“On its face, the defenestration of Mr. Rosenthal signals the snuffing out of a leader who did his job with an old-fashioned boldness: a publishing executive who spoke with a knowing purr and cultivated a reputation for sneering in the face of the corporation that owned him.”
A profile of David Rosenthal, who was fired last week after 13 years as the publisher of Simon & Schuster.
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