McCormick, Ken Papers

Editor in Chief, Doubleday & Company, 1942-1971

The papers of Ken McCormick consist mostly of correspondence between McCormick and Harry S. Truman, and other correspondence relating to the publication of Truman's Memoirs.

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Size: 2.5 linear inches (about 100 pages).
Access: Open.
Copyright: The Truman Library received no donation of copyright with this collection.
Processed by:
Updated by: Staci Sanders (2013) as part of the Truman Library Internship Program.
Supervising Archivists: Randy Sowell and David Clark.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

1906 (February 25)		Born Kenneth Dale McCormick, Madison, New Jersey
1928		A. B., Willamette University
1930-1934		Clerk, Doubleday & Co.'s Pennsylvania Station bookstore, New York, New York
1934-1938		Editorial Department, Doubleday & Co.
1938-1942		Chief Associate Editor, Doubleday & Co.
1942-1971		Editor in Chief, Doubleday & Co.
1948-1971		Vice President, Doubleday & Co.
1949-1971		Director, Doubleday & Co.
1971-1987		Senior Consulting Editor, Doubleday & Co.
1997 (June 27)		Died, Manhattan, New York

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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

The Ken McCormick Papers include correspondence relevant to his work as Editor in Chief at Doubleday & Company. Early correspondence in the collection between McCormick and Harry S. Truman, Rose Conway, and Charles Ross relates to books sent to President Truman by Doubleday & Co.

Later correspondence between McCormick and Truman and between McCormick and others in the publishing industry relates to Truman's Memoirs, which were published by Doubleday in 1955-56. The papers also include a few printed materials and other items.

These papers consist of copies of original documents in the Ken McCormick Collection at the Library of Congress, Washington D. C. The historian David McCullough provided the copies to the Truman Library in 2006.

More information about the Truman Memoirs can be found in the Truman Post-Presidential Papers.

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