[2] Rinehart began his career in publishing as a worker in the shipping room at George H. Doran.
After Farrar & Rinehart acquired the Cosmopolitan Book Corporation from William Randolph Hearst in 1931, the company began a new division to publish college textbooks.
[7] Rinehart & Company achieved recognition for publishing the first books in Charles Schulz's Peanuts series, as well as works by Faith Baldwin, Stephen Vincent Benét, Norman Mailer, and Erich Fromm.
[6] In 1953, the company published The Wonderful World of Insects [8] as the first book printed by the Photon (known as the Lumitype in France), a photographic type composing machine invented by René Alphonse Higonnet and Louis Moyroud.
[6] The Photon machine, known as the Lumitype in France, used a photoengraving process to print text and images on paper, which made hotel metal typesetting obsolete.