Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Richard Abel is secretary of the LOGOS foundation and long-standing member of its editorial board. He founded and started numerous publishing house including Timber Press, Amadeus Press, and what is now Blackwell North America. He has had well over forty years experience in the publishing industry. Gordon Graham is founder and editor emeritus of LOGOS. He was previously chairman and chief executive of Butterworths. He has written extensively on the publishing industry, and is a doyen of publishing history and practice in the United Kingdom.

Reviews

-In bringing together these important essays, and in topping and tailing them with significant contributions of their own, Richard Abel and Gordon Graham have done us a service. It is precisely because they are presented together that we can see how these men and women so profoundly influenced the development of so many sectors of the publishing industry in the second half of the 20th century.- -- John Feather, professor, Loughborough University -This is an important book but only if it is read, not to remember these pioneering and daring publishers, but so that we won't forget them and what they achieved. I have no doubt that if these great people were still alive (a couple of them are), they would be exploiting the Internet and eBooks and all of the opportunities that this digital/electronic medium offers, but they would not abandon the printed book and journal. They lived and thrived at a time when we desperately needed them, whether we knew it or not, and reading these various essays and remembrances makes me glad that our lives and careers overlapped enough for me to say that I was, for a brief while, a small part of a chapter in publishing, librarianship, and bookselling that is all but over but not forgotten.- --Against the Grain, November 2009

"In bringing together these important essays, and in topping and tailing them with significant contributions of their own, Richard Abel and Gordon Graham have done us a service. It is precisely because they are presented together that we can see how these men and women so profoundly influenced the development of so many sectors of the publishing industry in the second half of the 20th century." -- John Feather, professor, Loughborough University "This is an important book but only if it is read, not to remember these pioneering and daring publishers, but so that we won't forget them and what they achieved. I have no doubt that if these great people were still alive (a couple of them are), they would be exploiting the Internet and eBooks and all of the opportunities that this digital/electronic medium offers, but they would not abandon the printed book and journal. They lived and thrived at a time when we desperately needed them, whether we knew it or not, and reading these various essays and remembrances makes me glad that our lives and careers overlapped enough for me to say that I was, for a brief while, a small part of a chapter in publishing, librarianship, and bookselling that is all but over but not forgotten." --Against the Grain, November 2009

"In bringing together these important essays, and in topping and tailing them with significant contributions of their own, Richard Abel and Gordon Graham have done us a service. It is precisely because they are presented together that we can see how these men and women so profoundly influenced the development of so many sectors of the publishing industry in the second half of the 20th century." -- John Feather, professor, Loughborough University "This is an important book but only if it is read, not to remember these pioneering and daring publishers, but so that we won't forget them and what they achieved. I have no doubt that if these great people were still alive (a couple of them are), they would be exploiting the Internet and eBooks and all of the opportunities that this digital/electronic medium offers, but they would not abandon the printed book and journal. They lived and thrived at a time when we desperately needed them, whether we knew it or not, and reading these various essays and remembrances makes me glad that our lives and careers overlapped enough for me to say that I was, for a brief while, a small part of a chapter in publishing, librarianship, and bookselling that is all but over but not forgotten." --Against the Grain, November 2009

"In bringing together these important essays, and in topping and tailing them with significant contributions of their own, Richard Abel and Gordon Graham have done us a service. It is precisely because they are presented together that we can see how these men and women so profoundly influenced the development of so many sectors of the publishing industry in the second half of the 20th century."
-- John Feather, professor, Loughborough University "This is an important book but only if it is read, not to remember these pioneering and daring publishers, but so that we won't forget them and what they achieved. I have no doubt that if these great people were still alive (a couple of them are), they would be exploiting the Internet and eBooks and all of the opportunities that this digital/electronic medium offers, but they would not abandon the printed book and journal. They lived and thrived at a time when we desperately needed them, whether we knew it or not, and reading these various essays and remembrances makes me glad that our lives and careers overlapped enough for me to say that I was, for a brief while, a small part of a chapter in publishing, librarianship, and bookselling that is all but over but not forgotten."
--"Against the Grain, November 2009"