In Friendly Candor

A combination autobiography and memoir by "Ted" Weeks, successor to the legendary Ellery Sedgwick as the editor of The Atlantic Monthly. Includes an inside look at the magazine's editorial offices and book publishing program with Little, Brown & Co. from the 1920s through the 1950s, profiles of some of its more interesting or successful authors, and chapters on Weeks's hobby of trout fishing, the Cold War, and social justice issues.