Reminiscences of Oscar Dystel : oral history, 1985.

Biographical Note

Publisher.

Scope and Contents

Family background; interest in Israel; childhood, education: New York University School of Commerce, Harvard Business School; business and political philosophy; early business experience: ESQUIRE subscriptions and publicity, CORONET editorship; World War II service with Office of War Information; postwar return to publishing: COLLIERS, FLAIR, PARENTS; leadership at Bantam Books: marketing successes, paperback revolution, changes in ownership, personal ties to company, sale to German firm Bertelsmann, conflict with Bertelsmann, resignation as chairman of Bantam; Oscar Dystel Fellowship at New York University; current experience in publishing and media: consulting, leveraged buy-outs, mergers and acquisitions; impressions of publishing today.

Subjects

• Banks, Ann, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Bantam book.
• Book industries and trade.
• Consolidation and merger of corporations.
• Dystel, Oscar.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Paperbacks.
• Periodicals--Publishing.
• Publishers and publishing--Interviews.
• Weyr, Tom, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1986. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information.