The Literary Mafia: Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature

An investigation into the transformation of publishing in the United States from a field in which Jews were systematically excluded to one in which they became ubiquitous

"From the very first page, this book is funnier and more gripping than a book on publishing has any right to be. Anyone interested in America's intellectual or Jewish history must read this, and anyone looking for an engrossing story should."—Emily Tamkin, author of Bad Jews

In the 1960s and 1970s, complaints about a "Je...