The Time of Their Lives The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors and Authors
by Silverman, AlFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-09-16
Publisher(s): Truman Talley Books
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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 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
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