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The golden get older of book publishing, Al Silverman informs us with utter certainty, started out in 1946 and lasted into the overdue 1970s and early on 1980s. In his intimate history of those years, Silverman models out to show this sweeping conceit by counting on the sight and ears and stories of the women and men who have been there creating that background. Without inhibition, more than 120 of the very most notable mind of homes, editors and publishers of this time shared many never-before advised stories about how the most important books in postwar America happened, and remain being read today.
In The Time of Their Lives we learn how …
-- Robert Gottlieb caused Joseph Heller to make Get-18, as it was then called, into the globally renowned Get-22…
-- Corlies “Cork” Smith took a risk on a shy son he had never heard of, Thomas Pynchon, after being absorbed by one of is own earliest short experiences …
-- Leona Nevler edited under fragile working conditions with a most challenging author, to make Peyton Place a book for all years.
It was Arthur Thornhill, Sr., in his years as president of Little, Dark brown’s grand publishing house who said about the job he cherished, “I needed to be part of something that was good,” his expression for publishing in the fantastic age. In this interesting and elegiac background, Al Silverman illuminates an interval in publishing that had not been only good, but produced a distinguishing landmark of culture in American life -- a fantastic time that certainly deserves a new life.
