Darnton has established himself as the world's authority on the business of book publishing in the Enlightenment ... What is fresh, and fascinating, are the detailed case histories -- presented in lively prose by a scholar who knows more about them than anyone else. This is a study that anyone interested in the history of the book will want to read (and probably to own).
Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian, Emeritus of Harvard University, and the author of The Great Cat Massacre (1984) and A Literary Tour de France (2018), among others.