Word: morrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...JOHN PEARSON 317 pages. Morrow...
LAST RIGHTS by MARYA MANNES 150 pages. Morrow...
Even at the height of his popularity, Richard Nixon was never "big at the box office," as one New York book editor puts it. As a result, publishers have not rushed to recruit past or present White House aides for books about the President. One exception was William Morrow & Co. of Manhattan. Last February, when Nixon still rode high, Morrow signed a $250,000 contract with William Safire for a book giving his insider's view as a speechwriter during the President's first term. Safire, the resident White House wit until he resigned to become...
...publisher wants to drop the book and has told Safire to return an $83,000 advance. Lawrence Hughes, president of Morrow, claimed last week that the manuscript was "editorially unacceptable," despite Safire's claim that Morrow editors read five chapters - and voiced no qualms - before the contract was signed. But Safire insisted that the real reason is that Nixon's popularity has dived, thus making a "balanced" book about Nixon less likely to sell. Other publishers agree with Safire's assessment of the market. "The only book that would sell well would be one that exposed Nixon...
...Morrow. $24.95. An ambitious attempt to survey and characterize American painting from colonial times to the present. The book is useful in that it handsomely gathers a vast amount of information as well as some 330 well-chosen illustrations. But of the six essays that make up the text, only those by Dartmouth Art Professor John Wilmerding and Dore Ashton are really good. The others range from the merely competent to the opaque. Another complaint: several abstract paintings are reproduced standing on their left sides-without indicating this curious fact to the reader...