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Hothouse : The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America's Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, S

-- The New Yorker Boris Kachka deftly reveals the era and the city that built FSG through the stories of two men: founder-owner Roger Straus, the pugnacious black sheep of his powerful German-Jewish family?with his bottomless supply of ascots, charm, and vulgarity of every stripe?and his utter opposite, the reticent, closeted editor Robert Giroux, who rose from working-class New Jersey to discover the novelists and poets who helped define American culture. Giroux became one of T.S. Eliot?s best friends, just missed out on -- HothouseNew York magazine writer. It tells an essential story for the first time, providing a delicious inside perspective on the rich pageant of postwar cultural life and illuminating the vital intellectual center of the American Century.

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