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Nothing random Bennett Cerf and the publishing house he built

"At midcentury, everyone knew Bennett Cerf: witty, beloved, middle-aged panelist on What's My Line?, whom TV brought into America's homes each week. They didn't know the handsome, driven young man of the 1920s who'd vowed to become a great publisher, and a decade later, was. By then, he'd signed Eug...

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Main Author: Feldman, Gayle (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Random House, [2026]
Edition:First edition.
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Cerf, Bennett, > 1898-1971
Publishers and publishing > United States > Biography.
Popular culture > United States > 20th century.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part One 1898-1919, A Rather Unusual Specimen: Inheritance
  • A Pretty Smart Kid
  • Columbia
  • Part Two 1920-1940, From Playboy of the Western World to Man of Property: Love Wrong
  • Liveright
  • The Book Boys
  • Embarkations
  • "The Random House"
  • They Float
  • Dentist, Patient-and Publisher
  • One-Book Odyssey
  • Daring Young Men
  • Glamour Girls
  • Ready for the Big Things
  • For Love or Money
  • Part Three 1941-1951, Try and Stop Me: Patriotism and Profit
  • Mr. Chirp in the Lyons Den
  • Golden Era for a Brownstone Palace
  • A New Voice, Another Home
  • Friends and Enemies
  • Some Kind of Progress
  • A Horse for a Long Race
  • Midcentury
  • What's Not His Line
  • Gatsby in Paradise
  • Part Four 1952-1959, "And the Mystery Guest Is...": What's New
  • Bombshells and Whoppers
  • Transitions and Home Truths
  • Energy
  • Families and Fieldtrips
  • Feds and Nymphets
  • Ideal Publisher
  • Party Cats and Cats in Hats
  • Hellos and Goodbyes
  • Everything Public
  • Two Acts, One Finale
  • Part Five 1960-1971, Real Business: Knopfs
  • Grow or Die
  • Appetites and Digestion
  • Go Down, Goodbye
  • Heartburn and Heartache
  • Red Hot Fun
  • Divorces and Disagreements
  • Backing Horses
  • Big Money, Different Equations
  • Big Business
  • Successor and Sale
  • Sinatra
  • Done Deal
  • Blood Red and Black/White
  • Interventions
  • Turbulence
  • Making It
  • Exits and Entrances
  • Confessions and Controversies
  • Palace to Tower Block
  • Famous and Fading
  • Epilogue: Revolving Doors.

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