Status
Defunct
c. 1939 (1939)
c. 1985 (1985)
United States
Morris Bartel Schnapper
Foreign Affairs: Stephen Duggan, Esther Brunauer, , Max Ascoli, Walter H. Lockwood, Brooks Ebeny, Ralph H. Lutz, Edgar Mowrer, W. C. Johnstone
Clark Eichelberger
Political Science: Kenneth Colegrove, W. Y. Elliott, Ernest Griffith, Lowell Mellett, Frederic Ogg, C. J. Friedrich, William E. Mosher, Ernest K. Lindley, Robert J. Harris
Economics: , Paul H. Douglas, Edwin E. Witte, Leon C. Manhall, G. T. Schwenning, David Cushman Coyle, Arthur E. Burns, Jacob Viner, Eveline Bumi, Herman Somera, George Soule (George Henry Soule Jr.)
Sumner Slichter
Sociology: William Ogburn, R. M. Maciver, Read Bain, Bruce Melvin, Mark May, Willard Waller, Harold A. Phelps, Edward All1worth Ro11, E. S. Bogardus
Social Welfare: Paul Kellogg, Walter West, Frank P. Graham, E. C. Lindeman,
Clarence Pickett
Labor: John B. Andrews, Leo Wolman, W. Jett Lauck, Hilda Smith, Elizabeth Christman, Willard Uphaus, Marion H. Hedges, , Frank Palmer
Paul Brissenden
Education: George Zook, Clyde Miller, Frederick Redefer, Floyd Reeves, Chester Williams, William G. Carr,
Carl Milam
Latin America: Ernest Galarza, George Howland Cox, Rollin Atwood, J. D. M. Ford, John I. B. McCulloch, Samuel Guy Inman
History: Guy Stanton Ford, Harry Elmer Barnes, Sidney B. Fay, Richard Heindel, Bernadotte Schmitt
Public Opinion: Harold Lasswell, Peter Odegard, Delbert Clark, Harold Gosnell, Harwood Childs
Religion: Henry Smith Leiper; Guy Shipler, Frank Kingdon, L. M. Birkhead, James Waterman Wise
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Legacy[edit]
In 1997, Peter Osnos, when founding PublicAffairs, asked and received permission from Schnapper to name his new publishing house after Public Affairs Books.[11]
Guide to America; a treasury of information about its states, cities, parks, and historical points of interest (no date)
Guide to America: pictorial supplement (no date)
Manual of ancient history by Elmer Louis Kayser. (1940)
Internal check and control for small companies by M. E. Murphy (circa 1940)
Progress of Pan-Americanism, a historical survey of Latin-American opinion, translated and edited by T. H. Reynolds (1943)
Going back to civilian life by the American Council on Public Affairs (1944)
Cartels; challenge to a free world by Wendell Berge (1944)
American policy toward Palestine by Carl J. Friedrich (1944)
Economics of demobilization by E. Jay Howenstine Jr. (1944)
Industry-government cooperation; a study of the participation of advisory committees in public administration by Carl Henry Monsees (1944)
Korea: forgotten nation by (1944)
Robert T. Oliver
Surplus war property: official documents of the Office of war information and the Surplus war property administration (1944)
Prelude to invasion; an account based upon official reports by Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War (1944)
Reorganization of Congress: a report of the Committee on Congress of the American political science association (1945)
National health agencies, a survey with especial reference to voluntary associations by Harold M. Cavins (1945)
Post-war markets; a guide based upon official information prepared by the Bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, edited by E. Jay Howenstine (1945)
Job guide, a handbook of official information about employment opportunities in leading industries by Sydney H. Kasper (1945)
Post-war jobs, a guide to current problems and future opportunities by Press Research, Inc. (1945)
Washington's dining out guide; forthright notes about the capital's restaurants, hotel dining rooms, night clubs, cafeterias, etc. by Morris Bartel Schnapper (1945)
Our American neighbors by US Office of inter-American affairs (1945)
American handbook by US Office of inter-American affairs (1945)
Enemy Japan by US Office of inter-American affairs (1945)
Veterans information directory; a guide to national, state, and local agencies through which ex-servicemen can obtain government benefits and private aid in the fields of business, employment, education, agriculture, social service, rehabilitation, etc. (1946)
Educational opportunities for veterans by Francis J. Brown (1946)
Endless horizons by Vannevar Bush (1946)
Palestine: problem and promise; an economic study by Robert R. Nathan, Oscar Gass, Daniel Creamer (1946)
Guide to public affairs organizations, with notes on public affairs informational materials by Charles R. Read and Samuel Marble (1946)
Unions and veterans by Anne Ramsay Somers (1946)
American names, a guide to the origin of place names in the United States by Henry Gannett (1947)
UNESCO: its purpose and its philosophy by Julian Huxley (1947)
Dictionary of international affairs (1947)
Full employment & free enterprise by John Herman Groesbeck Pierson (1947)
