The firm was founded in 1923. Began publishing mostly trade books. The original book had academic plant to them because mr. And mrs. Norton like to go to the peoples institute which is a sort of adulteducation branch, cooper union in new york city and one can imagine mrs. Norton tugging and saying, someone should publish these lectures. It was mr. Norton kept his day job in importexport industry but began to published from the peoples institute. We were first founded at peoples Institute Press and operated under that name for three years. Mr. Norton 1926, the firm was reincorporated as w. W. Norton and company, he quit job in the industry and became a fulltime publisher. How long was mr. Norton active . He was with the firm for 19 years, 1926, he died unfortunately rather suddenly in 1945 after which the firm began an evolution through the generosity of mrs. Norton who was incredibly proud of this publishing that she and her husband had started. By the mid 1950s or formerly in late 195
Debate, most of the important work has already been done. It is informative to watch, but it is not necessarily the real business being done. Its actually not rational for most voters to spend a lot of time informing themselves about politics. Because most voters have complicated lives. Informing yourself about politics it takes a lot of time for very little reward. I find it rewarding to study politics because i find it fascinating. But the probability of one voter casting the pivotal vote in an election is pretty much less than the probability of getting struck by lightning. So, its not really rational to invest a lot of time learning about politics unless you enjoy learning about politics for its own sake. Because it is not rational for individual voters to do that, you wind up with a lot of voters who are relatively poorly informed. The problem is the if the electorate as a whole is poorly informed, then you wind up with the possibility of bad decisions been made where income and i
Veteran of the publishing world. I worked for harper is a Senior Editor and Vice President for many years and went on to work at Simon Schuster as well. So i have been around the block. Im a bit of a veteran in all fields, but we have learned so many things in this conference so far. It such a delight, such a pleasure to the wonderful keynote speech about the importance of words and the report from the frontlines of so many countries, south africa and russia, marvelous and to learn that the First Encounter between europe and the new world, between the conquistadors and the quinta was over a book and on and on with the heritage of Thomas Jefferson and the wonderful discussions that you just heard. At such a vibrant discussion. And wonderful to know that it will go on on in the sum of as we go forward around the world. Now what we have learned in the whole process is that the book culture is changing, although we all know i think in our hearts that the world of books which we have known
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I’ve covered arts and entertainment and written humor columns at The Day for almost a quarter-century. What I’ve learned is how privileged I’ve been to explore for readers an incredibly diverse, active, and creative cultural area – from local music clubs, galleries and museums to numerous nationally famous authors, performance organizations and the array of talent that flows through the Garde Arts Center, and Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods casinos, and much more.
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I’ve covered arts and entertainment and written humor columns at The Day for almost a quarter-century. What I’ve learned is how privileged I’ve been to explore for readers an incredibly diverse, active, and creative cultural area – from local music clubs, galleries and museums to numerous nationally famous authors, performance organizations and the array of talent that flows through the Garde Arts Center, and Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods casinos, and much more.