Without a blush, Publisher Bennett Cerf predicted last week that while Samuel Johnson was the great lexicog rapher of the 18th century and Noah Webster of the 19th, Random House will be the best of ...

Gayle Feldman has produced a magisterial account of one of the great American publishers and the industry he built up.

WARS I HAVE SEEN—Gertrude Stein —Random House ($2.50), “Not many people,” observed Gertrude Stein’s U.S. publisher, Bennett Cerf, in his best-selling Try and Stop Me, “even claim to understand the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1978, Time magazine donated ...