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GET LIT: Win a copy of TIME: The Illustrated History of the World's Most Influential Magazine

POSTED: Thursday, December 2, 2010, 6:00 PM

Totally-giftable-giveaway alert: We know you've got an American history-obsessed relative who'd totally drool over the gorgeous glossy pages of TIME: The Illustrated History of the World's Most Influential Magazine (or maybe that person is you). Tonight at the National Constitution Center, Time magazine's current managing editor (and former NCC prez) Richard Stengel will give a talk on the mag's influence on American history and, conversely, its influence on the publication (6:30 p.m., free, reservations required, 525 Arch St., 215-409-6700, constitutioncenter.org). Here's what Shaun Brady had to say about it, in this week's Agenda section:

Everyone knows there's simply too much information from far too many sources these days. The modern news environment requires an aggregator to sift through it all and distill it for the casual reader. That's the M.O. for the Huffington Post and its ilk, but it was no less the case in 1923, when Henry Luce and Briton Hadden founded Time magazine with the same purpose in mind. The new Time: The Illustrated History of the World's Most Influential Magazine, as the chest-thumping title implies, traces the red-bordered weekly's evolution through three-quarters of the "American Century," from impudent upstart to founding father and into an uncertain future where seven days seems a news-cycle eternity. No doubt current managing editor Richard Stengel will speculate on that future as he celebrates Time's storied past.

To win a copy, answer the following trivia question:

One of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2010 is Lady Gaga. In a Time interview, who did Gaga say is the most influential person in her life?

E-mail carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net for a chance to win!

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