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Description of Book
After a career of many firsts, Boyd shattered the color barrier of the white establishment’s most exclusive media giant, the New York Times, and became its first black managing editor.more

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Excerpt
Meddling. This was one of my primary responsibilities as managing editor. While the publisher buys the car, and the executive editor sets the course, the managing editor does the driving.

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“Gerald Boyd was an outstanding journalist of the old school… He covered my campaigns and Barbara and I respected his work, and his friendship.”
—George H. W. Bush, 41st president of the United States.