The publisher recounts his life among the luminaries of America's ""golden age"" of books and authors, including Churchill, Alan Paton, Loren Eiseley, and Albert Einstein, and surveys today's educational system.
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There is a dignity to Charles Scribner Jr's IN THE WEB OF IDEAS that is somewhat refreshing in the current of mass publishing. The heir of the legendary publishing house, Scribner did not rest on the family's laurels when his dad suddenly died in 1950. Rather, he went to work, and the first author that he entered into a professional relationship was Ernest Hemingway. Scribner explains what is was like to work with Hemingway in the best chapter in the book. Hemingway was interested in grace under fire, or character in the face of hardship. Says Scribner of Hemingway's writing, "What counted was what one was prepared to sacrifice for one's convictions, rather than what one gained by them" (37).Admittedly the rest of the chapters are not as not exciting as the Hemingway material, but they are solid and they give insight into the business of publishing. Scribner doesn't say it, but he implies that you must love ideas and reading if you're going to be a first-rate publisher.
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perhaps the best book of essays I have read in years!,
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Growing up in a publishing family was inevitably a bookish experience; it prepared me to take over the family publishing business, although in ways derived from my other early loves that neither I nor my family could have foreseen. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Modern Library, New Jersey, World War, Charles Scribner's Sons, Ernest Hemingway, Maxwell Perkins, Far Hills, United States, Scott Fitzgerald, Middle Ages, The Sun Also Rises, Thomas Wolfe, Oak Park, Scribner's Monthly, Sherlock Holmes, Beloved Country, George Santayana, Henry James, Isaac Newton, Paris Sketches, Princeton University Press, Sherwood Anderson, Wallace Meyer New!
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Growing up in a publishing family was inevitably a bookish experience; it prepared me to take over the family publishing business, although in ways derived from my other early loves that neither I nor my family could have foreseen. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Modern Library, New Jersey, World War, Charles Scribner's Sons, Ernest Hemingway, Maxwell Perkins, Far Hills, United States, Scott Fitzgerald, Middle Ages, The Sun Also Rises, Thomas Wolfe, Oak Park, Scribner's Monthly, Sherlock Holmes, Beloved Country, George Santayana, Henry James, Isaac Newton, Paris Sketches, Princeton University Press, Sherwood Anderson, Wallace Meyer New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway on 6 pages
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway on 6 pages
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway on 4 pages
- Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway on page 35, page 37, and page 174
- The Torrents of Spring by Ernest Hemingway on page 51, page 52, and page 196
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- Only Thing That Counts: The Ernest Hemingway-Maxwell Perkins Correspondence by Matthew Joseph Bruccoli in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Reading Desire: In Pursuit of Ernest Hemingway by Debra A. Moddelmog in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Sons of Maxwell Perkins: Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and Their Editor by Maxwell E. Perkins in Front Matter
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