Skeptic Among Scholars : August Frugé on University Publishing.
When August Frugé joined the University of California Press in 1944, it was part of the University's printing department, publishing a modest number of books a year, mainly monographs by UC faculty members. When he retired as director 32 years later, the Press had been transformed into one of t...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
1993
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; 1 Fin de Siecle: End and Beginning; 2 Berkeley in the 1940s: The Place and How I Came to Be There; 3 The University Press in the 1940s: Recto and Verso; 4 An Unavoidable Conflict; 5 How We Joined the Editorial Committee; 6 A Kind of Metamorphosis; 7 Where to Look for Books: Athens in Berkeley; 8 Looking to the South: Many Americas; 9 Looking West to the East: Pel and the Asian Books; 10 Ishi, Don Juan, and the Anthropologists: A Tale of Two Best-Sellers; 11 Hollywood and Berkeley: Getting into the Film Business.
- 12 London, 1660 and 1960: The Coded Words of Sam Pepys13 Nevada in the 1860s: Sam Clemens; 14 In Any Language but English: Poetry at the Press; 15 The Poetry-Hating Director; 16 A Few Pounds of Lit Crit; 17 Mega Biblion: Exposing the Press to Art History; 18 The Book as Artifact: Design and Printing; 19 Anybody Can Write a Book, but ... ; 20 The Bird That Was Overdue for Evolution: And Other Tales of the Financial Wars; 21 Waiting for the God from the Machine; 22 Earthquakes and Endings; ADDENDA: ALTERNATIVE VIEWS; I: God, Swahili, Bandicoots, and Euphoria; II: Publishing The Plan of St. Gall.
- IndexA; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
