A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950 - Brossura

Schlesinger Jr., Arthur M.

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ISBN 10: 0618219250 ISBN 13: 9780618219254

Casa editrice: Mariner Books, 2002

Riassunto

A Pulitzer Prize-winning social critic recounts the first third of his life, during which he came of age in the American midwest and embarked on a career on the academic and political scene, witnessing the second World War and other historical events. Reprint.

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L'autore:

ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, JR., the author of sixteen books, was a renowned historian and social critic. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize, in 1946 for The Age of Jackson and in 1966 for A Thousand Days. He was also the winner of the National Book Award for both A Thousand Days and Robert Kennedy and His Times (1979). In 1998 he was awarded the prestigious National Humanities Medal.

Product Description:

This nationally bestselling memoir of America's most renowned historian tells Schlesinger's personal story--from his childhood in the Midwest through his student days at Harvard to the post-World War II years -- which parallels the history of America coming into its own as a world power. of photos.

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• Editore: Mariner Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0618219250
• ISBN 13: 9780618219254
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 592