The John Day Company was a New York publishing firm that specialized in illustrated fiction and current affairs books and pamphlets from 1926 to 1968. It was founded by Richard J. Walsh in 1926 and named after John Day, the Elizabethan printer. Walsh was the editor and second husband of Pearl S. Buck. The John Day Company was sold to the Thomas Y. Crowell Co. in 1974.
Some of the many authors associated with John Day Publishing.
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. 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.