In 1978, U Thant's memoirs, View from the UN, were posthumously published, initially by the American publishing house Doubleday.

He later served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Governor of Puerto Rico ( 1929 – 32 ), Governor-General of the Philippines ( 1932 – 33 ), Chairman of the Board of American Express Company, and Vice-President at Doubleday Books, and as a Brigadier General in the United States Army.

Nelson Doubleday followed his father into the publishing business and served for years as president of the company, to be followed in 1978 by his own son, Nelson Doubleday, Jr.

Lieutenant Thomas " Stonewall " Jackson also served at Fort Hamilton and Captain Abner Doubleday served as the post commander in 1861.

Hellhound on His Trail ( Doubleday 2010 ) is about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the largest manhunt in American history to capture James Earl Ray, who pled guilty in 1969 and served the rest of his life in prison.

" The award was funded in Blanchan's memory by her grand-daughter, Neltje Doubleday Kings, an abstract artist who served on the board of the Council from 1985 to 1988.

Doubleday was promoted to major on May 14, 1861, and commanded the Artillery Department in the Shenandoah Valley from June to August, and then the artillery for Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks's division of the Army of the Potomac.

She had become known as the editor at Doubleday of Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl, among other books, and then worked at Dutton, McGraw-Hill and The Partisan Review.

In 1927, Doubleday merged with the George H. Doran Company, creating Doubleday, Doran, then the largest publishing business in the English-speaking world.

Cole subsequently became a letters correspondent at Newsweek, then associate editor for the SeeSaw book club at Scholastic, and then a senior editor for Doubleday Books for Young Readers.

in 1912, Knopf worked as a clerk at Doubleday ( 1912 – 1913 ), then as an editorial assistant to Michael Kennerly ( 1914 ).

All were published by Doubleday Books in hardcover, then by Avon Books, now HarperCollins, in paperback.

In 1976, Doubleday Broadcasting, then owner of KDWB, desired to purchase a station on the rapidly growing FM dial.

Eggs, Beans and Crumpets is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on April 26, 1940 by Herbert Jenkins, London, then with a slightly different content in the United States on May 10, 1940 by Doubleday, Doran, New York.

On 23 March 1951, Asimov met with his agent, Frederik Pohl, and Walter I. Bradbury, then the science fiction editor at Doubleday & Co., who had a proposal for him.

Ashmead then informed him that Doubleday needed the book in time for the next year's convention, which meant that Asimov had only three months in which to write it.

Doubleday then asked McKiernan to rewrite his story, placing the characters in a different fictitious world, and also to write a prequel supporting it.

Osborn then returned to Albuquerque where Doubleday Broadcasting, the then-new owners of radio station KDEF 1150 AM, hired him as sports director.

Beginning in 1978, an anthology series, drawing on some of the best work published in the magazine and mixing some new material, was published in hardcover by Doubleday and then in paperback by Playboy Press, soon after absorbed by Berkley / Putnam, which began a trend of parallel publication of increasingly infrequent issues of the magazine and a string of anthologies with an ever larger proportion of original fiction.

Abner Doubleday ( June 26, 1819 – January 26, 1893 ) was a career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War.

His father, Ulysses F. Doubleday, fought in the War of 1812, published newspapers and books, and represented Auburn, New York for four years in the United States Congress.

Also while in Washington, Doubleday testified against George Meade at the United States Congress Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, criticizing him harshly over his conduct of the Battle of Gettysburg.

After the Civil War, Doubleday mustered out of the volunteer service on August 24, 1865, reverted to the rank of lieutenant colonel, and became the colonel of the 35th U. S. Infantry in September 1867.

Although Doubleday achieved minor fame as a competent combat general with experience in many important Civil War battles, he is more widely remembered as the supposed inventor of the game of baseball, in Elihu Phinney's cow pasture in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839.

Chairman Mills himself, who had been a Civil War colleague of Doubleday and a member of the honor guard for Doubleday's body as it lay in state in New York City, never recalled hearing Doubleday describe his role as the inventor.

The Doubleday Hill Monument, erected in Williamsport, Maryland to commemorate Doubleday's occupation of a hill there during the Civil War, claims he invented the game in 1835.

Likewise Rohmer's publisher, Doubleday, refused to publish further additions to the bestselling series for the duration of the Second World War once the United States entered the conflict.

* Abner Doubleday ( 1819 – 93 ), Civil War general and purported inventor of baseball.

