginzburg, Jann Wenner, Rufus Porter, Walter Lippmann, John Yarmuth, Clay Felker, Daniel Stedman, Anthony Boucher, Paul Williams, Matt Kelley, Jack Lewis, James Gordon Lindsay, Frank Leslie, Sidney Perley, Ralph J. Gleason, Robert Kuttner, Tibor Kalman, Ron Garmon, Jane Pratt, Louis Rossetto, La Mamelle, Inc./Art Com, Jason Pontin, Jay Parini, Kurt Andersen, Bob Guccione, Jr., Edward Kramer Thompson, Christy Haubegger, DeWitt Wallace, Bobbito Garcia, John Ames Mitchell, Elissa Schappell, Kathy Keeton, David Lawrence, Frank M. Pixley, Leo Margulies, Nat Fleischer, Abraham Lubelski, Lila Bell Wallace, J. Francis McComas, Todd Zuniga, Elliott Stein. Excerpt: Connection Timeout Dudley Leavitt (1772 - September 20, 1851) was an American publisher. He was an early graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy in his native town of Exeter, New Hampshire, and later moved to Gilmanton where he first edited a newspaper and taught school. Within a few years, Leavitt relocated to Meredith, where in addition to teaching school and farming, he began publishing in 1797 Leavitt's Farmers Almanack, one of the nation's earliest farmers almanacs. A polymath, Leavitt poured his knowledge of disparate fields including mathematics, language and astronomy into the wildly popular almanacs, which outlived their creator, being published until 1896. The inaugural issue of 1797 carried the title of The New England Calendar: Or, Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1797. On the cover was the disclaimer that the new publication was "Calculated for the Meridian of Concord, Latitude 43 14' N. Longitude 72 45' W.: And with But Little Variation Will Answer for Any of the New England States." The Teacher's Assistant, and Scholar's...
