Marzani & Munsell

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Marzani & Munsell
Founded1954
Founders Carl Marzani
Angus Cameron (publisher)
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters location New York City, New York, USA
Publication typesBooks

Marzani & Munsell (1955-1967) was an American book publisher of the mid-20th Century, based in Manhattan, which published liberal and leftist books, starting with False Witness by Harvey Matusow. [1]

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History

After release from prison in 1951, Carl Marzani joined Cameron Associates and partnered with Angus Cameron to run Liberty Book Club. Marzani & Munsell formed as a book club (in an unclear relationship with Alexander Ector Orr Munsell, "that unusual combination of a practicing Christian and a practicing Marxist" per Carl Marzani, [2] and son and heir of Albert Henry Munsell) and also operated what had become the Library-Prometheus Book Club. Together, the two book clubs, with some 8,000 members, published and distributed many books following their progressive ideology. [3]

In a later interview, Marzani described his publishing house:

We also had a very distinguished list – we had the first book on the Rosenbergs, the first book on FBI informers, a the first book on black armed self-defense, b and so on. We also had an outlet for the blacklisted writers – we published novels and other writings by Ring Lardner Jr., c Alvah Bessie, Abe Polonsky, Albert Maltz. We also did an enormous amount of pamphlets, four or five every year – on the Bay of Pigs, on Vietnam, the Warren Report – there wasn't a major issue we didn't put out something on. We were a major influence among two or three others – the National Guardian, Monthly Review – during the years I call the American resistance to McCarthyism. [4]

In 1959 when Cameron left for at job at Knopf, Marzani became president. [1] Marzani and Munsell publishing house "was destroyed in a mysterious fire" in 1966, ending the run of books, pamphlets, broadsheets and reprints. [1] [3] Marzani later described the loss: "It destroyed our stock, our lists, everything, and we had no insurance." [4]

Alleged espionage

According to allegations made in 1994 by Oleg Kalugin, a retired KGB officer, Marzani was a contact for the Soviet secret police agency, the KGB, while running Marzani & Munsell, and the KGB subsidized his publishing house in the 1960s. [5] Allegedly, the amounts were $15,000 in 1960, then a two-year grant in 1961 of $55,000. [3]

Legacy

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Harry Bridges (1937) corresponded with Marzani & Munsell

Tamiment Library at New York University houses papers of Marzani & Munsell, whose principle correspondents include: Angus Cameron (publisher), Herbert Aptheker, Calvin Benham Baldwin (aka "C.B. Baldwin" and "Beanie Baldwin"), Cedric Belfrage, Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Harry Bridges, E. Berry Burgum, W.E.B. Du Bois, Barrows Dunham, Howard Fast, Royal France, Stefan Heym, Albert E. Kahn, Ring Lardner Jr., Doris Lessing, Walter Lowenfels, Albert Maltz, A.J. Muste, Carey McWilliams (journalist), Truman J. Nelson, Victor Perlo, Edwin B. Smith, Edgar Snow, Joseph R. Starobin, Anna Louise Strong, Harry F. Ward, and Ella Winter. [1]

Titles

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Marzani & Munsell published first USA translation of Antonio Gramsci's writings
Marzani & Munsell published Robert F. Williams's Negroes with Guns. Robert F. Williams.jpg
Marzani & Munsell published Robert F. Williams's Negroes with Guns .

People

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Marzani & Munsell published Cuba: Prophetic Island by Waldo Frank
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Marzani & Munsell published The Black Anglo-Saxons by Nathan Hare
Marzani & Munsell published A visit to Soviet science by Stefan Heym Stefan Heym (1982).jpg
Marzani & Munsell published A visit to Soviet science by Stefan Heym

Officers

Authors

Translators

See also

Notes

^a Harvey Matusow's False Witness.
^b Robert F. Williams' Negroes with Guns.
^c Referring to Ring Lardner Jr.

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  31. ↑ Baran, Paul A. (1962). The political economy of growth (2nd ed.). New York: Marzani & Munsell. OCLC   883701106 . Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  32. ↑ Heinemann, Margot (1962). The adventurers. New York: Marzani & Munsell. OCLC   1127920.
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  35. ↑ Snow, Edgar (1962). China, Russia and the U.S.A. Originally published as the last seven chapters of The other side of the river: Red China today. New York: Marzani & Munsell. OCLC   610268722 . Retrieved 7 March 2021.
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  62. ↑ Halstead, Fred (1966). Harlem stirs. Prologue by John O. Killens; photography by Anthony Aviles and Don Charles. New York: Marzani & Munsell. OCLC   9545106.
  63. ↑ Allen, Jr., Charles R. (1966). German Hand on the Nuclear Trigger. New York: Marzani & Munsell. OCLC   250481385.
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