William Terry Couch and the politics of academic publishing : an editor's career as lightning rod for controversy

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"--

Record details

ISBN: 0786499818
ISBN: 9780786499816
ISBN: 1476622418
ISBN: 9781476622415
Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 268 pages)
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Publisher: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.