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The Uneasy Chair

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Author : Wallace Stegner
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2015-02-18

The Uneasy Chair written by Wallace Stegner and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Bernard DeVoto was a wild intellectual from the Rocky Mountains, a rebel, iconoclast, and idealist who fled his stifling small town for the intellectual freedom and community of Harvard. While he settled eastward in his career as a novelist, professor, editor, historian, and critic, he continued to love, to a point of passion, western openness, freedom, and society. National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning author and fellow westerner Wallace Stegner's life intersected with Devoto's many times, first by accident and later by friendship and example. They were kindred spirits, both westerners by birth, upbringing, and demeanor, novelists by vocation, teachers by necessity, and historians and conservationists by a sheer compulsion inspired by the region that shaped them.

Briefe Engl The Letters Of Bernard Devoto

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Author : Bernard DeVoto
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975

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The Letters Of Bernard De Voto

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Author : Bernard De Voto
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975

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Bernard Devoto

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Author : Russell Burrows
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997

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The Selected Letters Of Bernard Devoto And Katharine Sterne

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Author : Bernard De Voto
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012

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Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955) was a historian, critic, editor, professor, political commentator, and conservationist, and above all a writer of comprehensive skill. As a contributor for more than thirty years to Harper's and other magazines, he was known for his forceful opinions. His essays were often brash and opinionated and kept him in the public limelight. One stinging essay even led the FBI to create a file on him. His five serious novels are forgotten today, but his magazine short stories and the well-paid potboilers that he wrote under a pseudonym (John August) subsidized the first of the significant works of American history that brought DeVoto lasting fame. Four of his historical works, all still in print, are The Year of Decision: 1846, a Book-of-the-Month Club selection in 1943; Across the Wide Missouri, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1948; 1953 National Book Award-winning The Course of Empire; and his popular abridged edition of the Journals of Lewis and Clark, which also appeared in 1953. A busy man with a busy life, DeVoto found time to write and answer letters in abundance. In 1933 he received a fan letter from Katharine Sterne, a young woman hospitalized with tuberculosis; his reply touched off an extraordinary eleven-year correspondence. Sterne had graduated with honors from Wellesley College in 1928 and had served as an assistant art critic at the New York Times before her illness. Despite her enforced invalidism she maintained an active intellectual life. Sterne and DeVoto wrote to each other until her death in 1944, sometimes in many pages and as often as twice a week, exchanging opinions about life, literature, art, current events, family news, gossip, and their innermost feelings. DeVoto's biographer, Wallace Stegner, states that in these letters DeVoto "expressed himself more intimately than in any other writings." Although their correspondence amounted to more than 868 letters (and is virtually complete on both sides), DeVoto and Sterne never met, both of them doubtless realizing that physical remoteness permitted a psychological proximity that was deeply nourishing. This volume contains 140 of their letters. They have been selected by DeVoto's son Mark, who has also provided detailed notes clarifying ambiguities and obscure references. Readers will enjoy these letters for their wit and literary flair, but they will also gain insight into the cultural and historical crosscurrents of the 1930s and '40s while taking an intimate and engaging look at a friendship forged entirely through words.

Bernard Devoto Assortment

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Author : Bernard Augustine DeVoto
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999-02-01

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Bernard Devoto

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Author : Orlan Sawey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969

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Bernard Devoto

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Author : Garrett Mattingly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977-01-01

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The Work Of Bernard Devoto

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Author : Robert Edson Lee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1957

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A Country In The Mind

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Author : John L. Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-27

A Country In The Mind written by John L. Thomas and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-27 with History categories.

In this beautifully written account, John Thomas details an intimate portrait of the intellectual friendship between two commanding figures of western letters and the early environmental movement--Wallace Stegner and Bernard DeVoto.. The authors of enormously popular works--Stegner most well known for his novels The Big Rock Candy Mountain and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose and DeVoto for his classic history of western exploration, The Course of Empire--they also played important roles in the efforts to stop government and private interests from carving up the vanishing West. Part of the fractious group of public intellectuals at Harvard that included Edmund Wilson, Mary McCarthy, and Arthur Schlesinger, Sr., they saw no contradiction between their literary and political selves and entered the public debate with conviction and passion. Drawing on their writings, personal correspondence, and dozens of articles from the pages of Harper's, where DeVoto was a columnist for years, this illuminating account demonstrates how their concerns for the western environment continue to resonate today.