Turning Pages
The Adventures and Misadventures of a Publisher
by John Sargent
Pub Date 19 Sep 2023 |
Skyhorse Publishing,Arcade
Biographies & Memoirs
Skyhorse Publishing, Arcade, and Netgalley provided me with a copy of Turning Pages for review:
Taking a peek behind the pages of Turning Pages provides a rare insight into
some of the biggest publishing moments in the past several decades with forty-year industry veteran John Sargent.
With Turning Pages: The Adventures and Misadventures of a Publisher, the author shares his forty years in the publishing industry. For twenty-four years, John Sargent ran one of America's largest publishing companies. Instead of a chronological narrative, Sargent takes us inside book publishing through the best stories from those years. Through his weaving of these stories, he takes the reader on a journey through triumph and despair, as well as a very interesting day-to-day life. Readers will meet his odd publishing family, his interesting authors, and celebrities he worked with. He recounts his experience having an author meeting at Buckingham Palace and publishing Monica Lewinsky. Readers are taken along on Macmillan's battles with Amazon, the Department of Justice, and President Donald Trump.
The reader will share his occasional pain and seemingly endless joy, from a one-room schoolhouse in Wyoming to the Nelson Mandela Foundation in South Africa, in Turning Pages. It's a book for those who enjoy a good story about an interesting life, full of humor and grace. Those who love books and have always wondered about the publishing industry should read this behind-the-scenes look at some of the biggest moments in publishing over the last several decades.
I give Turning Pages five out of five stars!
Happy Reading!
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