Immigrant Publishers: The Impact of Expatriate Publishers in Britain and America in the 20th Century

ISBN-13: 9781138510814 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 216 str.

Richard Abel

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Richard Abel