At Random - The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf

"I've got the name for our publishing operation. We just said we were going to publish a few books on the side at random. Let's call it Random House." So recounts Bennett Cerf in this wonderfully amusing memoir of the making of a great publishing house. An incomparable raconteur, possessed of an irrepressible wit and an abiding love of books and authors, Cerf brilliantly evokes the heady days of Random House's first decades. Part of the vanguard of young New York publishers who revolutionized the book business in the 1920s and '30s, Cerf helped usher in publishing's golden age. Cerf was a true personality, whose other pursuits (columnist, anthologist, author, lecturer, radio host, collector of jokes and anecdotes, perennial judge of the Miss America pageant, and panelist on

Product details

• Authors: Bennett Cerf, Bennett Alfred Cerf, Christopher Cerf
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.03.2002
• EAN: 9780375759765
• ISBN: 978-0-375-75976-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 203 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies