CSPAN2 Interview With Drake McFeely July 16, 2016
The firm was founded in 1923. Began publishing mostly trade books. The original book had academic plant to them because mr. And mrs. Norton like to go to the peoples institute which is a sort of adulteducation branch, cooper union in new york city and one can imagine mrs. Norton tugging and saying, someone should publish these lectures. It was mr. Norton kept his day job in importexport industry but began to published from the peoples institute. We were first founded at peoples Institute Press and operated under that name for three years. Mr. Norton 1926, the firm was reincorporated as w. W. N...