One of the most important parts of this chapter, in my opinion, is one that is not explicitly stated. It is more of an idea or concept found within one particular person. Clay Felker embodied the skills and personality it takes to lead a staff. Clay laid claim to the New Journalism as well as the great invention, New Ambition. New York was dubbed “The City of Ambition,” because of the sense that anything could and ought to happen there. According to Peter W. Kaplan, Editorial Director of Fairchild Fashion Group, there is an identity for every New Yorker, and every New York Magazine reader, “out to eat, argue, screw, read, and politic themselves to a point of frenzy particularly because they were New Yorkers.” Clay motivated his writers and
