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The story of the legendary Random House founder, whose seemingly charmed life at the apogee of the American Century afforded him a front-row seat to literary and cultural history in the making<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cA stunning achievement . . . a sweeping intellectual history with a stunning cast of characters that reveals the inner struggles of a great publishing house.\u201d\u2014Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning author of\u00a0American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

At midcentury, everyone knew Bennett Cerf: witty, beloved, middle-aged panelist on\u00a0What\u2019s My Line?<\/i>\u00a0whom TV brought into America\u2019s homes each week. But they didn\u2019t know that the handsome, driven, paradoxical young man of the 1920s had vowed to become a great publisher and, a decade later, was. By then, he\u2019d signed Eugene O\u2019Neill, Gertrude Stein, and William Faulkner, and had fought the landmark censorship case that gave Americans the freedom to read James Joyce\u2019s\u00a0Ulysses<\/i>.<\/p>\n

With his best friend and lifelong business partner Donald Klopfer, and other young Jewish entrepreneurs like the Knopfs and Simon & Schuster, Cerf remade the book business: what was published, and how. In 1925, he and Klopfer bought the Modern Library and turned it into an institution, then founded Random House, which eventually became a home to Truman Capote, Ralph Ellison, Ayn Rand, Dr. Seuss, Toni Morrison, James Michener, and many more.<\/p>\n

Even before TV, Cerf was a bestselling author and columnist as well as publisher; the show super-charged his celebrity, bringing fame\u2014but also criticism. A brilliant social networker and major influencer before such terms existed, he connected books to Broadway, TV, Hollywood, and politics. A fervent democratizer, he published \u201chigh,\u201d \u201clow,\u201d and wide, and from the Roaring Twenties to the Swinging Sixties collected an incredible array of friends, from George Gershwin to Frank Sinatra, having a fabulous time along the way.<\/p>\n

Using interviews with more than two hundred individuals, deeply researched archival material, and letters from private collections not previously available, this book brings Bennett Cerf to vibrant life, drawing book lovers into his world, finally laying open the page on a quintessential American original.<\/p>\n

Nothing Random<\/h3>\n

Bennett Cerf and the Publishing House He Built
\nBy: Gayle Feldman
\nNarrated by: Lisa Flanagan, Gayle Feldman
\nLength: 35 hrs and 27 mins
\nRelease date: 01-13-26
\nLanguage: English
\nFormat and Bitrate: MP3@64 kbps
\nSize: 973.88 MB<\/p>\n

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