To the Reader

Key to Major Characters

Prologue: August 31, 1971, "They Can't Take That Away From Me"

Part One: 1898-1919, A Rather Unusual Specimen. Inheritance A Pretty Smart Kid Columbia

Part Two: 1920-1940, From Playboy of the Western World to Man of Property. Love Wrong Liveright The Book Boys Embarkations "The Random House" They Float Dentist, Patient-and Publisher One-Book Odyssey Daring Young Men Glamour Girls Ready for the Big Things For Love or Money

Part Three: 1941-1951, Try and Stop Me. Patriotism and Profit Mr. Chirp in the Lyons Den Golden Era for a Brownstone Palace A New Voice, Another Home Friends and Enemies Some Kind of Progress A Horse for a Long Race Midcentury What's Not His Line Gatsby in Paradise

Part Four: 1952-1959, "And the Mystery Guest Is...". What's New Bombshells and Whoppers Transitions and Home Truths Energy Families and Fieldtrips Feds and Nymphets Ideal Publisher Party Cats and Cats in Hats Hellos and Goodbyes Everything Public Two Acts, One Finale

Part Five: 1960-1971, Real Business. Knopfs Grow or Die Appetites and Digestion Go Down, Goodbye Heartburn and Heartache Red Hot Fun Divorces and Disagreements Backing Horses Big Money, Different Equations Big Business Successor and Sale Sinatra Done Deal Blood Red and Black/White Interventions Turbulence Making It Exits and Entrances Confessions and Controversies Palace to Tower Block Famous and Fading

Epilogue: Revolving Doors

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