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Getting to the top in book pub-lishing has traditionally been aplodding and prolonged climb —and once you got there, you didn’tleave. Knopf has had four publish-ers in its 105-year history. Farrar,Straus and Giroux has been runby only two people since John C.Farrar, Roger W. Straus andRobert Giroux.

But over the last year, deaths,retirements and executive reshuf-

fling have made way for new lead-ers, more diverse and often morecommercial than their predeces-sors, as well as people who havenever worked in publishing be-fore. Those appointments stand tofundamentally change the indus-try, and the books it puts out intothe world.

The latest move came onWednesday, when Pantheon andSchocken Books announced that ithad hired Lisa Lucas, the execu-tive director of the National BookFoundation, to be its publisher.

“Everything is up for change,

and will change,” said Reagan Ar-thur, who was named publisher atKnopf in January. “Ten years fromnow, I don’t think anything willlook the same.”

With the deaths of industry ti-tans like Carolyn Reidy, the chiefexecutive of Simon & Schuster;Sonny Mehta, Ms. Arthur’s prede-

cessor at Knopf; Susan Kamil,publisher at Random House; andthe longtime Simon & Schustereditor Alice Mayhew, Americanpublishing has lost some of itsmost prominent leaders.

Not only did they define con-temporary literature, theysteered an industry not known forits agility through such seismicshifts as the digital revolution, therise of Amazon and online retail,the 2008 financial crisis, the riseand subsequent decline of Barnes

BEOWULF SHEEHAN/KNOPF DOUBLEDAY BOB KRASNER BEBETO MATTHEWS/ASSOCIATED PRESS MICHAEL LIONSTAR

LISA LUCAS Pantheon and Schocken Books

AMY EINHORN Henry Holt

DANA CANEDY Simon & Schuster

REAGAN ARTHUR Knopf

Plotting the Future of Publishing, Now Under New Management

By ALEXANDRA ALTERand ELIZABETH A. HARRIS

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Sea Change of Gender,Race and Sensibility

DEMETRIUS FREEMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Police officials say there were “isolated cases” of inappropriate force. But 64 videos show seemingly unwarranted attacks. Page A18.Protesters, Police and Video

WASHINGTON — The UnitedStates economy is headed for a tu-multuous autumn, with the threatof closed schools, renewed gov-ernment lockdowns, empty stadi-ums and an uncertain amount offederal support for businessesand unemployed workers allclouding hopes for a rapid re-bound from recession.

For months, the prevailing wis-dom among investors, Trump ad-ministration officials and manyeconomic forecasters was that af-ter plunging into recession thisspring, the country’s recoverywould accelerate in late summerand take off in the fall as the virusreceded, restrictions on com-merce loosened, and consumersreverted to more normal spendingpatterns. Job gains in May andJune fueled those rosy predic-tions.

But failure to suppress a re-surgence of confirmed infectionsis threatening to choke the recov-ery and push the country backinto a recessionary spiral — onethat could inflict long-term dam-age on workers and businesseslarge and small, unless Congressreconsiders the scale of federalaid that may be required in themonths to come.

The looming economic pain wasevident this week as big compa-nies forecast gloomy monthsahead and government datashowed renewed struggles in thejob market. A weekly census sur-vey on Wednesday showed 1.3million fewer Americans held jobslast week than the previous week.A new American Enterprise Insti-tute analysis from Safegraph.comof shopper traffic to stores showedbusiness activity had plunged inthe second week of July, in partfrom renewed virus fears.

Amazon on Wednesday ex-tended a work-from-home orderfor eligible employees from Octo-ber to January, and Delta AirLines said on Tuesday it was cut-

ECONOMIC STRAINSEEN IN FORECASTTHROUGH AUTUMN

BARRIERS TO RECOVERY

Uncertainty Grows AmidNew Cases, Layoffs

and Closures

By JIM TANKERSLEYand BEN CASSELMAN

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The Trump administration isconsidering a sweeping ban ontravel to the United States bymembers of the Chinese Commu-nist Party and their families, ac-cording to people familiar with theproposal, a move that would al-most certainly prompt retaliationagainst Americans seeking to en-ter or remain in China and exacer-bate tensions between the two na-tions.

