A History of the Book in America

The fifth volume of <i>A History of the Book in America</i> addresses the economic social and cultural shifts affecting print culture from World War II to the present. During this period factors such as the expansion of government the growth of higher education the climate of the Cold War globalization and the development of multimedia and digital technologies influenced the patterns of consolidation and diversification established earlier.<br/><br/>The thirty-three contributors to the volume explore the evolution of the publishing industry and the business of bookselling. The histories of government publishing law and policy the periodical press literary criticism and reading — in settings such as schools libraries book clubs self-help programs and collectors' societies — receive imaginative scrutiny as well. <i>The Enduring Book</i> demonstrates that the corporate consolidations of the last half-century have left space for the independent publisher that multiplicity continues to define American print culture and that even in the digital age the book endures.<br/><br/>Contributors:<br/>David Abrahamson Northwestern University<br/>James L. Baughman University of Wisconsin–Madison<br/>Kenneth Cmiel (d. 2006)<br/>James Danky University of Wisconsin–Madison<br/>Robert DeMaria Jr. Vassar College<br/>Donald A. Downs University of Wisconsin–Madison<br/>Robert W. Frase (d. 2003)<br/>Paul C. Gutjahr Indiana University<br/>David D. Hall Harvard Divinity School<br/>John B. Hench American Antiquarian Society<br/>Patrick Henry New York City College of Technology<br/>Dan Lacy (d. 2001)<br/>Marshall Leaffer Indiana University<br/>Bruce Lewenstein Cornell University<br/>Elizabeth Long Rice University<br/>Beth Luey Arizona State University<br/>Tom McCarthy Beirut Lebanon<br/>Laura J. Miller Brandeis University<br/>Priscilla Coit Murphy Chapel Hill N.C.<br/>David Paul Nord Indiana University<br/>Carol Polsgrove Indiana University<br/>David Reinking Clemson University<br/>Jane Rhodes Macalester College<br/>John V. Richardson Jr. University of California Los Angeles<br/>Joan Shelley Rubin University of Rochester<br/>Michael Schudson University of California San Diego and Columbia University<br/>Linda Scott University of Oxford<br/>Dan Simon Seven Stories Press<br/>Ilan Stavans Amherst College<br/>Harvey M. Teres Syracuse University<br/>John B. Thompson University of Cambridge<br/>Trysh Travis University of Florida<br/>Jonathan Zimmerman New York University