Perhaps the first incarnation of the now popular stereotype of an uncompromising magazine editor, as caricatured in The Devil Wears Prada, was Edna Woolman Chase, who began to mould the Vogue we know now in the 1910s and set a strict dress code for her female employees that included hats, white gloves and silk stockings.
Long before those editorships, he had won a reputation for being a tough news editor with an uncompromising desire for journalistic scoops.
Rolling Stone managing editor Will Dana also remembered Hastings' uncompromising, aggressive reporting style.
The editors of The Revolution, however, boldly declared its uncompromising position in the paper's masthead: "Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less".
Hetherington - still not yet officially editor - immediately sat down and wrote the most uncompromising leader, which began with an unforgettable flourish: "The Anglo-French ultimatum to Egypt is an act of folly, without justification in any terms but brief expediency.
Ultimately, it is not just up to greater vigilance by reviewers and editors, but it starts within ourselves to be uncompromising in maintaining the highest possible standards in our conduct for scientific research.
Jonathan Ruppin, web editor of Foyles bookshops, said James's book was: "Visceral and uncompromising … but it's also an ingeniously structured feat of storytelling that draws the reader in with its eye-catching use of language.
Speaking at the seminar in London, the former editor of the News of the World, Phil Hall, said "it is a tough, uncompromising, stressful and an extremely competitive business".
A few Saturdays ago, in the thick of New York's Fashion Week, Mickey Boardman, an editor at Paper and a fellow known around town for his open-minded, if uncompromising, approach to personal style, broke away from the rarefied world of the runways to visit H&M (640 Fifth Ave . 489-0390), the breathtakingly inexpensive Swedish department store diagonally across the street from Cartier.
The editor's illuminating biographical summaries set out useful links from decade to decade, but it is Scholem's uncompromising voice that gives this volume its unified force and striking crescendos.
