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. ..._'. ..:.. ' '.-,': 1 V''' .: ; .. «| 1 ;:;'":-i; "'•':!.•.'"'•:'J•' '9 '• UgMjHgajK re M.L. R26 3 Regnery 2050368 Memoirs of a dissident publisher W01MGB il 8 LIBRARY PUBLIC PORT WAYNE AND AU» COUNTY, IMP. / ALLENCOUNTYPUBLICLIBRARY ZTO 3 1833 00591 4475 WITHDRAW ^f-7f MEMOIRS OF A DISSIDENT PUBLISHER A publisher whose controversial books on domestic and foreign politics made his house a force to be reckoned with, Henry Regnery came of age during the Depression, and was an early admirer of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Graduate studies in economics at Harvard, a sum- mer job with a New Deal agency, and his subsequent involvement in an am- bitious attempt to establish an ideal working community in the Pennsyl- — vania coal country these factors all caused him, one way or another, to turn his thinking toward the right. By the time he launched the Henry Regnery Companyin 1947,hewasanardentcon- servative. One of his firm's early successes was God and Man at Yale, the book that launched William F. Buckley,Jr., upon a glittering career. Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind (1953), in print to this day, helped to establish the con- servative movement as an integral part of the American tradition. Admiral — KimmeVsStory told "with theconvic- tion of a brave man who had been un- justly treated—by the highest officials of government" caused a sensation. Henry Regnery's authors included John Dos Passos,Wyndham Lewis,Ezra Pound, Konrad Adenauer, and that larger-than-life figurethe SouthAfrican poet Roy Campbell. The book provides illuminating and oftentimes entertain- ing glimpses of these and many other men and women who had an impact on our era: William Henry Chamberlin, David Dallin, Louis Budenz,Whittaker Chambers, Freda Utley, Felix Morley, James Burnham, Frank S. Meyer, among them. The memoir is forthright yet unas- suming, and engaginglyhonest. Itis the personal history of a unique publishing venture that is in effectan informal his- tory of the conservative movement in the United States since World War II. It will be of intense interest to people concerned with publishing, and of — course—to all readers right, left, and center who takepositionson thedom- inant issues of our time. HENRY REGNERY MEMOIRS OF A DISSIDENT PUBLISHER HBJ NewYorkandLondon HARCOURT BRACE JOVANOVICH Copyright © 1979 by Henry Regnery All rights reserved. Nopart ofthis publicationmay be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronicor mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Regnery, Henry, 1912- Memoirs ofa dissident publisher. Includes index. 1. Regnery, H—enry, 1912- — 2. Publishers and publishing—United States Biography. 3. Conservatism United States. I. Title. Z473.R43A35 070.5'092'4 [B] 78-22269 isbn 0-15-173752-5 First edition b c D E For E. S. R. with gratitude and affection 2050368
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