Harvard University Press

This book tells the story of Harvard University Press, including its ancestry, founding, and evolution, its vividly contrasting leaders, its successes, failures, and troubles, all in the context of the university of which it is a department.

Introduction: A University and Its Publishing House 1. Antecedents and Founding 2. First Steps under C. C. Lane, 1913-1919 3. The Murdock Years, 1910-1934 4. Malone and a Wider Audience, 1935-1943 5. Wartime Shock 6. Scaife and Survival, 1943-1947 7. Wilson and the Rise of the Press, 1947-1967 8. The Paperback Question, the Double Helix, and Other Stories 9. Crisis and Reorganization, 1968-1972 Notes Sources and Acknowledgments Index