Richard Lee Grossman (June 26, 1921 – January 27, 2014) was an American publisher.

Early life, education and military service

He was born in Chicago and attended

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

, but left before graduating. He served in the

Army Signal Corps The United States Army Signal Corps (USASC) is a branch of the United States Army that creates and manages communications and information systems for the command and control of combined arms forces. It was established in 1860, the brainchild of Ma ...

and worked in advertising before going into the publishing business.

Publishing career

He started his own company, Grossman Publishers, after working for

Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster () is an American publishing company and a subsidiary of Paramount Global. It was founded in New York City on January 2, 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. As of 2016, Simon & Schuster was the third largest pu ...

. Grossman Publishers was sold to

Viking Press Viking Press (formally Viking Penguin, also listed as Viking Books) is an American publishing company owned by Penguin Random House. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim and then acquir ...

in 1968. Later he worked in alternative medicine and psychotherapy, including as director of the Center for Health in Medicine at the Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center; at

Beth Israel Medical Center Mount Sinai Beth Israel is a 799-bed teaching hospital in Manhattan. It is part of the Mount Sinai Health System, a nonprofit health system formed in September 2013 by the merger of Continuum Health Partners and Mount Sinai Medical Center, an ...

, and the Smith Center for Healing and the Arts’s program for cancer patients.Richard L. Grossman, 92; publisher of Ralph Nader’s ‘Unsafe at Any Speed’
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'', January 30, 2014 Publisher of

Ralph Nader Ralph Nader (; born February 27, 1934) is an American political activist, author, lecturer, and attorney noted for his involvement in consumer protection, environmentalism, and government reform causes. The son of Lebanese immigrants to the U ...

's best-seller '' Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-in Dangers of the American Automobile'',Richard Grossman, Crusading Publisher of 1960s, Dies at 92
By Douglas Martin, Feb. 1, 2014, ''

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'' 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.

Selected books

*''Choosing and Changing: A Guide to Self-Reliance'' (1978) *''The Other Medicines'' (1985) *''A Year With Emerson: A Daybook'' (2003) *''The Tao of Emerson'' (2007) by

Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champ ...

Lao Tse Laozi (), also known by numerous other names, was a semilegendary ancient Chinese Taoist philosopher. Laozi ( zh, ) is a Chinese honorific, generally translated as "the Old Master". Traditional accounts say he was born as in the state of ...

(Authors), Richard Grossman (Editor, Introduction), Modern Library, .

References

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