Publisher's Synopsis
A fascinating intellectual memoir telling the story of one of the world's most respected publishers and the tumultuous political times that shaped him. Beginning with his family's escape from the Nazis, it moves through his education at Yale and eventual appointment to head Random House imprint Pantheon where he discovered writers like Michael Foucault, Noam Chomsky, Marguerite Duras and Art Spiegelman. Schiffrin ultimately rebelled at corporate ownership and formed The New Press where he went on to set a new standard for independent publishing.