* Abner Doubleday, American Civil War hero and supposed inventor of baseball was born in Ballston Spa.

* Insight Team of the London Sunday Times, Yom Kippur War, Doubleday & Company ( 1974 )

* James Bamford, Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency From the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century ( New York: Doubleday, first edition, 24 April 2001 ), ISBN 0-385-49907-8.

America's Secret War was published as a 368-page hardcover by Doubleday in October 2004 ( ISBN 0-385-51245-7 ).

After serving in World War I, he joined his father's firm, Doubleday, Page and Company, as a junior partner.

* 2004-It's the Crude, Dude: War, Big Oil and the Fight for the Planet-Toronto: Doubleday Canada ; ISBN 978-0-385-66011-2

* Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism: A Call to Action, Doubleday, 2007, ISBN 978-0-385-52378-3.

The team and its mascot are named after Abner Doubleday, the Civil War general and Auburn native apocryphally credited with inventing the game of baseball.

Ghost Soldiers ( Doubleday, 2001 ), a World War II narrative about the rescue of Bataan Death March survivors, has sold slightly over a million copies worldwide and has been translated into a dozen foreign languages.

* A History of the Cold War ( Garden City, N. Y .: Doubleday, 1961 ).

* A New history of the Cold War ( Garden City, N. Y .: Doubleday, 1966 ).

* Tourtellot, Arthur Bernon, William Diamond's Drum: The Beginning of the War of the American Revolution, Doubleday & Co., Inc., Garden City, NY, 1959.

Doubleday fired the first shots from the Union in the defense of Fort Sumter in a " contest ..., as whether virtue or vice should rule " in America.

On July 2, 1863, Army of the Potomac commander Maj. Gen. George G. Meade replaced Doubleday with Maj. Gen. John Newton, a more junior officer from another corps.

Doubleday was a cadet at West Point in the year of the alleged invention and his family had moved away from Cooperstown the prior year.

The myth about Doubleday inventing the game of baseball actually came from a Colorado mining engineer.

* Bamford, James ; The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9 / 11 to the Eavesdropping on America, Doubleday, ISBN 0-385-52132-4 ; 2008

This story appeared only in The Silver Locusts, the British edition of The Martian Chronicles, the 1974 edition from The Heritage Press, the September 1979 illustrated trade edition from Bantam Books, the " 40th Anniversary Edition " from Doubleday Dell Publishing Group and in the 2001 Book-of-the-Month Club edition.

These setbacks prevented his finishing revisions of Island of Hallucinations, which he needed to get a commitment from Doubleday.

The Stars, Like Dust was originally serialised under the title Tyrann in Galaxy Science Fiction from January to March 1951, and was published as a novel by Doubleday later that year.

The Currents of Space was originally serialised in Astounding Science Fiction from October to December 1952 before being published by Doubleday as a novel the same year.

* 15-Book Reading Order as Suggested by Asimov Edited from the " Author's Note " of Prelude to Foundation Doubleday 1988 hardcover edition

Arguing that the trend towards centralization of Canadian publishing in Toronto has led to a monopolistic control of the Giller Prize by Bertelsmann and its authors, Henighan wrote, " Year after year the vast majority of the books shortlisted for the Giller came from the triumvirate of publishers owned by the Bertelsmann Group: Knopf Canada, Doubleday Canada and Random House Canada.

drawing from Two Little Savages, Doubleday ( 1903 )

drawing from The Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore, Doubleday ( 1912 )

page from Sign Talk of the Indians, Doubleday ( 1918 )

( Doubleday, 1986 ) ( 2006 reprint from Small Beer Press, ISBN 1-931520-18-6 )

At the age of 26, while employed as an assistant manager at New York's Doubleday Bookstore, he arranged for the hardcover publication of a story from The Smart Set Magazine ( November 1913 ), reprinting " A Flood " by the Irish writer George Moore in a limited edition of 185 signed copies.

He never intended it to be published, but when Samuel R. Delany heard about it from Zelazny, Delany convinced a Doubleday editor to demand that Zelazny give him the manuscript.

Tales from the Arabian Nights, Doubleday, A delightful children's version translated from the original Arabic.

* A World of Ideas II: Public Opinions from Private Citizens ( 1990 ), Doubleday, hardcover: ISBN 0-385-41664-4, paperback: ISBN 0-385-41665-2, 1994 Random House values edition: ISBN 0-517-11470-4