Free Press

Free Press is a book publishing imprint of Simon and Schuster. It was founded by Jeremiah Kaplan (1926-1993) and Charles Liebman in 1947 and was devoted to sociology and religion titles. It was headquartered in Glencoe, Illinois, where it was known as The Free Press of Glencoe. The Free Press was sold in 1960 and was then merged into the Macmillan Publishing Company.

In the 1990s, under the direction of Erwin Glikes, the Free Press became a publisher of politically conservative works, including The Bell Curve, Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man, David Brock's The Real Anita Hill, and Robert Bork's The Tempting of America. Glikes's success at the Free Press spear-headeded a trend toward conservative imprints, such as Judith Regan's Regan Books, Regnery Publishing, and Penguin Books's Sentinel imprint. Its focus has broadened since Glikes's death in 1994.

Notable books

• Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Infidel. New York: Free Press. ISBN 0743289684. OCLC 72701599. 
• Behe, Michael J.. The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism. New York: Free Press. ISBN 0743296206. OCLC 136958644. 
• Behe, Michael J. (1996). Darwin's Black Box: the biochemical challenge to evolution. New York: The Free Press. ISBN 0684827549. OCLC 34150540. 
• Draper, Robert. Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush. New York: Free Press. ISBN 0743277287. OCLC 145379548. 
• Fukuyama, Francis (1992). The End of History and the Last Man. New York: Free Press. ISBN 0029109752. OCLC 231335005. 
• Herrnstein, Richard J. & Murray, Charles Augustus (1994). The Bell Curve: intelligence and class structure in American life. New York: Free Press. ISBN 0029146739. OCLC 30913157. 
• Lind, Michael (1996). The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution. New York: Free Press Paperbacks. ISBN 0684825031. OCLC 34078354. 
• Lipset, S.M., Trow, M. & Coleman, J.S. (1956). Union Democracy. Glencoe, Illinois: Free Press. OCLC 229214985. 
• Mezrich, Ben (2003). Bringing Down the House. New York: Free Press. ISBN 0743249992. OCLC 53220540. 
• Ruddy, Christopher (1997). The Strange Death of Vincent Foster: an Investigation. New York: Free Press. ISBN 0684838370. OCLC 37268634. 
• Strauss, L. (1958). Thoughts on Machiavelli. Glencoe, Illinois: Free Press. pp. 348. ISBN 0226777022. OCLC 250465726. 
• RAND Corporation (1955). A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates. Glencoe, Illinois: Free Press. pp. 622. ISBN none. OCLC none. 

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External links

• Free Press homepage at Simon & Schuster
• List of Free Press titles
• Simon & Schuster imprint descriptions