{"id":32934,"date":"2025-08-02T03:39:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T03:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbowe.com\/2025\/08\/02\/charles-van-doren-eb-vice-president-de-la-redaction-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T19:02:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:02:05","slug":"charles-van-doren-eb-vice-president-de-la-redaction-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbowe.com\/fr\/2025\/08\/02\/charles-van-doren-eb-vice-president-de-la-redaction-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Van Doren, EB Vice-pr\u00e9sident de la r\u00e9daction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1372.8px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\" data-scroll-devices=\"small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element awb-imageframe-style awb-imageframe-style-below awb-imageframe-style-1\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"561\" height=\"465\" title=\"Van Doren, Charles 1\" src=\"https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Van-Doren-Charles-1.jpg\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-31011\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Van-Doren-Charles-1-200x166.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Van-Doren-Charles-1-400x332.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Van-Doren-Charles-1.jpg 561w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1170px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 561px\" \/><\/span><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-container\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption\"><h2 class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-title\">Van Doren, Charles 1<\/h2><p class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-text\">La carri\u00e8re de Charles Van Doren \u00e0 l'Encyclopaedia Britannica a suivi le scandale du Quiz Show qui a fait de lui une figure nationale.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:40px;margin-bottom:40px;width:100%;max-width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-double sep-dotted\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:#005b8c;border-color:#005b8c;border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div style=\"text-align:right;\"><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat button-small button-custom fusion-button-default button-1 fusion-button-default-span fusion-button-default-type\" style=\"--button_accent_color:#ffffff;--button_accent_hover_color:#105378;--button_border_hover_color:#ffffff;--button_gradient_top_color:#105378;--button_gradient_bottom_color:#105378;--button_gradient_top_color_hover:rgba(255,255,255,0.55);--button_gradient_bottom_color_hover:rgba(255,255,255,0.55);\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/wbowe.com\/fr\/2025\/08\/02\/reinventer-lencyclopedie-sous-forme-electronique-2\/\"><span class=\"fusion-button-text awb-button__text awb-button__text--default\">Suivant<\/span><i class=\"fa-angle-double-right fas awb-button__icon awb-button__icon--default button-icon-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1 awb-text-cols fusion-text-columns-2\" style=\"--awb-columns:2;--awb-column-spacing:2em;--awb-column-min-width:100px;\"><p><div id=\"attachment_26913\" style=\"width: 204px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26913\" class=\"wp-image-26912 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Van-Doren-Charles-portrait-194x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Van-Doren-Charles-portrait-194x300.jpeg 194w, https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Van-Doren-Charles-portrait-200x309.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Van-Doren-Charles-portrait.jpeg 388w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26913\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Van Doren<\/p><\/div>\n<span class=\"fusion-dropcap dropcap\">I<\/span>n 1962, Charles Van Doren, jeune ami et acolyte d&rsquo;Adler, avait \u00e9t\u00e9 condamn\u00e9 avec sursis \u00e0 la suite de sa condamnation dans l&rsquo;\u00c9tat de New York pour parjure dans le cadre de l&rsquo;enqu\u00eate sur les jeux t\u00e9l\u00e9vis\u00e9s truqu\u00e9s de la fin des ann\u00e9es 1950.