The presidential proclamation,still in draft form, could also au-thorize the United States govern-ment to revoke the visas of partymembers and their families whoare already in the country, leadingto their expulsion. Some proposedlanguage is also aimed at limitingtravel to the United States bymembers of the People’s Libera-tion Army and executives at state-owned enterprises, though manyof them are likely to also be partymembers.

Details of the plan, described byfour people with knowledge of thediscussions, have not yet been fi-nalized, and President Trumpmight ultimately reject it.

While the president and hiscampaign strategists have beenintent on portraying him as toughon China for re-election purposes,Mr. Trump has vacillated wildly inboth his language and actions onthe Chinese government sincetaking office in 2017. He has criti-cized China on some issues, par-ticularly trade. But he has alsolavished praise on President XiJinping, pleaded with Mr. Xi tohelp him win re-election and re-mained silent or even explicitlyapproved of the repression inHong Kong and Xinjiang.

There are practical issues aswell. The Chinese CommunistParty has 92 million members. Al-most three million Chinese citi-zens visited the United States in2018, though the numbers haveplummeted because of the coro-navirus pandemic and the currentban on most travelers from China.

The U.S. government has no

China TargetedAs U.S. WeighsBan on Visitors

Focus Is Said to Be onCommunist Loyalists

By PAUL MOZURand EDWARD WONG

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President Trump traveled onWednesday to the new politicalbattleground of Georgia to blastaway at one of the nation’s corner-stone conservation laws, vowingto speed construction projects bylimiting legally mandated envi-ronmental reviews of highways,pipelines and power plants.

One day earlier, his Democraticpresidential rival, Joseph R. BidenJr., took a different tack, releasinga $2 trillion plan to confront cli-mate change and overhaul the na-tion’s infrastructure, claiming hewould create millions of jobs bybuilding a clean energy economy.

In that period, the major partycandidates for the White Housedisplayed in sharp relief just howfar apart they are ideologically oninfrastructure and environmentalmatters of vital importance tomany voters, particularly in criti-

cal battleground states, includingPennsylvania and Florida.

Mr. Biden is trying to win overyoung voters and supporters ofhis vanquished rival, SenatorBernie Sanders of Vermont, byshowing an aggressive awarenessof climate change and promisingto move urgently to combat it. Atthe same time he has sought tomaintain his promised connectionto white, working-class voters, es-pecially in the Upper Midwest,who swung to Mr. Trump fouryears ago and are leery of whatthey see as threats to their liveli-hood, especially jobs in the oil andgas industry.

Clashing Environmental ViewsDefine a Presidential Contest

By LISA FRIEDMAN and KATIE GLUECK

Biden’s Clean EnergyOverhaul vs. Trump’s

Regulatory Cuts

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CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. —Nikki Wilkerson was used tothinking of herself as the “smallbrown girl” growing up in ruralPennsylvania.

She has been eyed skepticallywhile out shopping and ques-tioned by the police for no clearreason at all. But she had resignedherself to keeping quiet about rac-ism, which her white friendsnever seemed to notice even whenit happened right in front of them.Nobody around here ever talkedabout any of this. It’s just what itwas.

And yet there one afternoon inearly June, right in the middle ofthe county seat, she happenedupon it: a crowd of white peopledemanding justice for Black lives.They would be joined by Blackhigh school students, children ofLatino farmworkers, “gays, lesbi-ans, queer, transgender, what-

ever,” Ms. Wilkerson, 34, said.“This was not the Chambersburg Igrew up in. I had no idea. All ofthese people are just coming out ofthe woodwork.”

The sight was inspiring, shesaid. But also frustrating. “Whyweren’t we doing this a long timeago?”

