William Terry Couch and the Politics of Academic Publishing: An Editor's Career as Lightning Rod for Controversy, by Orvin Lee Shiflett
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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. His editorial attacks on the social ills of the South earned him a reputation as a southern liberal. By the 1940s, his disaffection with New Deal politics turned him toward the right, resulting in his 1950 firing as director of the University of Chicago Press.
As a conservative, Couch sought books and articles that would sway general readers from what he saw as an intellectual torpor that accepted the growing role of government in American life. The liberals who controlled the presses found him dogmatic and irascible. When he tried to turn Collier's Encyclopedia into a journal of conservative opinion, he was fired as editor in chief in 1959. He ended his career as publisher for the libertarian William Volker Fund, which collapsed in the 1960s under charges of Nazism.
Couch was committed to publishing as a social cause and strove to disturb American complacency. This is the first book-length biography of Couch--a publisher who brought academic scholarship to the reading public to effect social, political and economic change.
William Terry Couch and the Politics of Academic Publishing: An Editor's Career as Lightning Rod for Controversy, by Orvin Lee Shiflett- Amazon Sales Rank: #3111248 in Books
- Brand: McFarland
- Published on: 2015-07-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.90" h x .70" w x 5.90" l, .80 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 276 pages
About the Author Orvin Lee Shiflett is a professor and chair of the Department of Library and Information Studies at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A Fascinating Biography of a Book Publisher By SK William Terrence Couch is well known to students of Southern culture but almost unknown to others. Similarly, while one assumes he would be well known by historians of American conservatism for his work at the University of Chicago Press and afterwards, he is not even mentioned in the nine hundred page American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia, the extensive American Conservatism: The First Complete Guide, or The Concise Conservative Encyclopedia, whose title is misleading in its modesty. Hopefully, Shiflett’s book will make him better known to all those interested in American cultural history, particularly the book world.Couch wanted university presses to issue books for the “general reader,” not merely a small group of scholars. Hard-headed and contentious, he battled with almost everyone throughout his long career. Moreover, at the University of North Carolina, he created enemies because of his liberalism; later, as he moved politically to the Right, he was pilloried for this at the University of Chicago Press and afterwards. He locked horns with some of the most prominent scholars and thinkers of his time, like H.W. Odum and Robert Hutchins.Those who have worked in publishing or academia will smile knowingly at some of the institutional politics which engaged him. Those who have been politically committed will be fascinated by his intellectual battles in that area.Shiflett’s scholarship is impeccable. Based on an enormous amount of work with published material, archival manuscripts, and personal interviews, this book is extremely well written. He is fastidiously objective on controversial subjects which would have most lesser authors displaying their own views.This is not the sole book written by Shiflett. Some years ago he wrote a highly readable work on the history of college and university libraries in the United States. It remains the best study of this important subject and I recommend it highly.With the growth of “progressive” political invective and post-modernist babble among university-based historians, it is a pleasure to read solid works like his.
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