A History of the Book in America: Volume 5: The Enduring Book: Print Culture in Postwar America (History of the Book in America, #5)

The fifth volume of A History of the Book in America 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. 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. The Enduring Book 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. Contributors: David Abrahamson, Northwestern University James L. Baughman, University of Wisconsin-Madison Kenneth Cmiel (d. 2006) James Danky, University of Wisconsin-Madison Robert DeMaria Jr., Vassar College Donald A. Downs, University of Wisconsin-Madison Robert W. Frase (d. 2003) Paul C. Gutjahr, Indiana University David D. Hall, Harvard Divinity School John B. Hench, American Antiquarian Society Patrick Henry, New York City College of Technology Dan Lacy (d. 2001) Marshall Leaffer, Indiana University Bruce Lewenstein, Cornell University Elizabeth Long, Rice University Beth Luey, Arizona State University Tom McCarthy, Beirut, Lebanon Laura J. Miller, Brandeis University Priscilla Coit Murphy, Chapel Hill, N.C. David Paul Nord, Indiana University Carol Polsgrove, Indiana University David Reinking, Clemson University Jane Rhodes, Macalester College John V. Richardson Jr., University of California, Los Angeles Joan Shelley Rubin, University of Rochester Michael Schudson, University of California, San Diego, and Columbia University Linda Scott, University of Oxford Dan Simon, Seven Stories Press Ilan Stavans, Amherst College Harvey M. Teres, Syracuse University John B. Thompson, University of Cambridge Trysh Travis, University of Florida Jonathan Zimmerman, New York University The enduring book in a multimedia age / Michael Schudson The organization of the book publishing industry / Beth Luey Book production technology since 1945 / Patrick Henry Markets and audiences / Linda M. Scott Selling the product / Laura J. Miller The right niche : consumer magazines and advertisers / David Abrahamson and Carol Polsgrove Wounded but not slain : the orderly retreat of the American newspaper / James L. Baughman Government censorship since 1945 / Donald A. Downs American copyright law since 1945 / Marshall Leaffer U.S. government publishing in the postwar era / David Paul Nord and John V. Richardson Jr. Building on the 1940s. Section I : A D-Day for American books in Europe : Overseas Editions, Inc., 1944-1945 / John B. Hench ; Section II : the American Book Publishers Council / Don Lacy and Robert W. Frase Editorial vision and the role of the independent publisher / Dan Simon and Tom McCarthy Literary culture, criticism, and bibliography. Section I : cultures of letters, cultures of criticism / David D. Hall ; Section II : the critical climate / Harvey Teres ; Section III : bibliography and the meaning of "text" / David D. Hall Magazines and the making of authors / Carol Polsgove The oppositional press / James P. Dunky The black press and radical print culture / Jane Rhodes Where the customer is king : the textbook in American culture / Jonathan Zimmerman Libraries, books, and the information age / Kenneth Cmiel Science books since 1945 / Bruce V. Lewenstein U.S. academic publishing in the digital age / John B. Thompson The perseverance of print-bound saints : Protestant book publishing / Paul C. Gutjahr Bilingual nation : Spanish-language books in the United States since the 1960s / Ilan Stavans The enduring reader / Joan Shelley Rubin Reading the language of the heart : the "big book" of Alcoholics Anonymous / Trysh Travis Books and the media : the Silent spring debate / Priscilla Coit Murphy The Chat-An-Hour Social and Cultural Club : African American women readers / Elizabeth Long Book collecting and the book as object / Robert DeMaria Jr. Valuing reading, writing, and books in a post-typographic world / David Reinking Reading the data on books, newspapers, and magazines : a statistical appendix / Laura J. Miller and David Paul Nord V. 1. The colonial book in the Atlantic world: This book carries the interrelated stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790. v. 2 An Extensive Republic: This volume documents the development of a distinctive culture of print in the new American republic. v. 3. The industrial book 1840-1880: This volume covers the creation, distribution, and uses of print and books in the mid-nineteenth century, when a truly national book trade emerged. v. 4. Print in Motion: In a period characterized by expanding markets, national consolidation, and social upheaval, print culture picked up momentum as the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth. v. 5. The Enduring Book: This volume addresses the economic, social, and cultural shifts affecting print culture from Word War II to the present