| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

George Palmer Putnam: Representative American Publisher. By Ezra Greenspan. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. xviii, 510 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-271-02005-9.)

When Mary Saracino Zboray and I set out to write A Handbook for the Study of Book History in the United States (2000), we were surprised at the paucity of recent scholarly biographies of American publishers. This was the case despite a quarter century of exhortation by so-called historians of the book to alert researchers across disciplines to what should be by now a commonplace: how books came to be made can be as much a part of their social meaning as is their content or the intent of their authors. . . .

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