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Product Identifiers

PublisherRoutledge

ISBN-100415927811

ISBN-139780415927819

eBay Product ID (ePID)1702456

Product Key Features

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

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

Publication Year2000

SubjectSubjects & Themes / Nature, General, American / General, American / Regional, United States / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, History

AuthorJohn L. Thomas

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight17.6 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN00-036631

Dewey Edition21

TitleLeadingA

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal813/.52093278

SynopsisIn 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.

LC Classification NumberPS3537.T316Z93 2000