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The Kingdom and the Power, a Common card
The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World is a 1969 book by Gay Talese about the inner workings of The New York Times, the newspaper where Talese had worked for 12 years.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 49
- DEF
- 23
- Power
- 72
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 3,900
Power 72 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 30 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The book was originally subtitled "The Story of The Men Who Influence The Institution That Influences the World." The book is credited with starting the trend of "media books" as noted by Portfolio at the New York University School of Journalism, books "portraying the inner-workings of a media establishment, turning the tables on the people who write and report the news, and making them the…
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The The Kingdom and the Power article was read about 3,900 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 49 and blocks with 23: each hit it takes is cut by 9 %.
How to get The Kingdom and the Power
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, The Kingdom and the Power (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : World Publishing Company, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
