Bernard DeVoto (1897–1955)

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A Harvard University graduate and impassioned student and teacher of American history and literature, Utah-born Bernard de Voto held faculty positions at Northwestern University and Harvard University. He was also the second editor of the Saturday Review of Literature and for many years wrote "The vis mere Editor's Easy Chair" column in Harper's magazine. At Harvard, de Voto was the editor of the Mark Twain manuscripts and produced several works about Twain and his time. He is best known for his trilogy-The Year of Decision: 1846 (1943), Across the Wide Missouri (1947), and The Course of Empire (1952). For Across the Wide Missouri, he personally traced the western trails first blazed by Lewis and Clark. Although recent scholarship has changed many perceptions about the West, de Voto's splendid accounts continue to have wide appeal. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre

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Kanonisk navn: DeVoto, Bernard
Juridisk navn: DeVoto, Bernard Augustine
Andre navne: August, John
Hewes, Cady
Fødselsdato: 1897-01-11
Dødsdag: 1955-11-13
Køn: male
Nationalitet: USA
Fødested: Ogden, Utah, USA
Dødssted: New York, New York, USA
Dødsårsag: heart attack
Bopæl: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Uddannelse: Harvard College (AB|1920)
Erhverv: historian
curator
editor
critic
novelist
essayist
Relationer: Devoto, Avis (wife)
Devoto, Mark (son)
Organisationer: Northwestern University
Harper's Magazine
The Saturday Review
Bread Loaf School of English
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
United States Army (WWI)
Priser og hædersbevisninger: American Academy of Arts and Letters (1948)
Pulitzer Prize for History (1948)
Bancroft Prize (1948)
National Book Award for Nonfiction (1953)
Phi Beta Kappa (1920)
American Antiquarian Society (1945)
Kort biografi: Born in Ogden, Utah to a Catholic mother and a Mormon father, Bernard De Voto became a historian, critic, novelist, educator, conservationist, and an authority on the life and works of Mark Twain.

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The Course of Empire. With maps by Erwin Raisz af Bernard DeVoto

Excellent and insightful. Could have used an editor

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Viking_Curmudgeon | 2 andre anmeldelser | Jan 26, 2024 |

The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto af Bernard DeVoto

I won this book from Goodreads so I'm sorry to say I didn't care for it. The original copyright is 1948. It seems like it would fit right in on Mad Men but it was hard to enjoy in 2010.

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ellink | 7 andre anmeldelser | Jan 22, 2024 |

The Year of Decision 1846 af Bernard DeVoto

Excellent but Devoto does like to ramble on

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Viking_Curmudgeon | 7 andre anmeldelser | Dec 9, 2023 |

Letters from the Earth af Mark Twain

America's greatest satirist takes on the not so Holy Bible and thumps it. Imagine the hymn to constipation sung on the Ark. Brilliant, laugh out loud sarcasm unleashed. Completely understandable that he left instructions for this not to be published until after his passing. The only ding is on this particular edition - no lettering on the spine and no page numbers But it was the only edition I could find readily available (I had lost a better edition years ago) and is still required reading. Highly recommended.… (mere)

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