<\/p>\n<p>Signe qu&rsquo;il se tourne vers l&rsquo;avenir, Van Doren publie la m\u00eame ann\u00e9e un article scientifique intitul\u00e9 \u00ab\u00a0The Idea of an Encyclopedia\u00a0\u00bb (L&rsquo;id\u00e9e d&rsquo;une encyclop\u00e9die) dans l&rsquo;<em>American Behavioral Scientist<\/em>. Dans cet article, Van Doren soutient que les encyclop\u00e9dies am\u00e9ricaines ne doivent plus \u00eatre de simples compilations de faits (une critique de la 14e \u00e9dition). Il a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 qu&rsquo;ils devaient \u00e9duquer, ainsi qu&rsquo;informer. Il s&rsquo;est \u00e9galement \u00e9lev\u00e9 contre les encyclop\u00e9dies qui classent les informations dans des casiers artificiels refl\u00e9tant la politique universitaire, et s&rsquo;est prononc\u00e9 en faveur de la c\u00e9l\u00e9bration de l&rsquo;interd\u00e9pendance naturelle des connaissances de l&rsquo;homme :<\/p>\n<p><em>Il faut \u00eatre courageux pour ma\u00eetriser plus d&rsquo;une discipline de nos jours ; la bravoure n&rsquo;est pas totalement absente de notre soci\u00e9t\u00e9, et on peut donc trouver des h\u00e9ros. Mais l&rsquo;homme qui tente de trouver les principes qui sous-tendent deux ou plusieurs disciplines n&rsquo;est pas consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme courageux, mais comme fou ou subversif. Ceux que les \u00e9coles sup\u00e9rieures ont s\u00e9par\u00e9s, que personne ne les r\u00e9unisse !<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31015\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31015\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31014\" src=\"https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Van-Doren-Family-Mark-Dorothy-and-Charles--210x300.jpg\" alt=\"Famille Van-Doren - Mark, Dorothy et Charles\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Van-Doren-Family-Mark-Dorothy-and-Charles--200x286.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Van-Doren-Family-Mark-Dorothy-and-Charles--210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Van-Doren-Family-Mark-Dorothy-and-Charles--400x571.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Van-Doren-Family-Mark-Dorothy-and-Charles--600x857.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Van-Doren-Family-Mark-Dorothy-and-Charles--717x1024.jpg 717w, https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Van-Doren-Family-Mark-Dorothy-and-Charles--768x1097.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Van-Doren-Family-Mark-Dorothy-and-Charles--800x1143.jpg 800w, https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Van-Doren-Family-Mark-Dorothy-and-Charles-.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-31015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dorothy, Mark et Charles Van Doren<\/p><\/div>\n<p>L&rsquo;article de Van Doren sur la forme encyclop\u00e9dique a eu suffisamment d&rsquo;influence pour \u00eatre s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9, avec l&rsquo;essai de Vannevar Bush sur l&rsquo;Atlantique de 1945, dans la compilation de 1967 intitul\u00e9e <em>The Growth of Knowledge : Readings on Organization and Retrieval of Information<\/em>. Ce livre a \u00e9galement pris note des travaux th\u00e9oriques r\u00e9alis\u00e9s dans le domaine de la recherche automatique de textes par Gerald Salton du d\u00e9partement d&rsquo;informatique de Cornell.