Dear Donald, Dear Bennett by Bennett Cerf - ISBN: 9780375507687
Hardcover
Wartime letters reveal the heart of Random House’s founders.

Dear Donald, Dear Bennett

The Wartime Correspondence of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer

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  • Hardcover

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    15 January 2002

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Summary

Donald Klopfer and Bennett Cerf had been partners in Random House for seventeen years, but Donald decided that he had to become a part of an even greater endeavor—the defeat of Nazi Germany. Not long after Pearl Harbor, Donald, who was then forty years old, took a leave from Random House and joined the United States Army Air Forces. He served for two and a half years, finally becoming an intelligence major in a B-24 group in England.

Donald and Bennett wrote to each other regularly al…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780375507687
ISBN-10:037550768X
Author:Bennett Cerf, Donald Klopfer, Robert D. Loomis
Publisher:Random House USA Inc
Imprint:Random House USA Inc
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:15 January 2002
Weight:356g
Dimensions:216mm x 147mm x 20mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“My lucky star is a house—and an imaginary one at that.
Rockwell Kent drew it, one day, sitting in my office,
and it was adopted forthwith as
a trade mark for our publishing firm.
We called it Random House because we said
we were going to publish anything under
the sun that came along—if we liked it well enough.
That was in 1928. We’re trying to
make the star burn a little brighter each year.”

—Bennett Cerf

About The Author

Bennett Cerf

In 1925, Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer bought the Modern Library from Horace Liveright, and three years later they launched Random House. For more than forty years they personally guided its fortunes, creating one of the most successful publishing companies in America. Cerf died in 1971, Klopfer in 1986.

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