John Day Company

Some of the many authors associated with John Day Publishing.

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• Chinua Achebe{{cite journal |last=Lindfors |first=Bernth |date=Spring 1978 |title=A Checklist of Works by and About Chinua Achebe |journal=Obsidian |publisher=Board of Trustees of Illinois State University |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=105 |jstor=44491317 }}
• Irving Adler
• Peggy Adler
• Anauta Blackmore
• Scott Buchanan
• Pearl S. Buck
• James Burnham
• Buwei Yang Chao
• Stuart Chase
• Peter Drucker
• Albert Einstein
• Langston Hughes
• Sidney Hook
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• Patrick O'Brian
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Joseph Stalin
• Leon Trotsky
• Rexford Guy Tugwell
• Lin Yutang

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The Great Depression led to a steep decline in book sales in the early 1930s, this led to a small revival in pamphlet literature.{{cite book |last=Bloomfield |first=Maxwell |date=2000 |title=Peaceful Revolution: Constitutional Change and American Culture from Progressivism to the New Deal |url=https://archive.org/details/peacefulrevoluti00bloo/page/124 |publisher=Harvard University Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/peacefulrevoluti00bloo/page/124 124] |isbn=9780674003040 |url-access=registration }} Between 1932 and 1934 the John Day Company published a pamphlet series known as The John Day Pamphlet Series. In total, 45 were published. They are as follows:

• Rebecca West, Arnold Bennett Himself {{cite book |title= Arnold Bennett Himself |last= West|first=Rebecca |year= 1932|publisher= John Day|location= New York |isbn= 9780841494855|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=HRWWygAACAAJ}}
• Stuart Chase, Out of the Depression—and After: A Prophecy {{cite book |title= Out of the Depression--and After: A Prophecy |last= Chase|first=Stuart |year= 1932|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=dxVzQgAACAAJ}}
• Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, The New Russian Policy: June 23, 1931 {{cite book |title= The New Russian Policy: June 23, 1931 |last= Stalin|first=Josef V. |year= 1932|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=qiFLAAAAMAAJ}}
• Norman Edwin Himes, The Truth about Birth Control: With a Bibliography of Birth Control Literature {{cite book |title= The Truth about Birth Control: With a Bibliography of Birth Control Literature |last= Himes|first=Norman |year= 1932|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=tq6YGQAACAAJ}}
• Walter Lippmann, Notes on the Crisis {{cite book |title= Notes on the Crisis |last= Lippmann|first=Walter |year= 1932|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=1vvnGAAACAAJ}}
• Charles Austin Beard, The Myth of Rugged American Individualism {{cite book |title= The Myth of Rugged American Individualism |last= Beard|first=Charles |year= 1932|publisher= John Day|location= New York |isbn= 9780598886187|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=rCFLAAAAMAAJ}}
• Rexford Guy Tugwell, Mr. Hoover's Economic Policy {{cite book |title= Mr. Hoover's Economic Policy |last= Tugwell|first=Rexford |year= 1932|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=rSFLAAAAMAAJ}}
• Herman Hagedorn, The three pharaohs: a dramatic poem {{cite book |title= The three pharaohs: a dramatic poem |last= Hagedorn|first=Herman |year= 1932|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=riFLAAAAMAAJ}}
• Marion Hawthorne Hedges, A Strikeless Industry: A Review of the National Council on Industrial Relations for the Electrical Construction Industry {{cite book |title= A Strikeless Industry: A Review of the National Council on Industrial Relations for the Electrical Construction Industry |last= Hedges|first=Marion |year= 1932|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=7ENMAAAAIAAJ}}
• Gilbert Seldes, Against Revolution {{cite book |title= Against Revolution |last= Seldes|first=Gilbert |year= 1932|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=iJNJAAAAIAAJ}}
• George Sylvester Counts, Dare the School Build a New Social Order? (Special, 56 pages) {{cite book |title= Dare the School Build a New Social Order? |last= Counts|first=George |year= 1932|publisher= John Day|location= New York }}
• Hendrik Willem Van Loon, To Have or to Be—Take Your Choice {{cite book |title= To Have or to Be--Take Your Choice |last= Van Loon|first=Hendrik |year= 1932|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Nrw4AQAAIAAJ}}
• Norman Thomas, The Socialist Cure for a Sick Society {{cite book |title= The Socialist Cure for a Sick Society |last= Thomas|first=Norman |year= 1932|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=0RODQgAACAAJ}}
• Herbert George Wells, What Should be Done—Now: A Memorandum on the World Situation {{cite book |title= What Should be Done -- Now: A Memorandum on the World Situation |last= Wells|first=H. G. |year= 1932|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=3IpMAAAAIAAJ}}
• Victor Francis Calverton, For Revolution {{cite book |title= For Revolution |last= Calverton|first=Victor |year= 1932|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=-cfdxRT-bPkC}}
• Horace Meyer Kallen, College Prolongs Infancy {{cite book |title= College Prolongs Infancy |last= Kallen|first=Horace |year= 1932|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=V9BEAAAAIAAJ}}
• Richard Bartlett Gregg, Gandhiism versus Socialism {{cite book |title= Gandhiism versus Socialism |last= Gregg|first=Richard |year= 1932|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=5s61AAAAIAAJ}}
• Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, Is There a Case for Foreign Missions? {{cite book |title= Is There a Case for Foreign Missions? |last= Buck|first=Pearl |year= 1932|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=j30-AAAAIAAJ}}
• Stuart Chase, Technocracy: An Interpretation {{cite book |title= Technocracy: An Interpretation |last= Chase|first=Stuart |year= 1933|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=SFECAAAAMAAJ}}
• Albert Einstein, The Fight Against War. Edited by Alfred Lief. (Special, 64 pages) {{cite book |title= The Fight Against War. Edited by Alfred Lief. |last= Einstein|first=Albert |year= 1933|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=UQ85AQAAIAAJ}}
• Arthur Gordon Melvin, Education for a New Era: a Call to Leadership {{cite book |title= Education for a New Era: a Call to Leadership |last= Melvin|first=Arthur |year= 1933|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=WnVDAAAAIAAJ}}
• John Strachey, Unstable Money {{cite book |title= Unstable Money |last= Strachey|first=John |year= 1933|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=TuJLAAAAIAAJ}}
• Ambrose William Benkert and Earl Harding, How to Restore Values: The Quick, Safe Way Out of the Depression {{cite book |title= How to Restore Values: The Quick, Safe Way Out of the Depression |last= Benkert|first=Ambrose |year= 1933|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ntpHAAAAIAAJ}}
• Everett Ross Clinchy, The Strange Case of Herr Hitler {{cite book |title= The Strange Case of Herr Hitler |last= Clinchy|first=Everett |year= 1933|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=xvCgAAAAMAAJ}}
• Walter Lippmann, A New Social Order {{cite book |title= A New Social Order |last= Lippmann|first=Walter |year= 1933|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=hIQIYAAACAAJ}}
• Elwyn Brooks White, Alice Through the Cellophane {{cite book |title= Alice Through the Cellophane |last= White|first=Elwyn |year= 1933|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=8sNHAAAAIAAJ}}
• Osgood Nichols and Comstock Glaser, Work Camps for America {{cite book |title= Work Camps for America |last= Nichols|first=Osgood |year= 1933|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=yDtMAAAAIAAJ}}
• Louis Morton Hacker, The Farmer is Doomed {{cite book |title= The Farmer is Doomed |last= Hacker|first=Louis |year= 1933|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=llxMAAAAIAAJ}}
• Archibald MacLeish, Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City {{cite book |title= Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City |last= MacLeish|first=Archibald |year= 1933|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=SIweAAAAIAAJ}}
• Committee of the Progressive Education Association on Social and Economic Problems, A Call to the Teachers of the Nation {{cite book |title= A Call to the Teachers of the Nation |year= 1933|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=tC1LAAAAMAAJ}}
• Henry Hazlitt, Instead of Dictatorship {{cite book |title= Instead of Dictatorship |last= Hazlitt|first=Henry |year= 1933|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=EG5YAAAAMAAJ}}
• Stuart Chase, The Promise of Power {{cite book |title= The Promise of Power |last= Chase|first=Stuart |year= 1933|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=U49EAAAAIAAJ}}
• Matthew Josephson, Nazi Culture: The Brown Darkness Over Germany {{cite book |title= Nazi Culture: The Brown Darkness Over Germany |last= Josephson|first=Matthew |year= 1933|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=vNNMcgAACAAJ}}
• Maurice Finkelstein, The Dilemma of the Supreme Court: Is the N.R.A. Constitutional? {{cite book |title= The Dilemma of the Supreme Court: Is the N.R.A. Constitutional? |last= Finkelstein|first=Maurice |year= 1933|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=azkIAQAAIAAJ}}
• Leon Trotsky, What Hitler Wants {{cite book |title= What Hitler Wants |last= Trotsky|first=Leon |year= 1933|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ECi_PgAACAAJ}}
• Audacity! More Audacity! Always Audacity!, Published in Cooperation with The United Action Campaign Committee {{cite book |title= Audacity! More Audacity! Always Audacity! |year= 1933|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=1uJCAAAAIAAJ}}
• Harold Rugg and Marvin Krueger, Study Guide to National Recovery: An Introduction to Economic Problems {{cite book |title= Study Guide to National Recovery: An Introduction to Economic Problems |last= Rugg|first=Harold |year= 1933|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=XyJBAAAAIAAJ}}
• Bertram David Wolfe, Marx and America {{cite book |title= Marx and America |last= Wolfe|first=Bertram |year= 1934|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://archive.org/details/MarxAndAmerica}}
• Marquis William Childs, Sweden: Where Capitalism is Controlled {{cite book |title= Sweden: Where Capitalism is Controlled |last= Childs|first=Marquis |year= 1934|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=h8MDuwAACAAJ}}
• Sir Arthur Salter, Toward a Planned Economy {{cite book |title= Toward a Planned Economy |last= Salter|first=Arthur |year= 1934|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=KNwzAAAAIAAJ}}
• Edward Albert Filene, The Consumer's Dollar {{cite book |title= The Consumer's Dollar |last= Filene|first=Edward |year= 1934|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=T29MAAAAIAAJ}}
• Rev. John Haynes Holmes, Is Suicide Justifiable? {{cite book |title= Is Suicide Justifiable? |last= Holmes|first=John |year= 1934|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=wkkhGQAACAAJ}}
• Mary Catherine Philips and Frederick John Schlink, Discovering Consumers {{cite book |title= Discovering Consumers |last= Philips|first=Mary |year= 1934|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=_SBBAAAAIAAJ}}
• James Rorty, Order on the Air!