<\/p>\n<p>Lorsque Adler retourne \u00e0 Chicago pour rejoindre Britannica, il n&rsquo;est pas surprenant qu&rsquo;il trouve rapidement une place pour Van Doren. Van Doren \u00e9tait le fils d&rsquo;un ancien coll\u00e8gue enseignant et ami d&rsquo;Adler \u00e0 l&rsquo;universit\u00e9 de Columbia, le po\u00e8te Mark Van Doren, et Adler le connaissait depuis sa naissance. Comme l&rsquo;a dit Charles Van Doren lorsqu&rsquo;il a pris la parole lors d&rsquo;un service comm\u00e9moratif en 2001 apr\u00e8s la mort d&rsquo;Adler \u00e0 l&rsquo;\u00e2ge de 98 ans :<\/p>\n<p><em>Et puis il y a eu la fois o\u00f9 je suis tomb\u00e9, le visage dans la boue, et il m&rsquo;a ramass\u00e9, m&rsquo;a bross\u00e9 et m&rsquo;a donn\u00e9 un travail. C&rsquo;\u00e9tait le meilleur genre de travail : Comme il l&rsquo;a d\u00e9crit, un que vous feriez de toute fa\u00e7on si vous n&rsquo;aviez pas besoin d&rsquo;argent. Tout d&rsquo;abord, nous avons travaill\u00e9 ensemble \u00e0 la r\u00e9alisation de livres pour l&rsquo;Encyclopaedia Britannica. Ensuite, moi et beaucoup d&rsquo;autres personnes l&rsquo;avons aid\u00e9 \u00e0 concevoir et \u00e0 \u00e9diter la plus grande encyclop\u00e9die que le monde ait jamais vue.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>La source de l&rsquo;infamie de Van Doren a impr\u00e9gn\u00e9 le reste de sa vie, y compris sa carri\u00e8re de r\u00e9dacteur \u00e0 la Britannica. Au moment o\u00f9 j&rsquo;ai rejoint Britannica en tant qu&rsquo;avocat g\u00e9n\u00e9ral en 1986, Peter Norton a succ\u00e9d\u00e9 \u00e0 Charles Swanson en tant que pr\u00e9sident de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27071\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27071\" class=\"wp-image-27070 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1981100399-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1981100399-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1981100399-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1981100399-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1981100399-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1981100399-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1981100399.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1981 Charles Van Doren lors de sa f\u00eate de retraite Britannica avec les biblioth\u00e9caires Terry Miller et Shanta Uddin<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Lorsque j&rsquo;ai interrog\u00e9 Norton sur le temps pass\u00e9 par Van Doren \u00e0 EB, il m&rsquo;a r\u00e9pondu qu&rsquo;il avait entendu plusieurs fois une personne mesquine fredonner sous sa respiration Dum, Dum, DUM ! Dum, Dum, DUM ! quand Van Doren entrait dans une pi\u00e8ce. C&rsquo;\u00e9tait le son des tambours entendus dans l&rsquo;\u00e9mission t\u00e9l\u00e9vis\u00e9e tordue <em>Twenty-One <\/em>lorsque Van Doren avait fait semblant de se d\u00e9battre avec une r\u00e9ponse qui lui avait \u00e9t\u00e9 donn\u00e9e \u00e0 l&rsquo;avance.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26932\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26932\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26931\" src=\"https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/van-doren-and-stemple-21-1956-copy-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Van Doren et Herb Stemple\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/van-doren-and-stemple-21-1956-copy-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/van-doren-and-stemple-21-1956-copy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/van-doren-and-stemple-21-1956-copy-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/van-doren-and-stemple-21-1956-copy.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26932\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Van Doren et Herb Stemple sur Twent-one<\/p><\/div>\n<p>L&rsquo;apparition de Van Doren \u00e0 la c\u00e9r\u00e9monie comm\u00e9morative de son mentor Adler en 2001 \u00e9tait une rare sortie publique. Au cours des ann\u00e9es qui ont suivi son couronnement en 1957 en tant que nouveau champion du jeu t\u00e9l\u00e9vis\u00e9 truqu\u00e9, et son embauche peu apr\u00e8s en tant que \u00ab\u00a0correspondant culturel\u00a0\u00bb pour la populaire \u00e9mission nationale <em>NBC Today<\/em>, Van Doren a le plus souvent \u00e9vit\u00e9 les feux de la rampe. La grande exception \u00e0 sa disparition de la sc\u00e8ne publique fut bien s\u00fbr son t\u00e9moignage de 1959 devant la sous-commission du contr\u00f4le l\u00e9gislatif de la Chambre des repr\u00e9sentants. Ce t\u00e9moignage a brusquement fait de lui un paria pour la t\u00e9l\u00e9vision et a \u00e9galement emp\u00each\u00e9 son retour \u00e0 l&rsquo;acad\u00e9mie.    