Reminiscences of Sherman Phelps Platt, Jr. : oral history, 1977.

Biographical Note

Publisher.

Scope and Contents

Childhood, education, Yale 1940; career progression in Dodd, Mead and Co.: production manager to president; history of Dodd, Mead; changes in publishing since World War I; advice to young writers; impressions of Winston Churchill, Agatha Christie, Roger Peterson, Frank H. Dodd.

Subjects

• Book industries and trade.
• Dodd, Mead & Company.
• Honig, Margot, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Platt, Sherman Phelps, 1918-
• Publishers and publishing--Interviews.

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