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James R. Gaines

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August 11, 1947

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male

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History, Nonfiction

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James R. Gaines is an American journalist, author, and international publishing consultant who is best known as a magazine editor. He was the chief editor of Time, Life, and People magazines between 1987 and 1996 and subsequently the corporate editor of Time Inc.

Gaines is a graduate of the McBurney School in New York City and the University of Michigan. His career in magazine journalism started at the Saturday Review, followed by Newsweek and People, where he was named managing editor in 1987. He was both managing editor and publisher of Life, the first time that one person held both the chief editorial and publishing jobs at a Time-Life magazine. His reinvention of Life as a weekly news magazine for the first Persian Gulf War won widesprea...more

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Books by James R. Gaines

Average rating: 3.88 · 299 ratings · 72 reviews · 10 distinct works

	Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment 3.93 avg rating — 219 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	My rating:
	For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions 3.69 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Wit's End: Days and Nights of the Algonquin Round Table 4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1977 — 4 editions	My rating:
	12 Days In Ghana: Reunions, Revelations & Reflections 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	The Lives of the Piano 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1983	My rating:
	For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions [With Headphones] by James R. Gaines, Norman Dietz (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	University Physics 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	University Physics: Study Guide, Vols. 2 And 3 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	University Physics: With Modern Physics by James R. Gaines, William F. Palmer, William Palmer 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	University Physics by Hugh D. Young, James R. Gaines 3.83 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 1991 — 32 editions	My rating: