Reminiscences of Robert Forrester Boger : oral history, 1956

Biographical Note

Publishing executive

Scope and Contents

McGraw-Hill and American business: changes from ownership management to professional management, the creation of a science of business management thorugh graduate business education, editorial responsibility, continuity; McGraw-Hill's three aviation magazines from 1945: creation of AVIATION WEEK and its editorial formula; editorial hierarchy and authority; definition of civil engineering; social consequences of building in New York City

Subjects

• Aeronautics.
• Aviation.
• Boger, Robert Forrester, 1900-1968.
• Executives--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• McGraw-Hill, inc.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Periodicals--Publishing.
• Phillips, Harlan B., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Publishers and publishing--Interviews.