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Originally Posted by fjtorres
I notice that the assistant is also singled out. Obviously an entire team was involved and the "editor" was managing the team overseeing the project.
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Author Bryce Hoffman also thanks his agent's assistants, and assistants of Ford executives.
The book is an hagiographic portrait of a folksy corporate leader known for schmoozing with working level employees. Thanking of assistants seems to me in this spirit. Maybe the editor is really a project manager, or really a rainmaker, or, for all I know, a really vindictive SOB who wise authors flatter. But I wouldn't draw conclusions from the mention of assistants.
I don't know if Maxwell Perkins had assistants, but Alfred Knopf must have had them.