Author : Ezra Greenspan
Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 11,82 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Description
Chronicles the story of one of the great publishing firms of nineteenth-century America and one of the founding figures of modern American publishing. George Palmer Putnam played a central role in founding and running his publishing house and in organizing book publishers into a more centralized industry. Putnam concentrated the publishing activities of his house around a commitment to patronizing American authorship and improving the standard of American bookmaking.