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Country in the Mind : Wallace Stegner, Bernard Devoto, History, and the American Land by John L. Thomas (2002, Uk-B Format Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRoutledge

ISBN-10041592782X

ISBN-139780415927826

eBay Product ID (ePID)18038281485

Product Key Features

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameCountry in the Mind : Wallace Stegner, Bernard Devoto, History, and the American Land

SubjectGeneral, American / General, United States / General

Publication Year2002

TypeTextbook

AuthorJohn L. Thomas

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, History

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight11.2 Oz

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

TitleLeadingA

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal813/.52093278

SynopsisIn this beautifully written essay, John L. Thomas details an intimate portrait of the intellectual friendship between two commanding figures of western letters and the early environmental movement -- Wallace Stegner and Bernard DeVoto. The authors of enormously popular works, they also played important roles in the efforts to stop government and private interests from carving up the vanishing West. Thomas places the two men in a vibrant American tradition and chronicles their support of a national commons owned and cared for by all its citizens. The popular works of Wallace Stegner and Bernard DeVoto remain in print decades after they were first published, and, as Thomas makes clear in this illuminating account, their concern for the western environment continues to resonate today. Book jacket., In this beautifully written account, John Thomas details an intimate portrait of the intellectual friendship between two commanding figures of western letters and the early environmental movement--Wallace Stegner and Bernard DeVoto.. The authors of enormously popular works--Stegner most well known for his novels The Big Rock Candy Mountain and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose and DeVoto for his classic history of western exploration, The Course of Empire --they also played important roles in the efforts to stop government and private interests from carving up the vanishing West. Part of the fractious group of public intellectuals at Harvard that included Edmund Wilson, Mary McCarthy, and Arthur Schlesinger, Sr., they saw no contradiction between their literary and political selves and entered the public debate with conviction and passion. Drawing on their writings, personal correspondence, and dozens of articles from the pages of Harper's, where DeVoto was a columnist for years, this illuminating account demonstrates how their concerns for the western environment continue to resonate today., In this beautifully written account, John Thomas details an intimate portrait of the intellectual friendship between two commanding figures of western letters and the early environmental movement--Wallace Stegner and Bernard DeVoto.. The authors of enormously popular works--Stegner most well known for his novels The Big Rock Candy Mountain and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose and DeVoto for his classic history of western exploration, The Course of Empire--they also played important roles in the efforts to stop government and private interests from carving up the vanishing West. Part of the fractious group of public intellectuals at Harvard that included Edmund Wilson, Mary McCarthy, and Arthur Schlesinger, Sr., they saw no contradiction between their literary and political selves and entered the public debate with conviction and passion. Drawing on their writings, personal correspondence, and dozens of articles from the pages of Harper's, where DeVoto was a columnist for years, this illuminating account demonstrates how their concerns for the western environment continue to resonate today.