false 3764376 1 <DIV><DIV><P>The golden age of book publishing, Al Silverman informs us with utter certainty, began in 1946 and lasted into the late 1970s and early 1980s. In his intimate history of those years, Silverman sets out to prove this sweeping conceit by relying on the eyes and ears and memories of the men and women who were <I>there </I>creating that history. Without inhibition, more than 120 of the most notable heads of houses, editors and publishers of this time shared many never-before told stories about how the most important books in postwar America came into being, and are still being read today.</P><P>In <I>The Time of Their Lives</I> we learn how &#8230;</P><P>-- Robert Gottlieb worked with Joseph Heller to make <I>Catch-18, </I>as it was then called, into the world renowned <I>Catch-22&#8230;</I></P><P>-- Corlies &#8220;Cork&#8221; Smith took a risk on a shy young man he had never heard of, Thomas Pynchon, after being absorbed by one of his earliest short stories &#8230;</P><P>-- Leona Nevler edited under delicate working conditions with a most difficult author, to make <I>Peyton Place </I>a novel for all generations.</P><P> It was Arthur Thornhill, Sr., in his years as president of Little, Brown&#8217;s grand publishing house who said about the occupation he loved, &#8220;I wanted to be part of something that was <I>good,</I>&#8221; his word for publishing in the golden age. In this fascinating and elegiac history, Al Silverman illuminates a period in publishing that was not only good, but formed a distinguishing landmark of culture in American life -- a golden time that certainly deserves a new life.</P></DIV></DIV> 3808290 16 9 2008 The Time of Their Lives: The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors and Authors total:7|5:2|4:2|3:2|2:1| 7 26 38 3 3 2 false false Sun Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 19:59:11 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 12 15:34:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Feb 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 08:29:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 08:08:15 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 27 16:12:16 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 16:16:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Oct 14 17:19:38 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 17:19:38 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 29 10:22:34 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 10:22:34 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Aug 25 08:08:06 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 08:08:06 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Aug 11 13:06:29 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 13:06:32 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Aug 09 16:42:16 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 16:42:44 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jun 28 10:25:51 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 10:25:51 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu May 28 09:28:25 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 09:28:25 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat May 16 21:55:56 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 21:55:56 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Apr 01 12:55:11 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 12:55:11 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Jan 30 15:36:20 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 15:36:20 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jan 08 14:59:47 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 14:59:47 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Dec 10 19:49:59 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 19:49:59 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Wed Dec 03 11:27:15 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 11:00:08 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 11:27:15 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Thu Oct 30 12:59:18 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 30 12:59:18 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Oct 27 16:27:25 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 16:27:34 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Oct 20 09:48:22 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 20 09:48:22 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri Oct 17 07:02:32 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 17 07:02:32 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3764376