Ezra Greenspan
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 472
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Chronicles the story of one of the great publishing firms of nineteenth-century America and one of the founding figures of modern American publishing. George Palmer Putnam played a central role in founding and running his publishing house and in organizing book publishers into a more centralized industry. Putnam concentrated the publishing activities of his house around a commitment to patronizing American authorship and improving the standard of American bookmaking.