Par la suite, sa carri\u00e8re d&rsquo;auteur de livres avec Adler et de vice-pr\u00e9sident de la r\u00e9daction de Britannica s&rsquo;est d\u00e9roul\u00e9e loin des regards du public. Il avait quitt\u00e9 EB en 1982, quatre ans avant mon arriv\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<p>En tant que vice-pr\u00e9sident ex\u00e9cutif de Britannica et avocat g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, j&rsquo;ai parfois g\u00e9r\u00e9 un certain nombre de relations avec les partenaires du monde entier qui publiaient des traductions de l&rsquo;Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica dans diff\u00e9rentes langues. En g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, c&rsquo;\u00e9tait quand quelque chose dans la relation allait terriblement mal. Ainsi, lorsque j&rsquo;ai commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 m&rsquo;occuper d&rsquo;une violation des droits d&rsquo;auteur de l&rsquo;<em>Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica<\/em> en grec, je me suis plong\u00e9 dans les dossiers pour lire la correspondance et les fondements contractuels de la relation entre EB et notre licenci\u00e9 grec. Ce que j&rsquo;ai d\u00e9couvert, c&rsquo;est que je marchais dans les pas de Van Doren. Dans les ann\u00e9es 1970, il avait n\u00e9goci\u00e9 et conclu un accord tr\u00e8s compliqu\u00e9 qui avait largement profit\u00e9 \u00e0 EB et \u00e0 son licenci\u00e9 au cours des ann\u00e9es suivantes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31012 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Van-Doren-Charles-Time-cover-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Van-Doren-Charles-Time-cover-200x264.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Van-Doren-Charles-Time-cover-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Van-Doren-Charles-Time-cover.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/>Avec ce contexte en t\u00eate, j&rsquo;ai eu l&rsquo;occasion de discuter avec Van Doren apr\u00e8s les fun\u00e9railles d&rsquo;Adler. Comme j&rsquo;avais \u00e9galement travaill\u00e9 avec Adler au fil des ans, je lui ai dit que je trouvais qu&rsquo;il avait bien d\u00e9crit l&rsquo;homme dans ses remarques. Lorsque je lui ai dit que la version grecque de la <em>Britannica<\/em> dont il s&rsquo;\u00e9tait occup\u00e9 \u00e9tait toujours en activit\u00e9, ses yeux se sont illumin\u00e9s et il a parl\u00e9 bri\u00e8vement et avec enthousiasme de sa carri\u00e8re \u00e0 l&rsquo;EB.<\/p>\n<p>Hormis ses commentaires lors de la c\u00e9r\u00e9monie comm\u00e9morative d&rsquo;Adler, on a rarement entendu parler de lui au cours des ann\u00e9es qui ont suivi ses aveux humiliants devant le Congr\u00e8s. Une autre exception a \u00e9t\u00e9 faite en 1999, lorsque la promotion 1959 de l&rsquo;universit\u00e9 de Columbia a invit\u00e9 son ancien professeur \u00e0 prendre la parole \u00e0 l&rsquo;occasion de sa 40e r\u00e9union d&rsquo;anciens \u00e9l\u00e8ves :<\/p>\n<p><em>Certains d&rsquo;entre vous ont lu avec moi, il y a quarante ans, une partie de l&rsquo;\u00c9thique d&rsquo;Aristote, une s\u00e9lection de passages qui d\u00e9crivent son id\u00e9e du bonheur. Vous ne vous en souvenez peut-\u00eatre pas tr\u00e8s bien. Je m&rsquo;en souviens mieux car, malgr\u00e9 la brusque c\u00e9sure dans ma carri\u00e8re universitaire qui s&rsquo;est produite en 1959, j&rsquo;ai continu\u00e9 \u00e0 enseigner les sciences humaines presque continuellement \u00e0 des \u00e9tudiants de toutes sortes et de tous \u00e2ges.  <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Au cas o\u00f9 vous ne vous en souviendriez pas, je vous rappelle que, selon Aristote, le bonheur n&rsquo;est pas un sentiment ou une sensation mais plut\u00f4t la qualit\u00e9 d&rsquo;une vie enti\u00e8re. L&rsquo;accent est mis sur la \u00ab\u00a0totalit\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb, une vie du d\u00e9but \u00e0 la fin. Surtout la fin. La derni\u00e8re partie, celle que vous abordez maintenant, \u00e9tait pour Aristote la plus importante pour le bonheur. C&rsquo;est logique, n&rsquo;est-ce pas ?<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26916 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Van-Doren-Charles-NY-Times-Frontpage-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Van-Doren-Charles-NY-Times-Frontpage-200x250.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Van-Doren-Charles-NY-Times-Frontpage-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Van-Doren-Charles-NY-Times-Frontpage-400x500.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Van-Doren-Charles-NY-Times-Frontpage-600x750.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wbowe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Van-Doren-Charles-NY-Times-Frontpage.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lorsque Robert McHenry a commenc\u00e9 sa carri\u00e8re en tant qu&rsquo;\u00e9diteur EB travaillant pour Van Doren, il en est venu \u00e0 avoir une opinion beaucoup plus positive de Van Doren que d&rsquo;Adler<\/p>\n<p><em>Charles Van Doren \u00e9tait reconnu par ceux qui le connaissaient comme \u00e9tant peut-\u00eatre l&rsquo;homme le plus naturellement charmant de leur entourage. Beaucoup ont sans doute \u00e9t\u00e9 surpris de d\u00e9couvrir qu&rsquo;il pouvait \u00eatre tout \u00e0 fait jovial et aimable. Il \u00e9tait entendu qu&rsquo;il ne fallait pas poser de questions ou faire allusion \u00e0 l&rsquo;affaire du jeu t\u00e9l\u00e9vis\u00e9.  <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Quelque 40 ans apr\u00e8s la premi\u00e8re rencontre entre McHenry et Van Doren, alors qu&rsquo;ils \u00e9taient tous deux \u00e0 la retraite, McHenry s&rsquo;est arr\u00eat\u00e9 au domicile de Van Doren dans le Connecticut pour rendre une derni\u00e8re visite \u00e0 son ami et mentor de longue date. Cette visite a r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 une autre facette de l&rsquo;homme que l&rsquo;on surnommait \u00ab\u00a0CVD\u00a0\u00bb chez Britannica. McHenry se souvient : \u00ab\u00a0De mani\u00e8re tout \u00e0 fait inattendue, Van Doren a tenu \u00e0 s&rsquo;excuser aupr\u00e8s de moi pour avoir insist\u00e9 pour que son nom apparaisse \u00e9galement en tant que co-\u00e9diteur des trois premiers livres que j&rsquo;avais produits lorsque je travaillais pour lui.\u00a0\u00bb  <\/p>\n<\/div><div style=\"text-align:right;\"><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat button-small button-custom fusion-button-default button-2 fusion-button-default-span fusion-button-default-type\" style=\"--button_accent_color:#ffffff;--button_accent_hover_color:#105378;--button_border_hover_color:#ffffff;--button_gradient_top_color:#105378;--button_gradient_bottom_color:#105378;--button_gradient_top_color_hover:rgba(255,255,255,0.55);--button_gradient_bottom_color_hover:rgba(255,255,255,0.55);\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/wbowe.com\/fr\/2025\/08\/02\/reinventer-lencyclopedie-sous-forme-electronique-2\/\"><span class=\"fusion-button-text awb-button__text awb-button__text--default\">Suivant<\/span><i class=\"fa-angle-double-right fas awb-button__icon awb-button__icon--default button-icon-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:40px;margin-bottom:40px;width:100%;max-width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-double sep-dotted\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:#005b8c;border-color:#005b8c;border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1158,1150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5-emeutes-et-fusees-inventer-lavenir-eb","category-riots-and-rockets-menu-principal-navigation"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Charles Van Doren, EB Vice-pr\u00e9sident de la r\u00e9daction - William J. 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