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The May 1926 meeting of the directors of the American Fund for Public Service, better known as the Garland Fund, allocated $100,000 to establish the Vanguard Press. [4] The new publisher was intended to reissue left-wing classics at an affordable cost and to provide an outlet for the publication of new titles otherwise deemed "unpublishable" by the commercial press of the day. [4]
Pages in category "1939 books" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Jazzmen is a book on the history of jazz. It was edited by Frederic Ramsey, Jr. and Charles Edward Smith, and was published by Harcourt, Brace & Company in 1939. It was the first jazz history book published in the United States and helped establish a story of early jazz as well as renewing interest in those forms of music and their players.
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. The two most popular books that year were The Grapes of Wrath , by John Steinbeck , which held on top of the list for 24 weeks, and All This and Heaven Too by Rachel Field , which was on top of the list for 14 weeks.
"September 1, 1939" (in The New Republic (U.S.) October 18) Vladimir Cavarnali – Răsadul verde al inimii stelele de sus îl plouă (The Heart's Green Seedling Is Rained upon by the Stars Above) Aimé Césaire – Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (Notebook on a Return to the Native Land) T. S. Eliot – Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
The idea of recording WJSV's entire broadcast day from sign-on to sign-off grew out of ongoing talks between members of the National Archives and station WJSV. [3] Before this project took place members of the National Archives such as John Bradley, the chief of the Division of Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings, and R. D. W. Connor, the Archivist of the United States, discussed the matter ...
Wonder Man was created by Will Eisner in the Eisner & Iger Shop for Victor Fox, who was publishing astrology magazines when he ran across his distributor's reports on the incredible sales for National Periodicals' Action Comics in February 1939. He immediately decided to get into the comic book business, setting up offices in the same building ...
The final four volumes were published together in 1939, and won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for History. [1] [2] [3] Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and Abraham Lincoln: The War Years are collectively considered by many to be "the best-selling, most widely read, and most influential book[s] about Lincoln."