1st Edition
Immigrant Publishers The Impact of Expatriate Publishers in Britain and America in the 20th Century
Edited By Richard Abel
Copyright 2009
216 Pages
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Routledge
222 Pages
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Routledge
216 Pages
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Routledge
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In the first third of the twentieth century, the publishing industry in the United Kingdom and the United States was marked by well-established and comfortable traditions pursued by family-dominated firms. The British trade was the preserve of self-satisfied men entirely certain of their superiority in the world of letters; their counterparts in North America were blissfully unaware of development... Read more
Introduction: The Impact of European Expatriate Bookmen in the Book Trades of Britain and America, Maurits Dekker and Eric Proskauer: A Synergy of Talent in Exile, André Deutsch: The Great Persuader, Kurt Enoch: Paperback Pioneer, Paul Hamlyn: “There Must Be Another Way ...”, Walter J. Johnson and Kurt Jacoby: Academic Press, Walter J. Johnson and the Scholarly Reprint, Andor Kraszna-Krausz: Pioneering Publisher in Photography, Walter and Eva Neurath: Their Books Married Words with Pictures, Robert Maxwell: Man of Dash and Determination, Champion of Dissemination, Frederick A. Praeger: Apostle of Anti-Communism Who Built Two Publishing Houses, Max Reinhardt: Shrewd Businessman, Publisher of Famous Authors, George Weidenfeld: A Publisher of Inexhaustible Vitality and a Renowned International Figure, Kurt Wolff and Jacques Schiffrin: Two Publishing Giants Start Over in America, Other Immigrant Publishers of Note in America, Epilogue: Migration and Transformation, List of Contributors
Biography
Richard Abel
