美国的杂志出版从１８世纪中期开始蹒跚起步 ,到第一次世界大战的时候 ,杂志的发行量和年度销售额就超过了图书。在两百多年的时间里 ,美国的杂志出版业提供了足够阔大的舞台。像富兰克林这样的政治巨擘、爱伦·坡这样的文学天才、洛里默这样的一流编辑、赫斯特这样的出色商人 Magazine publishing in the United States faltered from the middle of the eighteenth century, and by the First World War the circulation and annual sales of magazines surpassed books. For more than 200 years, the magazine publishing industry in the United States has provided a big enough stage. Political giants such as Franklin, literary genius like Alan Poe, first-rate editor Lorimer, and an outstanding businessman like Hurst