The MagazineApocalypse ThenFrancis Ford Coppola’s descent into journalism.Feb 15, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 21
• By STEPHEN SCHWARTZ
 Three years ago an unusual volume was issued by Crown Books. It was signed by Cathie Black, president of Hearst Magazines, and titled Basic Black: The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (and in Life). Presented as a chronicle of how one woman broke through the glass ceiling to attain eminence in her career, it appeared to be an extravagant exercise in vanity publishing. Inspired, perhaps unconsciously, by the luxuriant fantasies and journalistic misadventures of William Randolph Hearst himself, the volume was distinctive in its design, as well as its notably disarrayed content. Cathie Black is known mainly for her work at women’s magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, Town & Country, and even O. So one might assume that the glass ceiling is more resistant to fracture than suggested. But Black also boasts executive experience with New York and, in the book’s jacket copy, “is widely credited with the success of USA Today,” where she was president and publisher for eight years beginning in 1983. To read more, you must be a Weekly Standard Subscriber We're Sorry,
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