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9783643912954

American Public Figures Communicate Through Memoirs Pulitzer Prize Winning Autobiographies

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  • ISBN13:

    9783643912954

  • ISBN10:

    3643912951

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2021-01-27
  • Publisher: LIT Verlag
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List Price: $47.95

Summary

This volume presents significant phases in the life of twelve American public figures, based on their Pulitzer Prize-decorated autobiographical works. There are, for example, memories of the Aviator Charles Lindbergh about the final phases of his first nonstop transatlantic flight to Paris; Washington Post Publisher Katharine Graham tells the dramatic story of the newspaper's coverage of the Watergate Affair; Statesman Dean Acheson reflects his feelings during the early days of the Korean War; Novelist Norman Mailer remembers of his participation at the Anti-Vietnam War Demonstrations in Washington, D.C., while Diplomat George Kennan describes his various activities in Postwar Germany.

Author Biography

Heinz-Dietrich Fischer, EdD, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at the Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany.

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