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A publisher's career with the University of California Press, the Sierra Club, and the California Native Plant Society

Includes correspondence between Frugé and Suzanne Riess, clippings and miscellany, and a few photographs of Frugé and his wife.

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  • "Includes correspondence between Frugé and Suzanne Riess, clippings and miscellany, and a few photographs of Frugé and his wife."@en
  • "Includes documents relating to August Frugé publishing career and the Sierra Club."@en
  • "Includes compact disc recording of Susan Frugé memorial service, March 4, 2001."@en
  • "Background in Idaho and Oregon, education at Stanford University; early jobs, UC Berkeley librarianship degree, 1937; marriage, library work in Sacramento; University of California Press: 1940s, under Sam Farquhar, early mandate; under Frugé, Editorial Committee meetings, sponsoring editors, new directions, paperback publication; UCLA office of the Press; finances, inventory, Board of Control, marketing; comments on George Stewart, Max Yavno, Ansel Adams, Franklin Murphy, others; American Association of University Presses and university publishing in Latin America, 1950s, Centro Interamericano de Libros Académicos; Sierra Club: Publications Committee, 1960s, and connections with UC Press, David Brower, creating Exhibit Format Books, internal conflicts. Includes a joint interview with Susan Frugé (1926-2001) on the California Native Plant Society, CNPS activists and field trips, plant sales, Fremontia, August's role in CNPS, Jim Roof, Ledyard Stebbins and others. Appendices include extensive correspondence, and writings by Frugé."@en

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  • "Oral histories"@en
  • "History"@en

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  • "A publisher's career with the University of California Press, the Sierra Club, and the California Native Plant Society"@en