John Day Company

Intext was sold to the Thomas Y. Crowell Co. In 1974.

• Status — Defunct • Founded — 1926 • Founder — Richard J. Walsh • Successor — Thomas Y. Crowell Co. • Country — United States • Headquarters — New York City, U.S. • Publications — Books • Numemployees — 250

Some of the many authors associated with John Day Publishing. • Chinua Achebe • Irving Adler • Peggy Adler • Anauta Blackmore • Scott Buchanan • Pearl S. Buck • James Burnham • Buwei Yang Chao • Stuart Chase • Peter Drucker • Albert Einstein • Langston Hughes • Sidney Hook • Jawaharlal Nehru • Patrick O'Brian • Franklin D. Roosevelt • Joseph Stalin • Leon Trotsky • Rexford Guy Tugwell • Lin Yutang

The Great Depression led to a steep decline in book sales in the early 1930s, this led to a small revival in pamphlet literature. Between 1932 and 1934 the John Day Company published a pamphlet series known as The John Day Pamphlet Series. In total, 45 were published. They are as follows: • Rebecca West, Arnold Bennett Himself • Stuart Chase, Out of the Depression—and After: A Prophecy • Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, The New Russian Policy: June 23, 1931 • Norman Edwin Himes, The Truth about Birth Control: With a Bibliography of Birth Control Literature • Walter Lippmann, Notes on the Crisis • Charles Austin Beard, The Myth of Rugged American Individualism • Rexford Guy Tugwell, Mr. Hoover's Economic Policy • Herman Hagedorn, The three pharaohs: a dramatic poem • Marion Hawthorne Hedges, A Strikeless Industry: A Review of the National Council on Industrial Relations for the Electrical Construction Industry • Gilbert Seldes, Against Revolution • George Sylvester Counts, Dare the School Build a New Social Order? (Special, 56 pages) • Hendrik Willem Van Loon, To Have or to Be—Take Your Choice • Norman Thomas, The Socialist Cure for a Sick Society • Herbert George Wells, What Should be Done—Now: A Memorandum on the World Situation • Victor Francis Calverton, For Revolution • Horace Meyer Kallen, College Prolongs Infancy • Richard Bartlett Gregg, Gandhiism versus Socialism • Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, Is There a Case for Foreign Missions? • Stuart Chase, Technocracy: An Interpretation • Albert Einstein, The Fight Against War. Edited by Alfred Lief. (Special, 64 pages) • Arthur Gordon Melvin, Education for a New Era: a Call to Leadership • John Strachey, Unstable Money • Ambrose William Benkert and Earl Harding, How to Restore Values: The Quick, Safe Way Out of the Depression • Everett Ross Clinchy, The Strange Case of Herr Hitler • Walter Lippmann, A New Social Order • Elwyn Brooks White, Alice Through the Cellophane • Osgood Nichols and Comstock Glaser, Work Camps for America • Louis Morton Hacker, The Farmer is Doomed • Archibald MacLeish, Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City • Committee of the Progressive Education Association on Social and Economic Problems, A Call to the Teachers of the Nation • Henry Hazlitt, Instead of Dictatorship • Stuart Chase, The Promise of Power • Matthew Josephson, Nazi Culture: The Brown Darkness Over Germany • Maurice Finkelstein, The Dilemma of the Supreme Court: Is the N.R.A. Constitutional? • Leon Trotsky, What Hitler Wants • Audacity! More Audacity! Always Audacity!, Published in Cooperation with The United Action Campaign Committee • Harold Rugg and Marvin Krueger, Study Guide to National Recovery: An Introduction to Economic Problems • Bertram David Wolfe, Marx and America • Marquis William Childs, Sweden: Where Capitalism is Controlled • Sir Arthur Salter, Toward a Planned Economy • Edward Albert Filene, The Consumer's Dollar • Rev. John Haynes Holmes, Is Suicide Justifiable? • Mary Catherine Philips and Frederick John Schlink, Discovering Consumers • James Rorty, Order on the Air! • Stuart Chase, Move the Goods! The last page of pamphlet 45 is currently visible on HathiTrust, listing all pamphlets in order.

• Creative Music Series • The Daughters of Valor Series • Finding Out About Geography • Finding Out About Science • Great Men of Science • Here's How Series • Let's Visit series • The Living Drama Series (Series editor: William Kozlenko) • John Day Books in Contemporary Education • The John Day Intimate Guide Series • The New York Times Survey Series • Our Neighbors series • Picture Aids to World Geography • The Reason Why Series • Scientists at Work Series • The World of Architecture • The Young Historian Series (Series editor: Patrick Moore) • The Your Fair Land Series