Avid Reader: A Life Viking Mama is raring to go

Mama is raring to go

As Doyle prepares to make his final move toward a dark

brings to the task all the interpretive acuity and literary elegance that distinguished his previous biographies of Theodore Roosevelt

why our enemies are actively contemplating them

and offers insights into the events of three decades

Avid Reader: A Life Viking Mama is raring to goWinner of the Anne M. Sperber Prize A spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his time. After editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster. By the time he left to run Alfred A. Knopf a dozen years later, he was the editor in chief, having discovered and edited Catch 22 and The American Way of Death, among