In Living The Ebony Life: E-Mails From The Plantation, Ebony magazine alum Zondra Hughes delivers a hilarious narrative-backed by authentic e-mails, memos, and grainy 'surveillance' photos-of the outrageous office politics that ultimately derailed the No. 1 Black Magazine in the world. The author scores with a disarming, 'tell-it-like-it-was' perspective of her days inside the Ebony editorial department-AKA The Plantation-and makes the case that new media didn't slay Ebony magazine; bad management did. About The Author Zondra Hughes made her literary debut on the outrageous and over-the-top Wendy Williams smash hit, Ritz Harper Goes to Hollywood! (Pocket Books/Karen Hunter Publishing). Zondra's second novel, The M.O.O.D. Lounge, will be released under Karen Hunter Media. The author resides in Chicago.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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A biz colleague, Matt Sapaula, included this title on his list of top 10 biz books and I was compelled to read it.
This book and the e-mails within are a potent reminder of all that can go wrong when one bad manager has complete control. Thumbs up to the author--may your chutzpah become contagious.
This book and the e-mails within are a potent reminder of all that can go wrong when one bad manager has complete control. Thumbs up to the author--may your chutzpah become contagious.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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I read the book. I first want to applaude the writer for having the drive that it takes to write a book. On that she gets two stars. However, the writing quality of the book was incredibly poor. It read like something from a high school freshman lit class. The book, if you can actually call it that, really is about 30 pages of text formated so that covers the 100 plus pages that it took up. I think I read the entire book in about 20 minutes. The emails were nothing that amazing if one has worked in any corporate enviroment of any size. The story as told did not capture my interest at all. I was not given any reason to root or care for the writer and her problem. It just came across as a young, semi-entitled thin-skinned journalist. The use of the term plantation is interesting. On plantations the labor was free but the plantation were not very productive enterprises. She, unlike plantation workers was compensated but from my perspective was not very productive in the quality of her writing if the book reflects her talents. Sorry, just how I saw it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Ms. Hughes' memoir of her years at Ebony Magazine are very interesting. She gives us behind-the-scenes, insider information and it actually let me see why the magazine's appeal has dwindled. The upper management was so interested in micro-managing the minor things that they failed to see the changes occuring in the industry and therefore didn't keep up. They also seemed to feel the Black readership would always support them---even if they were giving sub-par quality magazines. Kind of sad, but at least we know what was going on.
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I very much enjoyed reading this book. It gave me a entirely new view of Ebony magazine and honestly made me rethink if I want to continue purchasing the magazine. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Paula Johnson
Popcorn necessary for this read!
I must first applaud the author for branching out and being honest in her writings, and for telling the truth. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Dawgelene Sangster
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