Family background, childhood; education at Andover and Harvard, A.B. 1937; LIFE magazine science editor 1938-1944; Henry Kaiser and American industry during and after World War II, assistant to Kaiser, 1945-1946; SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: purchase 1946, development, financing, advertising, special issues, circulation, subsidiary publications, anecdotes about staff, articles and scientists who wrote for magazine; views on nuclear arms and government control of scientific knowledge. The digital transcript and audio only contain the 11 sessions conducted by Frederick Peterson Jessup between 1981 and 1982, and not a later session conducted in 1996
Publishers and publishing; Periodicals--Publishing; Educational publishing; Science publishing; World War, 1939-1945--Equipment and supplies; Piel, Gerard; Kaiser, Henry J., 1882-1967
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1981-1996
Physical Description
533 pages
Note (Biographical)
Editor, publisher; interviewee b.1915
Note
Interviewed by Frederick Peterson Jessup on July 9, July 23, September 23, October 7, October 22, and December 9, 1981 and February 9, March 24, April 20, June 15, and August 5, 1982. Interviewed by Arthur "Tex" Goldschmidt on August 28, 1996