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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Australasian Journal of American Studies
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Code Name Puritan
Author: Greg Barnhisel
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022664734X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
An insightful biography of an unassuming literary scholar—and spy—who transformed postwar American culture. Although his impact on twentieth-century American cultural life was profound, few people know the story of Norman Holmes Pearson. Pearson’s life embodied the Cold War alliances among US artists, scholars, and the national-security state that coalesced after World War II. As a Yale professor and editor, he helped legitimize the study of American culture and shaped the public’s understanding of literary modernism—significantly, the work of women poets such as Hilda Doolittle and Gertrude Stein. At the same time, as a spy, recruiter, and cultural diplomat, he connected the academy, the State Department, and even the CIA. In Code Name Puritan, Greg Barnhisel maps Pearson’s life, from his childhood injury that led to a visible, permanent disability to his wartime counterespionage work neutralizing the Nazis’ spy network to his powerful role in the cultural and political heyday sometimes called the American Century. Written with clarity and informed by meticulous research, Barnhisel’s revelatory portrait of Pearson details how his unique experiences shaped his beliefs about the American character, from the Puritans onward.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022664734X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
An insightful biography of an unassuming literary scholar—and spy—who transformed postwar American culture. Although his impact on twentieth-century American cultural life was profound, few people know the story of Norman Holmes Pearson. Pearson’s life embodied the Cold War alliances among US artists, scholars, and the national-security state that coalesced after World War II. As a Yale professor and editor, he helped legitimize the study of American culture and shaped the public’s understanding of literary modernism—significantly, the work of women poets such as Hilda Doolittle and Gertrude Stein. At the same time, as a spy, recruiter, and cultural diplomat, he connected the academy, the State Department, and even the CIA. In Code Name Puritan, Greg Barnhisel maps Pearson’s life, from his childhood injury that led to a visible, permanent disability to his wartime counterespionage work neutralizing the Nazis’ spy network to his powerful role in the cultural and political heyday sometimes called the American Century. Written with clarity and informed by meticulous research, Barnhisel’s revelatory portrait of Pearson details how his unique experiences shaped his beliefs about the American character, from the Puritans onward.
American Studies International
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Category : Educational exchanges
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Category : Educational exchanges
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1582
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Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1582
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Colonel Roosevelt
Author: Edmund Morris
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0679604154
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 785
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “Colonel Roosevelt is compelling reading, and [Edmund] Morris is a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level. . . . A moving, beautifully rendered account.”—Fred Kaplan, The Washington Post This biography by Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Rex, marks the completion of a trilogy sure to stand as definitive. Of all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one whose greatness increased out of office. What other president has written forty books, hunted lions, founded a third political party, survived an assassin’s bullet, and explored an unknown river longer than the Rhine? Packed with more adventure, variety, drama, humor, and tragedy than a big novel, yet documented down to the smallest fact, this masterwork recounts the last decade of perhaps the most amazing life in American history. “Hair-raising . . . awe-inspiring . . . a worthy close to a trilogy sure to be regarded as one of the best studies not just of any president, but of any American.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0679604154
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 785
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “Colonel Roosevelt is compelling reading, and [Edmund] Morris is a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level. . . . A moving, beautifully rendered account.”—Fred Kaplan, The Washington Post This biography by Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Rex, marks the completion of a trilogy sure to stand as definitive. Of all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one whose greatness increased out of office. What other president has written forty books, hunted lions, founded a third political party, survived an assassin’s bullet, and explored an unknown river longer than the Rhine? Packed with more adventure, variety, drama, humor, and tragedy than a big novel, yet documented down to the smallest fact, this masterwork recounts the last decade of perhaps the most amazing life in American history. “Hair-raising . . . awe-inspiring . . . a worthy close to a trilogy sure to be regarded as one of the best studies not just of any president, but of any American.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Index of Conference Proceedings Received
Author: British Library. Lending Division
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Category : Congresses and conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Category : Congresses and conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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American Studies Down Under
Author: Norman Harper
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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No. 1- are proceedings of the 2d- (1966- ) biennial conference of the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association.
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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No. 1- are proceedings of the 2d- (1966- ) biennial conference of the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association.
Historical Disciplines and Culture in Australasia
Author: John Anthony Moses
Publisher: St. Lucia, Australia : University of Queensland Press
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Papers by G. Blainey and R.H.W. Reece separately annotated.
Publisher: St. Lucia, Australia : University of Queensland Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Papers by G. Blainey and R.H.W. Reece separately annotated.
Historical Studies, Australia and New Zealand
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 714
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 714
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Australian National Bibliography
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 1488
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 1488
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