Speaking freely : my life in publishing and human rights / Robert L. Bernstein with Doug Merlino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bernstein, Robert L., 1923-2019, author.

Merlino, Doug, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bernstein, Robert L., 1923-2019.

Bernstein, Robert L.

Random House (Firm)--History.

Random House (Firm).

Human Rights Watch (Organization)--History.

Human Rights Watch (Organization).

Publishers and publishing--United States--Biography.

Publishers and publishing.

Human rights workers.

History.

United States.

Human rights workers--United States--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 341 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : The New Press, [2016]

Summary:

"What do Dr. Seuss, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Andrei Sakharov, and James Michener have in common? They were all published by Bob Bernstein during his twenty-five year run as president of Random House, before he brought the dissidents Liu Binyan, Jacobo Timerman, Natan Sharansky, and Vaclav Havel to worldwide attention in his role as the father of modern human rights, "--NoveList.

Contents:

Youth

Office boy in waiting

At Random

On top, suddenly

Politics and publishing

The Russians

The birth of Helsinki Watch

From RCA to Newhouse

Finding our footing: human rights, 1980-85

The Soviet Union implodes: human rights, 1985-90

Random House in the 1980s: the Newhouse years

China

A new organization, a new approach

Some thoughts on the future of human rights in the Middle East.

Notes:

Includes index.

Other Format:

Online version: Bernstein, Robert L., 1923- author. Speaking freely.

ISBN:

9781620971710

1620971712

OCLC:

935784507