The Time of Their Lives The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors and Authors

by Silverman, Al

• ISBN13: 9780312350031
• ISBN10: 0312350031
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-16
• Publisher: Truman Talley Books

Summary

"The golden age of book publishing began in 1946 and lasted into the late 1970s and early 1980s. In his intimate history of those years, Al Silverman shows the birth of many independent publishing houses. More than 120 of the heads of houses, editors and publishers, shared many never-before-told stories about how the most important books in postwar America came into being and are still being read today." "This book illuminates a period in publishing that formed a distinguishing landmark of culture in American life."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Al Silverman entered the publishing industry in 1972 as CEO of Book of the Month Club, after working for Sport magazine for twelve years. Later, he became president and editor-in-chief of The Viking Press, then a part of Penguin USA. He has written several books since.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Newcomers
You Are What You Publish: Farrar, Straus and Giroux	p. 17
Wishing for a Fair Wind: Grove Press	p. 41
A Quest to Know More About the World: George Braziller	p. 69
An Uncertain Partnership of Equals: Atheneum	p. 86
A Most Unusual Cog in the Profession: St. Martin's Press	p. 112
Interlude: The Prettiest Backlist in the Business	p. 142
The Survivors
Independent Publishing at Its Height: The Viking Press	p. 147
The Curious Family Establishment: Doubleday	p. 180
The Company That Was Always About Cass: The House of Harper	p. 214
Give the Reader a Break: Simon & Schuster	p. 244
Interlude: Publishing Was in His Veins	p. 270
The Place That Ran by Itself: Random House	p. 273
Living in a Dream World: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.	p. 307
A Father and Son Story: Little, Brown	p. 341
Interlude: Making Memoirs	p. 377
Swirl-The Paperbound Rush to Life
Ballantine, Avon, Pocket Books, Dell	p. 383
New American Library, Bantam, Fawcett	p. 421
Interlude: The Gothic Romance	p. 438
Sources	p. 469
Index	p. 479
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