Speaking freely
Subtitle: my life in publishing and human rights
By: Robert L. Bernstein with Doug Merlino
Contributors: Merlino, Doug, author
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9781620971710
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Publishers and publishing; Random House (Firm); Human Rights Watch (Organization); History; Biography; Human rights workers
Description: "What do Dr. Seuss, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Andrei Sakharov, and James Michener have in common? They were all published by Bob Bernstein during his twenty-five year run as president of Random House, before he brought the dissidents Liu Binyan, Jacobo Timerman, Natan Sharansky, and Vaclav Havel to worldwide attention in his role as the father of modern human rights, "--NoveList.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Youth; title: Office boy in waiting; title: At Random; title: On top, suddenly; title: Politics and publishing; title: The Russians; title: The birth of Helsinki Watch; title: From RCA to Newhouse; title: Finding our footing: human rights, 1980-85; title: The Soviet Union implodes: human rights, 1985-90; title: Random House in the 1980s: the Newhouse years; title: China; title: A new organization, a new approach; title: Some thoughts on the future of human rights in the Middle East.