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100 1 $aSchiffrin, André.
245 12 $aA political education :$bcoming of age in Paris and New York /$cAndré Schiffrin.
250 $aFirst paperback edition.
263 $a1403
264 1 $aBrooklyn, NY :$bMelville House,$c2014.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Schiffrin evokes the bittersweet tang of emigre life in New York." --The New York Times Book Review Andre Schiffrin was born the son of one of France's most esteemed publishers, in a world peopled by some of the day's leading writers and intellectuals, such as Andre Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Antoine de Saint-Exupery. But this world was torn apart when the Nazis marched into Paris on young Andre's fifth birthday. Beginning with the family's dramatic escape to Casablanca--thanks to the help of the legendary Varian Fry--and eventually New York, A Political Education recounts the surprising twists and turns of a life that saw Schiffrin become, himself, one of the world's most respected publishers. Emerging from the emigre community of wartime New York (a community that included his father's friends Hannah Arendt and Helen and Kurt Wolff), he would go on to develop an insatiable appetite for literature and politics: heading a national student group he renamed the Students for a Democratic Society--the SDS. leading student groups at European conferences, once, as an unwitting front man for the CIA. and eventually being appointed by Random House chief Bennett Cerf to head the very imprint cofounded by his father--Pantheon. There, he would discover and publish some of the world's leading writers, including Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault, Art Spiegelman, Studs Terkel, and Marguerite Duras. But in a move that would make headlines, Schiffrin would ultimately rebel at corporate ownership and form his own publishing house--The New Press--where he would go on to set a new standard for independent publishing. A Political Education is a fascinating intellectual memoir that tells not only the story of a unique and important figure, but of the tumultuous political times that shaped him. From the Hardcover edition"--$cProvided by publisher.
500 $aOriginally published: 2007.
505 0 $aParadise lost -- Paradise revisited -- My America at mid-century -- Yale, SDS, and the CIA -- Cambridge and the discovery of England -- The sixties -- Seventies onward.
600 10 $aSchiffrin, André$xPolitical and social views.
600 10 $aSchiffrin, André$xChildhood and yourth.
600 10 $aSchiffrin, André$xHomes and haunts$zFrance$zParis.
650 0 $aPublishers and publishing$zUnited States$vBiography.
651 0 $aParis (France)$xIntellectual life$y20th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xIntellectual life$y20th century.
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical.$2bisacsh
775 0 $iReproduction of (manifestation):$aSchiffrin, André$tPolitical education$dHoboken, N.J. : Melville House, c2007$h281 p., [16] p of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.$nCall number of original: Z473.S36 2007$w(DLC) 2006101685
856 42 $3Cover image$u9781612193632.jpg