An account of the book publisher who is home to more Nobel Prize-winning writers than any other publishing house in the world reveals the era and city that built FSG through the stories of two men--Roger Straus and Robert Giroux.

Introduction. A long and beautiful life -- An "our crowd" story -- Furor, stress -- The Golden Boy of publishing -- Protestant, Catholic, Jew -- Not a new look but a nice view -- The new sensibility -- King of the book fair -- Egg-bound -- This classy little yacht -- A fraught summer -- A little less hothouse literary -- The day of the jackal -- Profit and loss -- Chairman -- An embarrassment of riches -- Change.