Time of Their Lives: The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors, and Authors
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This will be the definitive book on book publishing in America. Here are notable editors and colorful publishers narrating vivid experiences with books, authors, and their great successes and occasional flops. Included is much new material on the advent of book clubs as well as pioneers who created the paperback revolution. The New York Times - Bruce Jay Friedman Silverman, with the help of his sprightly crew of old-timers, has sketched out a profile of the great houses and the bookmen who gave each one a distinctive character…over all, this is a wonderful book, filled with anecdotal treasures. It could have been written only by a "bookman," someone with printer's ink in his blood and bones. We're often told that books are on their way out. Don't say this to Silverman.