Black Lives Matter could be re-sponsible for the largest protestmovement in U.S. history, whichsprang up in countless cities andsmall towns after George Floydwas killed by the police in May.While the street protests have ta-pered off in most places, newlyminted activists in small towns

Protests Against Racism RevealHidden Diversity in Small TownsBy CAMPBELL ROBERTSON Wave of Activism Rises

as Neighbors LearnThey’re Not Alone

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Viola Davis is on this month’s cover, themagazine’s first by a Black photogra-pher — Dario Calmese, above — in animage meant to be a protest. PAGE D1

THURSDAY STYLES D1-8

Making History at Vanity FairA whistle-blower has cited conflict-of-interest rules over a Detroit museum’sacquisition of a rarely seen work. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-7

Uproar Over El Greco on LoanA sculpture of a protester, above, wasinstalled where one of a British slavetrader had been toppled. PAGE A9

INTERNATIONAL A9-11

A Statue Falls, Another Rises

In Nashville, only country music’s out-siders are dipping their toes in essentialconversations about racism. PAGE C1

Struggling to Meet the MomentAn Arab tahini magnate’s donation to agay rights group led to a backlash andthen a counter-backlash. PAGE A9

Israel’s Gay Rights Food Fight

High-end development has transformedsome Black neighborhoods decadesafter they were scarred by unrest. Howopportunists took advantage of bargainprices and prime locations. PAGE B1

BUSINESS B1-7

Riots Then, Luxury Living Now

Tommy Tuberville, the Republicancandidate for the U.S. Senate inAlabama, had a roller-coaster ride asAuburn’s head football coach. PAGE B9

SPORTSTHURSDAY B8-10

Trying to Win Off the Field

Ben S. Bernanke PAGE A23

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23

It was about 4 in the afternoonon Wednesday on the East Coastwhen chaos struck online. Dozensof the biggest names in America— including Joseph R. Biden Jr.,Barack Obama, Kanye West, BillGates and Elon Musk — postedsimilar messages on Twitter:Send Bitcoin and the famous peo-ple would send back double yourmoney.

It was all a scam, of course, theresult of one of the most brazenonline attacks in memory.

A first wave of attacks hit theTwitter accounts of prominentcryptocurrency leaders and com-panies. But soon after, the list ofvictims broadened to include aWho’s Who of Americans in poli-tics, entertainment and tech, in amajor show of force by the hack-ers.

Twitter quickly removed manyof the messages, but in some casessimilar tweets were sent againfrom the same accounts, suggest-ing that Twitter was powerless toregain control.

The company eventually dis-abled broad swaths of its service,

including the ability of verified us-ers to tweet, for a couple of hoursas it scrambled to prevent thescam from spreading further. Thecompany sent a tweet saying thatit was investigating the problemand looking for a fix. “You may beunable to Tweet or reset yourpassword while we review and ad-dress this incident,” the companysaid in a second tweet. Servicewas restored around 8:30Wednesday night.

The hackers did not use theiraccess to take aim at any impor-tant institutions or infrastructure— instead just asking for Bitcoin.But the attack was a concern to se-curity experts because it sug-gested that the hackers couldhave easily caused much morehavoc.

There was little immediate evi-dence for who conducted the at-tack. One of the most obvious cul-prits for an attack of this scale,

Twitter Accounts of Biden, Gates,Obama and Others Are Hacked

This article is by Sheera Frenkel,Nathaniel Popper, Kate Conger andDavid E. Sanger.

Brazen Scam SolicitingBitcoin That Quickly

Raises $100,000

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MAKING ITS CASE TikTok beefs upits Washington lobbying in a bidto preserve its future. PAGE A10

With his poll numbers sagging, thepresident replaced his longtime cam-paign manager, Brad Parscale, with theveteran operative Bill Stepien. PAGE A15

NATIONAL A12-20

Shake-Up on Trump Team

In the debate over free speech and race,a Harvard scholar is trading jabs withthose who call him insensitive. PAGE A17

Clash of the Intellectuals

The White House denies attacking thehealth expert Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, whocalls the criticism “bizarre.” PAGE A7

TRACKING AN OUTBREAK A4-8

Fauci Says ‘Stop This Nonsense’

Today, sun and clouds, more humid,high 79. Tonight, mostly cloudy,showers, low 68. Tomorrow, mostlycloudy, showers or thunderstorms,high 80. Weather map, Page C8.

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