Download or read book The Temper of the West written by William Jovanovich and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Second World War intervened while Jovanovich was at Harvard, and he spent the war years as an officer in the U.S. Navy. After the war, Jovanovich studied briefly at Columbia University, where he was writing a dissertation on Emerson. Dropping out because of a lack of funds, he became a college traveler for Harcourt, Brace, and Company in 1947. By 1954 he was president of the company, which in 1970 became Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. When Jovanovich retired in 1991, HBJ was one of the largest publishers in the world.".