[2] He was "one of the finest history editors in all of American history…[and] helped make the Knopf imprint the most distinguished in the United States.
[1] Green specialized in editing autobiographies, biographies, current affairs, history, and public policy.
[4] He shepherded President George H. W. Bush and U.S. national security advisor Brent Scowcroft for A World Transformed in 1998.
[2] He also worked with historian Joseph J. Ellis on Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation which won a Pulitzer Prize for History in 2000.
[2] Green had a particular interest in international writers, overseeing books by Milovan Djilas, Vaclav Havel, Gabriel García Márquez, Andrei D. Sakharov, and Jacobo Timerman.
[2] He actually stole Márquez from Harper & Row based on his experience with Latin American authors.