| Edition |
[1st ed.]. |
| Description |
775 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
The conquest of Mt. Everest / by Sir Edmund Hillary -- Parachuting for fun / by Loudon Wainwright -- What it's like to fly into space / by Warren R. Young -- Eugene O'Neill comes back to Broadway / by Tom Prideaux -- The art of El Greco / by Aldous Huxley -- The private world of William Faulkner / by Robert Coughlan -- The American century / by Henry R. Luce -- The end of a dark age in Russia / bu Whittaker Chambers -- The educated man / by Jacques Barzun -- A divided South searches its soul / by Robert Penn Warren -- Woman, love and God : a Life editorial -- The Arab world's angry nationalism / by Keith Wheeler -- Lead-- or get left behind / by John F. Kennedy -- The Supreme Court at the crossroads / by John Osborne -- Joseph Stalin : an appraisal / by Leon Trotsky -- The Battle of Britain / by Winston S. Churchill. |
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Crusade in Europe / by Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Bitterness on the road to victory / by Field-Marshall Montgomery -- The last days of Hitler / by H.R. Trevor-Roper -- My first days in the White House / by Harry S. Truman -- The war MacArthur was not allowed to win / by Major General Courtney Whitney -- An appreciation of John Foster Dulles / by Richard M. Nixon -- The brutal tale of a teen-age gang leader (as told to Ira Henry Freeman) -- The last days of Anne Frank / by Ernst Schnabel -- The Norman conquest / by Winston S. Churchill -- Italy's myth of America / by Carlo Levi -- Comedy's greatest era / by James Agee -- The meaning of the West / by A.B. Guthrie, Jr. |
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What the Jews believe / by Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein -- The world, the flesh and the devil / by John K. Jessup -- Europe in the spring / by Clare Boothe Luce -- The big days in Normandy / by Charles C. Wertenbaker -- Joe is home now / by John Hersey -- The atom bomb and future war / by Hanson W. Baldwin -- The brave men of No Name Ridge / by James Bell -- What Korea was realy like / by Lt. John W. Harper -- The earth is born / by Lincoln Barnett -- The edge of the sea / by Rachel Carson -- The starry universe / by Lincoln Barnett. |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
United States -- Civilization -- 20th century -- Literary collections.
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United States. |
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Civilization. |
| Genre/Form |
Literary collections.
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| Subject |
English literature -- 20th century.
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English literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Literature.
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Literature.
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| Added Title |
Life (Chicago, Ill.) https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2009180746
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