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Author Shiflett, Orvin Lee, author.

Title William Terry Couch and the politics of academic publishing : an editor's career as lightning rod for controversy / Orvin Lee Shiflett.

Publication Info. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (vii, 268 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "William Terry Couch (1901-1988) began his four-decade publishing career building the University of North Carolina Press into one of the nation's leading university presses. Couch was committed to publishing and strove to disturb American complacency. This first book-length biography of Couch covers the career of a publisher who brought academic scholarship to the public"-- Provided by publisher
Contents A university press in the south -- Culture in the south -- Books that ought to be written -- A case history in book publishing -- Objectivity and social science -- The sainted book burners -- Do intellectuals have minds? -- The human potential for modernism -- The word and the rope.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Couch, William T. (William Terry), 1901-1988.
Couch, William T. (William Terry), 1901-1988 -- Political and social views.
University of North Carolina Press -- History -- 20th century.
Couch, William T. (William Terry), 1901-1988 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJrgMqyvWCfcjphYyv4yVC
University of North Carolina Press
Publishers and publishing -- United States -- Biography.
Editors -- United States -- 20th century -- Biography.
Scholarly publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
University presses -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
Editors
Intellectual life
Political and social views
Publishers and publishing
Scholarly publishing
University presses
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Shiflett, Orvin Lee. William Terry Couch and the politics of academic publishing 9780786499816 (DLC) 2015022624 (OCoLC)908375502
ISBN 9781476622415 (electronic bk.)
1476622418 (electronic bk.)
9780786499816
0786499818

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