Reason and rubbish about the Negro, a Southerner's view by Elta Campbell Roberts (1947)
Palestine and the United Nations: prelude to solution by Jacob Robinson (1947)
Fishery resources of the United States, edited by Lionel A. Walford (1947)
Book publishing in Soviet Russia; an official survey based upon the data of the All-Union Book Department, translated by Helen Lambert Shadick (1948)
Mineral resources of the United States (1948)
Soviet views on the post-war world economy; an official critique of Eugene Varga's "Changes in the economy of capitalism resulting from the Second World War", translated by Leo Gruliow (1948)
Pattern of Soviet democracy by Georgiĭ Fedorovich Aleksandrov (1948)
Wool tariffs and American policy by, Donald Mayer Blinken (1948)
Marketing of surplus war property by James Allan Cook (1948)
Guide to American business directories by Marjorie V. Davis (1948)
Ideological content of Soviet literature by Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich Egolin, translated by Mary Kriger (1948)
Gandhi's autobiography by (1948)
Mahatma Gandhi
Role of the Soviet court by Ivan Terentʹevich Goli︠a︡kov (1948)
T.V.A. on the Jordan; proposals for irrigation and hydro-electric development in Palestine by James B. Hays (1948)
Rise and fall of third parties, from anti-Masonry to Wallace by William Best Hesseltine (1948)
Dictionary of labor economics by (1948)
Byrne Joseph Horton
Dictionary of modern economics by Byrne Joseph Horton (1948)
British rule in Palestine by Bernard Joseph (1948)
Idealogical conflicts in Soviet Russia by Sergeĭ Mitrofanovich Kovalev (1948)
Citizen participation in government, a study of county welfare boards by Helen Elizabeth Martz (1948)
Soviet interpretation of contemporary American literature by M. Mendelson, translated by Deming D. Brown and Rufus W. Mathewson (1948)
Palestine dilemma; Arab rights versus Zionist aspirations by Frank Charles Sakran (1948)
Processes of organization and management by Catheryn Seckler-Hudson (1948)
Truth about communism by (1948)
Dorothy Thompson
Prejudice and property, an historic brief against racial covenants by and Philip B. Perlman (1948)
Tom C. Clark
Economy of the USSR during World War II by Nikolaĭ Alekseevich Voznesenskiĭ (Russian Translation Program of the American Council of Learned Societies) (1948)
American men in government, a biographical dictionary and directory of Federal officials, edited by Jerome M. Rosow (1949)
Out of the crocodile's mouth; Russian cartoons about the United States from "Krokodil," Moscow's humor magazine, edited by William Nelson (1949)
What's doing in ... by Morris Bartel Schnapper (1949)
Guide to women's organizations; a handbook about national and international groups by Ellen L. Anderson (1949)
You can't win; facts and fallacies about gambling by Ernest Evred Blanche (1949)
Western union; a study of the trend toward European unity by Andrew Boyd (1949)
Control of the public budget by Vincent J. Browne (1949)
People know best: the ballots vs. the polls by Morris L. Ernst and David Loth (1949)
Goethe's autobiography, Poetry and truth from my own life, translated by R. O. Moon (1949)
Atlantic pact by Halford Lancaster Hoskins (1949)
Short history of the Middle East ; from the rise of Islam to modern times by George E. Kirk (1949)
African mandates in world politics by (1949)
Rayford Whittingham Logan
Realities of American-Palestine relations by Frank E. Manuel (1949)
Conflicting patterns of thought by Karl Přibram (1949)
Dictionary of guided missile terms by US Department of Defense, Research & Development Board, Committee on Guided Missiles (1949)
Conflicting patterns of thought by Karl Pribram (1949)
Truman program; addresses and messages, edited by Morris Bartel Schnapper (1949)
By 1983, the Post reported, Public Affairs Press had published some 1,500 books and pamphlets on political-social-economic and historical topics. In 1983, its current catalog listed 100 titles.[2]
Public Affairs Press often had Washington insiders add introductions and similar materials to its book, e.g., prior to their presidencies, introductions by John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baynes Johnson.
The most published author was Frederick Mayer (1921-2006), an educational scientist, philosopher, and proponent of global humanism who wrote more than sixty books, including eight with Public Affairs Press.
The Library of Congress has the following nearly 400 books recorded as published in Washington, DC, by Public Affairs Press:
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1970s:
Pub. Affairs Associates, Inc. v. Rickover
PublicAffairs
International Publishers
: M. B. Schnapper, Public Affairs Press (a Corporation of Thestate of Delaware), Appellants, v. William E. Foley, Director, Administrative Office of The U.S. Courts of the Supreme Court, et al., 667 F.2d 102 (D.C. Cir. 1981)