ABSTRACT
In the hubris of self-congratulation that attends academic fetes, scholars may easily forget the critical role of those who facilitate the dissemination and distribution of ideas. It is at this level that Jeremiah Kaplan has excelled and taught us much for these last forty years. He has throughout his distinguished career identified what is important in the social sciences with uncanny accuracy; and he has marketed important social research with unparalleled skill. Today, The Free Press remains a great arm of the social sciences. It has been joined by other superb publishing programs, like those of Basic Books, Academic Press, Methuen/Routledge, to mention but a few. Jeremiah Kaplan was a pioneer in the delivery of social scientific information and knowledge, and in publishing, not as an accidental but as a necessary profession of a special sort. All honor to he who, in the words of the Common Book of Prayer, has brought forth "the kindly fruits of the earth".
