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When we at TIME decided to issue a collection of Hugh Sidey's essays on U.S. Presidents, there was never a doubt as to who would be the publisher. A 1989 winner while at Harvard of one of our College Achievement Awards, Luke Ives Pontifell is a member of the extended TIME family. He received his prize for founding Thornwillow Press, an enterprise that is dedicated to issuing limited editions of exquisitely designed, hand-printed books. "The goal is to create beautiful, durable books that can carry inspiring events and exciting ideas into the future," says Pontifell, 23. "Today...
...leased his own letterpress, and Thornwillow was born. His first coup was printing historian William L. Shirer's memoir of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima. Since then Thornwillow has published works by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Helmut Kohl. This week it brings out The Presidency by Hugh Sidey. The book is available through Thornwillow Press in New York City; $300 leather, $75 cloth...
Pontifell and Sidey were delighted by the collaboration. "I had read Hugh's essays for years and leaped at the chance to print them," says Pontifell. For Sidey, meeting Luke recalled his youth as a printer at the Iowa newspaper his great-grandfather founded. "I consider Luke an adopted son," he says. Sidey believes TIME co-founder Henry Luce would also feel an affinity. "Luce complained each week about putting out the magazine, but when he got a copy fresh off the presses, he would lift it, smell it, riffle the pages. For a while, all was well with...
BUREAUS: Joelle Attinger (Deputy Chief of Correspondents); Suzanne Davis (Deputy, Administration) Special Correspondent: Michael Kramer Correspondent at Large: Bonnie Angelo Washington Contributing Editor: Hugh Sidey Diplomatic Correspondent: Christopher Ogden National Political Correspondent: Laurence I. Barrett...
BUREAUS: Joelle Attinger (Deputy Chief of Correspondents); Suzanne Davis (Deputy, Administration) Special Correspondent: Michael Kramer Correspondent at Large: Bonnie Angelo Washington Contributing Editor: Hugh Sidey Diplomatic Correspondent: Christopher Ogden...