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0300251424 pdf An investigation into the transformation of publishing in the United States from a field in which Jews were systematically excluded to one in which they became ubiquitous Readers with an interest in the industry will find plenty of insights.Publishers Weekly From the very first page, this book is funnier and more gripping than a book on publishing has any right to be. Anyone interested in Americas intellectual or Jewish history must read this, and anyone looking for an engrossing story should.Emily Tamkin, author of Bad Jews In the 1960s and 1970s, complaints about a Jewish literary mafia were everywhere. Although a conspiracy of Jews colluding to control publishing in the United States never actually existed, such accusations reflected a genuine transformation from an industry notorious for excluding Jews to one in which they arguably had become the most influential figures. Josh Lambert examines the dynamics between Jewish editors and Jewish writers how Jewish women exposed the misogyny they faced from publishers and how children of literary parents have struggled with and benefited from their inheritances. Drawing on interviews and tens of thousands of pages of letters and manuscripts, Read more