The time of their lives : the golden age of great American book publishers, their editors, and authors

Along with houses that go back to the mid-1800s, Al Silverman covers American publishing's post-World War II newcomers, such as Roger Straus, who started Farrar, Straus in 1946, and Barney Rosset, whose Grove Press freed such banned authors as D.H. Lawrence and Henry Miller.

• Acknowledgments p. ix
• Introduction p. 1
• Part I The Newcomers
• 1 You Are What You Publish: Farrar, Straus and Giroux p. 17
• 2 Wishing for a Fair Wind: Grove Press p. 41
• 3 A Quest to Know More About the World: George Braziller p. 69
• 4 An Uncertain Partnership of Equals: Atheneum p. 86
• 5 A Most Unusual Cog in the Profession: St. Martin's Press p. 112
• Interlude: The Prettiest Backlist in the Business p. 142
• Part II The Survivors
• 6 Independent Publishing at Its Height: The Viking Press p. 147
• 7 The Curious Family Establishment: Doubleday p. 180
• 8 The Company That Was Always About Cass: The House of Harper p. 214
• 9 Give the Reader a Break: Simon & Schuster p. 244
• Interlude: Publishing Was in His Veins p. 270
• 10 The Place That Ran by Itself: Random House p. 273
• 11 Living in a Dream World: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. p. 307
• 12 A Father and Son Story: Little, Brown p. 341
• Interlude: Making Memoirs p. 377
• Part III Swirl-The Paperbound Rush to Life
• 13 Ballantine, Avon, Pocket Books, Dell p. 383
• 14 New American Library, Bantam, Fawcett p. 421
• Interlude: The Gothic Romance p. 438
• Sources p. 469
• Index p. 479