Basic Books

History

Basic Books originated as a small Greenwich Village-based book club marketed to psychoanalysts. Arthur Rosenthal took over the book club in 1950, and under his ownership it soon began producing original books, mostly in the behavioral sciences. Early successes included Ernest Jones's The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, as well as works by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jean Piaget and Erik Erikson. The "godfather of neoconservatism", Irving Kristol, joined Basic Books in 1960, and helped Basic to expand into the social sciences. Harper & Row purchased the company in 1969.

In 1997, HarperCollins announced that it would merge Basic Books into its trade publishing program, effectively closing the imprint and ending its publishing of serious academic books. That same year, Basic was purchased by the newly created Perseus Books Group. Perseus's publishing business was acquired by Hachette Book Group in 2016. In 2018, Seal Press became an imprint of Basic.

Authors

Basic's list of authors includes:

• Stephon Alexander
• Robert Alter
• Edward E. Baptist
• H.W. Brands
• Zbigniew Brzezinski
• Iris Chang
• Stephanie Coontz
• Richard Dawkins
• Andrea Dworkin
• Michael Eric Dyson
• Niall Ferguson
• Richard Feynman
• Richard Florida
• Martin Ford
• Howard Gardner
• Jonathan Haidt
• Victor Davis Hanson
• Yoram Hazony
• Judith L. Herman
• Christopher Hitchens
• Douglas Hofstadter
• Leszek Kolakowski
• Kevin M. Kruse
• Lawrence Lessig
• Robert Nozick
• Steven Pinker
• Samantha Power
• Eugene Rogan
• Lee Smolin
• Jacob Soll
• Jason Sokol
• Timothy Snyder
• Tamler Sommers
• Thomas Sowell
• Ian Stewart
• Beverly Daniel Tatum
• James Traub
• Sherry Turkle
• Eric Topol
• Michael Walzer
• Elizabeth Warren
• George Weigel
• Steven Weinberg
• Frank Wilczek
• Bee Wilson
• Richard Wrangham
• Irvin D. Yalom

References

References

1. Vitello, Paul. (July 8, 2013). "Arthur Rosenthal, Academic Book Publisher, Dies at 93". The New York Times.
2. "Basic Books: 70 Years of Publishing Excellence, 1950–2020".
3. Doreen Carvajal. (August 22, 1997). "HarperCollins Selling Basic Books Unit to Venture Capital Firm". [[The New York Times]].
4. Natasha Onwuemezi, "Perseus sale to Hachette Book Group completed", ''The Bookseller'', [http://www.thebookseller.com/news/perseus-sale-hachette-book-group-confirmed-325625 1 April 2016]
5. (November 13, 2018). "Hachette Book Group Reorganizes Lines, Announces About 25 Layoffs As DiPreta Departs". Publishers Lunch.
6. (June 27, 2017). "The Jazz of Physics". Basic Books.
7. Alter, Robert. (1981). "[[The Art of Biblical Narrative]]". Basic Books.
8. (June 27, 2017). "The Half Has Never Been Told". Basic Books.
9. (February 5, 2019). "Dreams of El Dorado". Basic Books.
10. (June 28, 2017). "Books by Zbigniew Brzezinski". Basic Books.
11. (June 27, 2017). "The Rape of Nanking". Basic Books.
12. (June 28, 2017). "Books by Stephanie Coontz". Basic Books.
13. (June 27, 2017). "River Out of Eden". Basic Books.
14. (June 27, 2017). "Intercourse". Basic Books.
15. (June 27, 2017). "April 4, 1968". Basic Books.
16. (June 27, 2017). "Empire". Basic Books.
17. (September 2017). "The Featured Feynman". Basic Books.
18. (June 28, 2017). "Books by Richard Florida". Basic Books.
19. (June 27, 2017). "Rise of the Robots". Basic Books.
20. (June 27, 2017). "Frames of Mind". Basic Books.
21. (June 27, 2017). "The Happiness Hypothesis". Basic Books.
22. (September 4, 2018). "The Second World Wars". Basic Books.
23. (June 27, 2017). "Trauma and Recovery". Basic Books.
24. (June 27, 2017). "Letters to a Young Contrarian". Basic Books.
25. (June 27, 2017). "Godel, Escher, Bach". Basic Books.
26. (June 27, 2017). "Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?". Basic Books.
27. (June 27, 2017). "One Nation Under God". Basic Books.
28. (June 27, 2017). "Code". Basic Books.
29. (June 27, 2017). "Anarchy, State, and Utopia". Basic Books.
30. (June 27, 2017). "Words and Rules". Basic Books.
31. (June 27, 2017). ""A Problem from Hell"". Basic Books.
32. (June 28, 2017). "Books by Eugene Rogan". Basic Books.
33. (June 27, 2017). "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity". Basic Books.
34. "Jason Sokol".
35. "Bloodlands". Basic Books.
36. (September 5, 2017). "Why Honor Matters". Basic Books.
37. (June 28, 2017). "Books by Thomas Sowell". Basic Books.
38. (June 28, 2017). "Books by Ian Stewart". Basic Books.
39. (June 27, 2017). "Why Are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?". Basic Books.
40. (September 24, 2019). "What Was Liberalism? The Past, Present, And Promise of A Noble Idea". Basic Books.
41. (June 27, 2017). "Alone Together". Basic Books.
42. (June 27, 2017). "Books by Eric Topol".
43. (June 27, 2017). "Just and Unjust Wars". Basic Books.
44. (June 27, 2017). "The Two Income Trap". Basic Books.
45. (June 28, 2017). "Books by George Weigel".
46. (June 27, 2017). "The First Three Minutes". Basic Books.
47. (June 27, 2017). "The Lightness of Being". Basic Books.
48. (June 28, 2017). "Books by Bee Wilson".
49. (June 27, 2017). "Catching Fire". Basic Books.
50. (June 27, 2017). "Books by Irvin D. Yalom".