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This is an uncorrected advance galley proof of Jovanovich's book.
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"The Second World War intervened while Jovanovich was at Harvard, and he spent the war years as an officer in the U.S. Navy. After the war, Jovanovich studied briefly at Columbia University, where he was writing a dissertation on Emerson. Dropping out because of a lack of funds, he became a college traveler for Harcourt, Brace, and Company in 1947. By 1954 he was president of the company, which in 1970 became Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. When Jovanovich retired in 1991, HBJ was one of the largest publishers in the world.".
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Kurt Wolff (1887-1963) was a singular presence in the literary world of the twentieth century, a cultural force shaping modern literature itself and pioneering significant changes in publishing. During an intense, active career that spanned two continents and five decades, Wolff launched seven publishing houses and nurtured an extraordinary array of writers, among them Franz Kafka, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Boris Pasternak, Günter Grass, Robert Musil, Paul Valéry, Julian Green, Lampedusa, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
A special U.S. task force battles con artists, schemers of all sorts, and government bumblers as they attempt to launch a sting operation against several Florida banks suspected of laundering drug money
Presents a biography of the naturalist and writer, describing how his work stems from his loveless childhood with a mentally ill mother and traveling salesman father and his determination to succeed.
Shortly after World War II, John Sirovich, a rough-hewn naval officer, falls in love with Nancy Tuck Bowen, an Alabama socialite, and together they pursue fame and fortune in New York