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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.
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American Public Figures Communicate Through Memoirs, Heinz-Dietrich Fischer
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2020
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- Titel
- American Public Figures Communicate Through Memoirs
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Heinz-Dietrich Fischer
- Verlag
- LIT Verlag
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2020
- Einband
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 3643912951
- ISBN13
- 9783643912954
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Sozialwissenschaften, Politikwissenschaft
- Beschreibung
- 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.