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• Stuart Chase, Move the Goods! {{cite book |title= Move the Goods! |last= Chase|first=Stuart |year= 1934|publisher= John Day|location= New York |url= http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3276602;view=1up;seq=9}}

The last page of pamphlet 45 is currently visible on HathiTrust, listing all pamphlets in order.

• Creative Music Series
• The Daughters of Valor Series[https://reshelvingalexandria.com/pub/series/daughters-of-valor Daughters of Valor], reshelvingalexandria.com. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
• Finding Out About Geography"History, geography can be interesting for young people", The Jackson Sun, 5 May 1972, p. 52.
• Finding Out About Science
• Great Men of Science
• Here's How Series"Tried and Tested Techniques of Filip Not Volsteadian", The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 July 1930, p. 43.
• Let's Visit series
• The Living Drama Series"'Destroyers' First Play in Living Drama Series", Chicago Tribune, 22 February 1942, p. 94. (Series editor: William Kozlenko)
• John Day Books in Contemporary Education
• The John Day Intimate Guide Series[New York After Dark in 1931 https://graphicarts.princeton.edu/2019/01/26/new-york-after-dark-in-1931/], graphicarts.princeton.edu. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
• The New York Times Survey Series
• Our Neighbors series
• Picture Aids to World GeographyAnita Brooks, [https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/anita-brooks/the-picture-book-of-salt/ "The Picture Book of Salt"], Kirkus Reviews, 10 February 1964. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
• The Reason Why Series"Little Science Books Ready for Bright Eyes", The Jackson Sun, 21 August 1960, p. 29.
• Scientists at Work Series"A Brief Look", The Daily Oklahoman, 25 January 1976, p. 135.
• The World of Architecture
• The Young Historian SeriesCurtis R. Burau, "More History for Pupils of Mankind", The Sacramento Bee, 13 December 1970, p. 144. (Series editor: Patrick Moore)
• The Your Fair Land Series"The Easy Way", El Paso Times, 29 May 1960, p. 90.

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