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"Getting a good book written is the author's responsibility. Getting a book published is the agent's responsibility. With this book, Art Klebanoff will have done both. In this book, you will learn what a good agent does and how he or she does it."

-Bill Bradley, former u.s. Senator and Presidential Candidate

"The Agent provides a unique, insider's view of the book business from the perspective of a master dealmaker. Art Klebanoff tells the story behind the stories, and in so doing, provides a fascinating account of the business and important insights into how we will read, buy, and appreciate books tomorrow."

-Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg LP and New York City Mayor

"Fascinating"

-Jason Epstein, former Editorial Director, Random House and Co-founder, New York Review of Books'

"I have known Arthur Klebanoff for thirty years. His book illustrates how politics at its best makes a difference. Publishing on political subjects has a proud tradition and Arthur has been one of its leading advocates."

-Chuck Schurner, U.S. Senator, New York

"Arthur Klebanoff's provocative new book, The Agent, is an insider's peek at publishing. No one who wants to understand the business of the publishing industry will be disappointed. Direct and candid, Arthur shares important insights and the reader meets colorful and contradictory characters."

-Walter Anderson, Chairman & Publisher, Parade

"Arthur Klebanoff is my hero ---give him a lemon and he will turn it into a chain of lemonade stands. His story is refreshing and informative, candid and hard to put down."

-Peter Workman, President Workman Publishing Co.

This fast-paced business autobiography takes the reader through one of the most rapidly moving and far-reaching publishing careers. Arthur Klebanoff offers a rare glimpse into the previously rarefied literary world and the behind the scenes role of an agent.

From the White House in the late 1960s to founding RosettaBooks, Klebanoff, in rapid-fire fashion, rips through personal and professional accomplishments and his relationships with famous publishers, authors, politicians, and institutions, including the Vatican, President Richard Nixon, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sidney Sheldon, Judith Krantz, and Roger Tory Peterson.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Yale University and an editor of the Law Review at Harvard Law School, Klebanoff became a successful and active political consultant and a corporate lawyer. With the help of his partners, Mort Janklow and Jerry Traum, Klebanoff morphed into a literary agent and his initiatives on behalf of clients far surpass the role of a normal literary agent.

As one of publishing's most creative and cutting-edge agents and current CEO of the world's leading independent electronic book publisher, Klebanoff offers more than a good read-it's an education for anyone connected with the publishing world or indeed anyone who would succeed as an entrepreneur.