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Jeremy Rifkin followed a like pattern, moving from the South Side of Chicago religious background to the Wharton School of Finance to radical politics. Both showed a propensity to indulge in short term, demonstration-oriented politics. They sought to radicalize the nation by publishing Bantam pamphlets on the rights of Americans, by dredging up the most radical notions of our Founding Fathers (for small farms, against a standing army). But the days of Jefferson and Jackson were long over and the once infant country now grappled with the more complex issues of corporate dominance and the contradictions of capitalism. Radical...
Nevertheless, the ever watchful godfather of The Godfather never missed a shuffle of the paperback poker game: "While I was playing tennis it was up to 1.6, something like that. Then after dinner it was 1.8. It was Ballantine, N.A.L., and up to 1.5 Bantam was in it. The last three were Pocket Books, Ballantine, N.A.L. Then at 9 o'clock I got a phone call. Ballantine and N.A.L. were up to 2.4. Then I got a final call saying that Ballantine and N.A.L. were at 2.5 and 2.55, and if it was O.K. with me, we'd take...
Last year Bantam Books President Oscar Dystel spread a little gloom among his colleagues when he cautioned that net unit sales?the actual number of. paperback books sold?have remained fairly static since 1973, William R. Grose, editor in chief of Dell, takes a grimmer view. "I used to think there was a ceiling on paperback rights. Now I don't know. The consumer is the one who pays for all this nonsense, and the consumer doesn't seem to have balked. Everyone you talk to will say it's an unhealthy situation, but no one knows what...
During most of his term as President, Leone was regarded as a benign, bantam-rooster fellow, who was blessed with a singularly beautiful wife. But he also had a fair number of political enemies, and one by one, as the scandal unfolded, they picked up the charges. Leone tried to ignore the demands, but then the Communists decided that "the resignation of the President would appear to be in order." Since Premier Giulio Andreotti and the Christian Democrats are able to govern only with Communist support, that was a challenge that Leone could not overcome...
There is at least one sign that Holocaust may do better than NBC executives expect. Earlier this month, Bantam brought out Green's paperback novelization of his shooting script, expecting the book to take off after the show went on the air. Much to the publisher's surprise, the novel hit a nerve with the public from the moment it appeared on the racks. Holocaust has already gone through eight printings (1.25 million copies) and is climbing on best seller lists. Not even Alex Haley's Roots had so wide a circulation before the airing...