Thornton Leigh Hunt 1860s. Hunt was also editor of "The Spectator" from around 1859 to January 1861. James Buchanan was at that time President of the United States and was attempting to counter civil war over the issue of slavery, mostly by adopting a vacillatory position. Two Americans based in London - a businessman called John McHenry and an Assistant Secretary to ambassador George M. Dallas, called Benjamin Moran - determined to use the magazine as a counter to the generally anti-Buchanan position of the British press. Hunt had assisted Robert Stephen Rintoul at "The Spectator" and appears to have stayed on after
Robert Wilson (editor) "USA Today", where he was a book columnist as well as an editor. He was a founding literary editor at "Civilization", a magazine published under the auspices of the Library of Congress. "Civilization" won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 1996. In 1996, Wilson became the editor of "Preservation", the magazine of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Under Wilson, "Preservation" won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 1998. In 2004 Wilson briefly served as editor of the "AARP Bulletin", then became the seventh editor of "The American Scholar", six months after that journal had dismissed