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André Schiffrin was born the son of one of France’s mostesteemed publishers, in a world peopled by some of the day’sleading writers and intellectuals, such as André Gide and Jean-PaulSartre. But this world was torn apart when the Nazis marched intoParis on young André's fifth birthday.
Beginning with the family’s dramatic escape to Casablanca—thanks tothe help of the legendary Varian Fry—and eventually New York, APOLITICAL EDUCATION recounts the surprising twists and turns of alife that saw Schiffrin become, himself, one of the world’s mostrespected publishers.
Emerging from the émigre community of wartime New York (a communityincluding Hannah Arendt and Kurt Wolff), he would go on to developan insatiable appetite for literature and politics: heading a tinystudent group at Yale that he renamed the Students for a DemocraticSociety—the SDS ... leading student groups at Europeanconferences—once, as an unwitting front man for the CIA ... andeventually being appointed by Random House chief Bennet Cerf tohead the very imprint co-founded by his father—Pantheon. There, hewould discover and publish some of the world’s leading writers,including Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault, Art Spiegelman, andMarguerite Duras.

André Schiffrin was born the son of one of France’s most
esteemed publishers, in a world peopled by some of the day’s
leading writers and intellectuals, such as André Gide and Jean-Paul
Sartre. But this world was torn apart when the Nazis marched into
Paris on young André's fifth birthday. 
Beginning with the family’s dramatic escape to Casablanca—thanks to
the help of the legendary Varian Fry—and eventually New York, A
POLITICAL EDUCATION recounts the surprising twists and turns of a
life that saw Schiffrin become, himself, one of the world’s most
respected publishers. 
Emerging from the émigre community of wartime New York (a community
including Hannah Arendt and Kurt Wolff), he would go on to develop
an insatiable appetite for literature and politics: heading a tiny
student group at Yale that he renamed the Students for a Democratic
Society—the SDS ... leading student groups at European
conferences—once, as an unwitting front man for the CIA ... and
eventually being appointed by Random House chief Bennet Cerf to
head the very imprint co-founded by his father—Pantheon. There, he
would discover and publish some of the world’s leading writers,
including Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault, Art Spiegelman, and
Marguerite Duras. 
Schiffrin would ultimately rebel at corporate ownership and form
his own publishing house—The New Press—where he would go on to set
a new standard for independent publishing. 
A POLITICAL EDUCATION is a fascinating intellectual memoir that
tells not only the story of a unique and important figure, but of
the tulutuous political times that shaped him.

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作者简介

André Schiffrin was, for thirty years, the publisher of Pantheon Books, where he published some of the world’s leading writers, including Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault, Eric Hobsbawm, Art Spiegelman, Simone De Beauvoir, Studs Terkel and Marguerite Duras. In 1990 Schiffrin left Pantheon to found The New Press, and many of those writers can with him. He is the author of the acclaimed study of the book industry, The Business of Books. André Schiffrin divides his time between Paris and New York.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PREFACE
CHAPTER ONE PARADISE LOST
CHAPTER TWO PARADISE REVISITED
CHAPTER THREE MY AMERICA AT MID-CENTURY
CHAPTER FOUR YALE, SDS, AND THE CIA
CHAPTER FIVE CAMBRIDGE AND THE DISCOVERY OF ENGLAND
CHAPTER SIX THE SIXTIES
CHAPTER SEVEN SEVENTIES ONWARD
CHAPTER EIGHT CONCLUSION
EPILOGUE
INDEX

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