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Cortés envisioned and launched the Alliance Schools strategy - a lauded initiative to engage communities of adults in public education. [5] Identifying and training parent and community leaders to change the culture of their schools, the Alliance Schools have built a broad base of support for public education, both locally and statewide. [ 6 ]
Leadership in Turbulent Times is a 2018 book by Doris Kearns Goodwin and was published by Simon & Schuster.The book covers the lives and leadership skills of four US Presidents Goodwin previously studied: Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson.
Simon & Schuster LLC (/ ˈ ʃ uː s t ər /, SHOO-stər) is an American publishing house owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts since 2023. It was founded in New York City in 1924, by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. [5]
Free Press was led by publisher Martha Levin from 2001 until 2012, when it ceased to exist as a distinct entity and merged into Simon & Schuster's flagship imprint. [ 4 ] [ 6 ] In 2003, two of the five finalists for the 2003 National Book Award in the non-fiction category were Free Press titles, including the winner, Waiting for Snow in Havana ...
Leon Shimkin was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1907 to Lithuanian Jewish immigrants. [2] [3] Shimkin had just completed his first year at New York University when he joined Boni & Liveright and then Simon & Schuster as a bookkeeper at age 17. Shimkin continued his studies at New York University in the evenings. [2]
A Story for Teddy and Others (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965) Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn: The Collected Stories of Harvey Swados. Introduction by Robin Swados. (New York: Viking Penguin, 1986) Essays. A Radical’s America (Boston: Atlantic/Little, Brown, 1962) A Radical at Large: American Essays (London: Hart-Davis, 1968). Edited works
Simon was a pioneer in emphasizing marketing, merchandising, promotion and advertising for booksellers. Simon wrote a weekly column and advertorial in Publishers Weekly called the Inner Sanctum. His partner Max Schuster wrote a column of the same name for The New York Times. The title was also the name of the editorial room between their ...
In 2022, Simon & Schuster sold 900 autographed copies of Bob Dylan’s book of essays, “The Philosophy of Modern Song.” Accompanying each $600 book was a letter of authenticity signed by Karp, the publisher’s chief executive, indicating that the books had been hand signed by Dylan. According to a New York Times article, when the books ...