Richard Grossman (publisher)

Richard Grossman (June 26, 1921 – January 27, 2014[1]) was an American publisher. Born in Chicago, he worked in the Army Signal Corps and advertising before going into the publishing business.[1] He started his own company, Grossman Publishers, after working for Simon & Schuster.[1] Later he worked in alternative medicine and psychotherapy,[2] including as director of the Center for Health in Medicine at the Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center; at Beth Israel Medical Center, and the Smith Center for Healing and the Arts’s program for cancer patients.[3]

Publisher of Ralph Nader's best-seller Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-in Dangers of the American Automobile,[1] Grossman went on to publish other books by Mr. Nader and his associates on air and water pollution, food and drugs, pesticides and coal-mine safety, all of which helped lead to the passage of major legislation.[1]

Selected books

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Richard Grossman, Crusading Publisher of 1960s, Dies at 92 By Douglas Martin, Feb. 1, 2014, New York Times
  2. In Memoriam: Richard Grossman, Psychosynthesis Quarterly: The Digital Magazine of the Association for the Advancement of Psychosynthesis, Volume 3 Number 2, September 2014 by Richard Schaub
  3. Richard L. Grossman, 92; publisher of Ralph Nader’s ‘Unsafe at Any Speed’ By Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, January 30, 2014
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