Reminiscences of Thomas H. Guinzburg : oral history, 1980.

Biographical Note

Publisher.

Scope and Contents

Boarding schools; Marine Corps, World War II; Yale, 1946-50, staff of Yale DAILY NEWS; managing editor, PARIS REVIEW, 1952-53; father's career and founding of Viking Press; work at Viking, 1953-78, as president 1962-78: royalties, book awards, competition with other publishers, best sellers, purchase of Viking Press by Penguin Books 1975, corporate relations, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' work at Viking 1975-77; dismissal, 1978, future plans; reminiscences of his father Harold K. Guinzburg, William F. Buckley, Jr., John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Marshall Best, the Kennedy family and many Viking editors, employees, executives and authors.

Subjects

• Best sellers.
• Book industries and trade.
• Books and reading.
• Consolidation and merger of corporations.
• Guinzburg, Thomas.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Publishers and publishing--Interviews.
• Sheaffer, Louis, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Viking Press.

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