Nothing Random: Bennett Cerf and the Publishing House He Built

by Feldman, Gayle

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First edition · In dust jacket

NY: Random House, 2026. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New/New. DJ has small mended cut on front board edge. Second printing w/number line. Request free DJ mylar by emailing seller. Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product. Physical Info: 2.1" H x 9.3" L x 6.5" W (3.25 lbs) 1072 pages. Price covers book wrapped in paper, bubble wrapped, then in cardboard box. Thank you. The story of the legendary Random House founder, whose seemingly charmed life at the apogee of the American Century afforded him a front-row seat to literary and cultural history in the making "A stunning achievement . . . a sweeping intellectual history with a stunning cast of characters that reveals the inner struggles of a great publishing house."--Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer 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. But they didn't know that the handsome, driven, paradoxical young man of the 1920s had vowed to become a great publisher and, a decade later, was. By then, he'd signed Eugene O'Neill, Gertrude Stein, and William Faulkner, and had fought the landmark censorship case that gave Americans the freedom to read James Joyce's Ulysses. With his best friend and lifelong business partner Donald Klopfer, and other young Jewish entrepreneurs like the Knopfs and Simon & Schuster, Cerf remade the book business: what was pu

• Publisher: Random House
• Year: 2026
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: later
• Binding: hardcover

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