This is the life story of a remarkable, self-made man, who grew up in Brooklyn. Carl Goldstein may not be famous, but he is well known in the textile industry. Despite not having a father figure in his youth, Carl demonstrated early on that he was industrious and willing to learn. He had many odd jobs, including summers working the carny circuit on Coney Island and selling ice cream on the street. When he got his first real job as a sample boy, he never looked back. He is the antithesis of Arthur Miller's tragic hero, Willie Loman. Today, he is a happy grandfather, who still makes sales calls...

In this book, Carl Goldstein examines the print culture of seventeenth-century France through a study of the career of Abraham Bosse, a well-known printmaker, book illustrator, and author of books and pamphlets on a variety of technical subjects. The consummate print professional, Bosse persistently explored the endless possibilities of print single-sheet prints combining text and image, book illustration, broadsides, placards, almanacs, theses, and pamphlets. Bosse had a profound understanding of print technology as a fundamental agent of change. Unlike previous studies, which have largely...