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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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  ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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.
Augustine: Later Works

Augustine: Later Works

Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.)

'Three main subjects are discussed in this volume. The first is Augustine's classic work on the Trinity. In this work we see Augustine at his best. 'On the Spirit and the Letter' is the subject of the second section.
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.
Beyond the Binary: Thinking about Sex and Gender

Beyond the Binary: Thinking about Sex and Gender

Shannon Dea

... for Augustine man reflects the image of God. 5 St. Augustine, On the Trinity, Book XII, Chapter VII, in Basic Writings of St. Augustine, Vol. 2,816. 6 St. Augustine, 814. 1 Martha Gulati and Henry R. Black, “Heart Rate Response 44 Chapter 3.
The Confessions of St. Augustine

The Confessions of St. Augustine

Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.)

Reveals the spiritual and ascetical life of Saint Augustine.
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).
Augustine in His Own Words

Augustine in His Own Words

Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.)

This volume offers a comprehensive portrait--or rather, self-portrait, since its words are mostly Augustine's own--drawn from the breadth of his writings and from the long course of his career
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).
The house of sun-goes-down

The house of sun-goes-down

Bernard Augustine De Voto

Original carbon typescript of the novel, with a set of the letterpress galley proofs for the book and an accompanying letter from the editor.
Orthodoxy in Arabic Terms: A Study of Theodore Abu Qurrah’s ...

Orthodoxy in Arabic Terms: A Study of Theodore Abu Qurrah’s ...

Najib George Awad

In his valuable essay on Augustine's influence on Byzantine theology, Josef Lössl offers the best detailed exposition in English of Augustine theology's presence and status that I could find. Lössl shows that Augustine's personal interest in ...
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: ...

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