Dear Donald, Dear Bennett
The Wartime Correspondence of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer
$50.42
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
15 January 2002
Summary
Donald Klopfer and Bennett Cerf had been partners in Random House for seventeen years, but Donald decided that he had to become a part of an even greater endeavor—the defeat of Nazi Germany. Not long after Pearl Harbor, Donald, who was then forty years old, took a leave from Random House and joined the United States Army Air Forces. He served for two and a half years, finally becoming an intelligence major in a B-24 group in England.
Donald and Bennett wrote to each other regularly al…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375507687 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 037550768X |
| Author: | Bennett Cerf, Donald Klopfer, Robert D. Loomis |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 15 January 2002 |
| Weight: | 356g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 147mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
“My lucky star is a house—and an imaginary one at that.
Rockwell Kent drew it, one day, sitting in my office,
and it was adopted forthwith as
a trade mark for our publishing firm.
We called it Random House because we said
we were going to publish anything under
the sun that came along—if we liked it well enough.
That was in 1928. We’re trying to
make the star burn a little brighter each year.”
—Bennett Cerf
About The Author
Bennett Cerf
In 1925, Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer bought the Modern Library from Horace Liveright, and three years later they launched Random House. For more than forty years they personally guided its fortunes, creating one of the most successful publishing companies in America. Cerf died in 1971, Klopfer in 1986.
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