The Temper of the West: A Memoir

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Univ of South Carolina Press, 2003 - 321 pages
"While at HBJ, Jovanovich edited Mary McCarthy, Diana Trilling, Charles A. Lindbergh, James Gould Cozzens, Milton Friedman, and Hannah Arendt, among others. But his friends and connections branched widely. Jovanovich's memoir includes many encounters and relationships - some of them brief and contentious, many of them deep and enduring - with the likes of T. S. and Valerie Eliot, Marshall McLuhan, Groucho Marx, Jerzy Kosinski, Eugene McCarthy, Erich Maria Remarque, Dean Acheson, B. F. Skinner, and Robert Maxwell (whose attempt at a hostile takeover of HBJ was thwarted by Jovanovich at a cost that led to his withdrawal from the company three years later)."--BOOK JACKET.
 

Contents

The Last Europeans 2230
24
A Woman and Her Work
30
Paying Attention Now and Then
42
Editing
53
Celebrity
72
English Scenes
80
Sonia Orwell and Others
86
What Is to Be Done?
95
Boys in the Bunkhouse
184
Across the Atlantic
213
Summertime Books
222
Eugene McCarthy
231
President Truman
238
Kosinski and Simon
252
Georges Simenon
261
Erich and Paulette
274

Insouciance
111
True West Last West
125
In the New and Old South
133
Defining Moments
139
Nobody Here but All Us Chickens
176
Age and Honors
292
Charles Lindbergh
300
The Temper of the West
309
Index
315
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