Burns, Joan Simpson
The Awkward Embrace: The Creative Artist and the Institution in America, an Inquiry Based on Interviews with Nine Men Who Have-Through Their Organizations-Worked to Influence American Culture
New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs but for a gift inscription at first free endpaper; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. Red ink remainder stamp along bottom edge near spine. The nine men interviewed were Hedley Donovan, Editor in Chief of Time, Inc., and then Turner Catledge, Lloyd Goodrich, William Jovanovich, Goddard Lieverson, W. McNeill Lowry, Harry H. Ransom, Frank Stanton and Frank Thompson Jr. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xxv [2], 3-511 [i-xvi] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Very Good,
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Keywords: Hedley Donovan|organization culture|Joan Simpson Burns|Turner Catledge|Lloyd Goodrich|William Jovanovich|Goddard Lieverson|W. McNeill Lowry|Harry H. Ransom|Frank Stanton|Frank Thompson, Jr.