Abstract
The story of New American Library from 1946 to 1961 and of Victor Weybright, publisher whose talismanic phrase luster and lucre set cultural and financial formulas that guided this giant paperback house.Bonn employs gatekeeper theory of communication to account for much of NAL s success. Explaining this theory as Weybright applied it, Bonn notes that the tension on gate s spring is created by cultural contribution work is likely to make tempered by its projected balance sheet. Weybright brought harmony to conflicting interests of culture versus commerce; his goal was heavy traffic, high culture, or John Steinbeck, Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, Truman Capote, and Ernest Hemingway at dimly remembered quarter per copy.
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