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On George Palmer Putnam's death in 1872, his sons George H., John and Irving inherited the business and the firm's name was changed to G. P. Putnam's Sons. [3] Son George H. Putnam became president of the firm, a position he held for the next fifty-two years. In 1874, the company established its own book printing and manufacturing office, set ...
George P. Putnam. George Palmer Putnam (September 7, 1887 – January 4, 1950) was an American publisher, writer and explorer. Known for his marriage to (and being the widower of) Amelia Earhart, he had also achieved fame as one of the most successful promoters in the United States during the 1930s.
1853–1857. First, it was edited by Charles Frederick Briggs from January 1853 to September 1857 (whereupon it merged with Emerson's United States Magazine ); It was founded by George Palmer Putnam, who intended it to be a vehicle for publishing the best of new American writing; a circular that Putnam sent to prospective authors (including ...
Trinity's Child is a 1983 fiction novel written by William Prochnau.The book narrates of a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union.. The story takes place during the waning years of the Cold War when the US engages in a massive military buildup against the Soviet Union to push the Soviet economy to a breaking point, with the aim of bringing it to a political compromise ...
Hal Higdon (born June 17, 1931) is an American writer and runner known for his training plans. He is the author of 34 books, including the best-selling Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide.
I Chose Capitol Punishment (World Pub. Co., 1963)... and Then I Told the President: The Secret Papers of Art Buchwald (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1965) Son of the Great Society (Putnam, 1966) Have I Ever Lied to You?. New York: Putnam's Sons. 1968 – via Internet Archive. The Establishment is Alive and Well in Washington (Putnam, 1969)
Plot. The novel concerns Noel Holcroft, New York City architect and secretly the son of Heinrich Clausen, chief economic adviser to the Third Reich. At some point in the 1970s, Holcroft is contacted by the Grande Banque de Geneve, concerning his father's will and testament. The testament says that in the last half of the war, Clausen found out ...
0-674-00590-2. Advertisements for Myself is an omnibus collection of fiction, essays, verse, and fragments by Norman Mailer, with autobiographical commentaries that he calls "advertisements." [1] Advertisements was published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1959 after Mailer secured his reputation with The Naked and the Dead, then endured setbacks with ...