A Writing Life : Revisiting the Past /

In A Writing Life, Stanley Weintraub applies the biographical skills he perfected over a lifetime of writing to tell his own story. In doing so, he introduces us to a who's who of the twentieth century whom he encountered in his life and in his research, from Eddie Fisher to C. P. Snow, from Le...

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Egile nagusia: Weintraub, Stanley, 1929-2019 (Egilea)
Beste egile batzuk: Pharand, Michel W. (Argitaratzailea), Weintraub, David, 1949- (Argitaratzailea)
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Argitaratua: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Saila:1880-1920 British authors series ; no. 33.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Aurkibidea:
  • Preface I. Making the most of possibilities
  • Preface II. Acquiring a name
  • A kid's war I : beginnings, 1929-1941
  • A kid's war Ii : the real thing, 1941-1945
  • Kid to khaki, 1946-1951
  • Korea, 1951-1953
  • War in the wards, 1952-1953
  • Golden gates, 1953-1956
  • Beginning again, 1956-1965
  • Beardsley and beyond, 1966-1968
  • The Whistler decade, 1969-1977
  • Victoria and its successors
  • Victorian sunset
  • Pearl Harbor and after
  • Victorian aftermath
  • Farewell, Victoria!
  • Wartime Christmases
  • American wars
  • Afterword. Tributes to Stanley Weintraub by fellow Bernard Shaw scholars.