A university press in the south -- Culture in the south -- Books that ought to be written -- A case history in book publishing -- Objectivity and social science -- The sainted book burners -- Do intellectuals have minds? -- The human potential for modernism -- The word and the rope
Summary
"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. Couch was committed to publishing and strove to disturb American complacency. This first book-length biography of Couch covers the career of a publisher who brought academic scholarship to the public"-- Provided by publisher
