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The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto

The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto

Wallace Earle Stegner

9 No one in search of a mind that liked conflict need look beyond Bernard Augustine DeVoto. During the fall, Stevens wrote a report on DeVoto for Noble Cathcart, the Review's publisher, who with Thomas Lamont, the financial angel, had ...
The Italian-American novel: a document of the interaction of ...

The Italian-American novel: a document of the interaction of ...

Rose Basile Green

BERNARD AUGUSTINE DEVOTO (1897-1955) Bernard Augustine DeVoto was the first writer of Italian ancestry to become a major figure in American literature. As Orlan Sawey has written in his volume, Bernard DeVoto, in the Twaynes ...
American History Awards, 1917-1991: From Colonial ...

American History Awards, 1917-1991: From Colonial ...

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1948 Award ABOUT THE CROSSING OF THE MISSOURI RIVER BY Bernard A. DeVoto Bernard Augustine DeVoto (born on January 11, 1897, in Ogden, Ut.) served - at the young age of twenty - as lieutenant in the United States Army during ...
W. Somerset Maugham

W. Somerset Maugham

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TH EA TRE New York, London, March 1937 106. Bernard DeVoto, 'Master of Two Dimensions', Saturday Review of Literature (New York) XV, 6 March 1937, 3 Bernard Augustine DeVoto (1897—1955) was professor of English at Northwestern ...
The Selected Letters of Bernard DeVoto and Katharine Sterne

The Selected Letters of Bernard DeVoto and Katharine Sterne

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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.
The Environment and the Press: From Adventure Writing to ...

The Environment and the Press: From Adventure Writing to ...

Mark Neuzil

MarkW. T. Harvey, A Symbol of Wilderness: Echo Park and theAmerican Conservation Movement (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994), 77. 75. Bernard DeVoto,“Shall We Let Them Ruin Our National Parks?” in DeVoto's West ...
Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in ...

Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in ...

Robert D. Kaplan

BERNARD AUGUSTINE DEVoto, born in Ogden, Utah, in 1897, studied at the University of Utah and Harvard and later became a columnist for Harpers for twenty years, until his death in 1955. DeVoto was the lyrical historian of westward  ...
The Western Paradox: A Conservation Reader

The Western Paradox: A Conservation Reader

Bernard DeVoto

This volume brings together ten of DeVoto’s acerbic and still timely essays on Western conservation issues, along with his unfinished conservationist manifesto, Western Paradox, which has never before been published.
The Year of Decision, 1846

The Year of Decision, 1846

Bernard Devoto

This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.
A Country in the Mind: Wallace Stegner, Bernard DeVoto, ...

A Country in the Mind: Wallace Stegner, Bernard DeVoto, ...

John L. Thomas

Time and the literary: the immediacy of information technology has supposedly annihilated both.
The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto

The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto

Bernard DeVoto

The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author turns his shrewd wit on the spirits and attitudes that cause his stomach to turn and his eyes to roll (Warning: this book is NOT for rum drinkers).
The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto (Large Print 16pt)

The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto (Large Print 16pt)

Bernard Devoto

The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Awardwinning author turns his shrewd wit on the spirits and attitudes that cause his stomach to turn and his eyes to roll (Warning; this book is NOT for rum drinkers).
Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History

Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History

Gary Topping

As HE SAT down to work one day in early 1928, Bernard Augustine DeVoto was in an expansive mood. His mood was not always buoyant, for he occasionally suffered from migraine headaches and bipolar mood shifts that had been known to ...
Italian-American authors and their contributions to American ...

Italian-American authors and their contributions to American ...

Olga Peragallo

BIOGRAPHY: Bernard Augustine DeVoto's grandfather, a Pied- montese cavalry officer, came to America to escape the hostility of an aristocratic Roman family whose daughter he had married, and settled in Ogden, Utah. A son, Florian ...
A Symbol of Wilderness: Echo Park and the American ...

A Symbol of Wilderness: Echo Park and the American ...

Mark W. T. Harvey

Albright is quoted in Glenn Sandiford, “Bernard DeVoto and His Forgotten Contribution to Echo Park.” Utah Historical Quarterly 59 (Winter 1991): 76. 49. “ There's Plenty of Scenery for Us Western Natives.” Denver Post, July 22, 1950; “ Shall We ...
The American West in 2000: Essays in Honor of Gerald D. Nash

The American West in 2000: Essays in Honor of Gerald D. Nash

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... and "News Items of Interest" 13 (summer 1948): 24-29. See also Bernard DeVoto, "Shall We Let Them Ruin Our National Parks?" Saturday Evening Post 223 (22 July 1950): 17-19, 42-48. 2 1 . Mark W. T Harvey, A Symbol of H ' ilderness: ...
The Farmer's Last Frontier: Agriculture, 1860-97: ...

The Farmer's Last Frontier: Agriculture, 1860-97: ...

Fred A. Shannon

973-975; Bernard [Augustine] DeVoto, Mark Twain's America (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1932), p. 58. 7 Pelzer, 'Trails of the Trans-Mississippi Cattle Frontier,” pp. 148-161; Parrish, The Great Plains, pp. 316-319; McCoy, Sketches of ...
Four Portraits and One Subject

Four Portraits and One Subject

Bernard DeVoto

B14 LEE FOSTER HARTMAN LEE FOSTER HARTMAN, EDITOR OF HARPER'S MAGAZINE, 193 1 - 1 94 1. A resolution adopted by the Board of Directors of Harper and Brothers, October 20, 1941. Tributes from Harper's Magazine by Elmer ...
Utah Historical Quarterly

Utah Historical Quarterly

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... Forgotten Contribution to Echo Park BY GLENN SANDIFORD ENVIRONMENTALHistoriaNs REMEMBER THE ECHO PARK controversy of the early 1950s. BERNARD DEVOTO AND FORGOTTEN CONTRIBUTION TO ECHO PARK GLENN ...
Manual For Life Style Assessment

Manual For Life Style Assessment

Bernard H. Shulman

Bernard H. Shulman, Harold H. Mosak. BERNARD H. SHULMAN Bernard H. Shulman, M.D. is a clinical professor at Northwestern Medical School and Lecturer at Rush Medical School. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the ...
Bernard

Bernard

Bernard Waber

Bernard is a dog sorely tried when his owners separate. He runs away rather than hurt either by his choice of owner and looks for new owners. Full-color illustrations.
Bernard Cornwell Untitled 1

Bernard Cornwell Untitled 1

Bernard Cornwell

The new novel in Bernard Cornwell's number one bestselling series The Warrior Chronicles, on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg.
Bernard Picart and the First Global Vision of Religion

Bernard Picart and the First Global Vision of Religion

Lynn Avery Hunt

In the work's seven massive volumes, Jean Frederic Bernard and the renowned engraver Bernard Picart invited readers to view religions and their institutions as cultural practices.

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