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043 _an-us---
050 4 _aCT275.W457
_bW755 2020
100 1 _aWeintraub, Stanley,
_d1929-2019,
_eauthor.
245 1 2 _aA Writing Life :
_bRevisiting the Past /
_cStanley Weintraub ; David A. Weintraub & Michel W. Pharand, coeditors.
264 1 _aBaltimore, Maryland :
_bProject Muse,
_c2020
264 3 _aBaltimore, Md. :
_bProject MUSE,
_c2020
264 4 _c©2020
300 _a1 online resource (425 pages):
_billustrations (some color).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aBritish authors series 1880-1920 ;
_vnumber thirty-three
500 _aIssued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
504 _a"OED citations by Stanley Weintraub": pages xviii-xxi.
504 _a"Books by Stanley Weintraub": pages xiv-xvii.
505 0 _aPreface I. Making the most of possibilities -- Preface II. Acquiring a name -- A kid's war I : beginnings, 1929-1941 -- A kid's war Ii : the real thing, 1941-1945 -- Kid to khaki, 1946-1951 -- Korea, 1951-1953 -- War in the wards, 1952-1953 -- Golden gates, 1953-1956 -- Beginning again, 1956-1965 -- Beardsley and beyond, 1966-1968 -- The Whistler decade, 1969-1977 -- Victoria and its successors -- Victorian sunset -- Pearl Harbor and after -- Victorian aftermath -- Farewell, Victoria! -- Wartime Christmases -- American wars -- Afterword. Tributes to Stanley Weintraub by fellow Bernard Shaw scholars.
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
520 _aIn A Writing Life, Stanley Weintraub applies the biographical skills he perfected over a lifetime of writing to tell his own story. In doing so, he introduces us to a who's who of the twentieth century whom he encountered in his life and in his research, from Eddie Fisher to C. P. Snow, from Leonard Woolf to Pierre Salinger, from Ray Bradbury to Danny Kaye to Isaac Bashevis Singer, and he takes us inside his world of discovery and enables us to feel his passion and experience his relentless intensity for finding the letters, diaries and documents that reveal the important details of history. Weintraub was one of the preeminent biographers, one of the most distinguished military historians, and one of the most important scholars of playwright George Bernard Shaw of the last 60 years. He published biographies of American and English figures of political, cultural and military significance, including Shaw, Lawrence of Arabia, Whistler, Beardsley, Queen Victoria (which reached #1 on The Times of London bestseller list), Prince Albert, King Edward VII, Disraeli, MacArthur, Eisenhower, Marshall and FDR; he wrote histories covering aspects of the American Revolution, the Civil War, World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Korean War, and he wrote a series of books about wartime Christmases, including Washington getting home for Christmas in 1783, Sherman reaching Savannah for Christmas in 1864, the Christmas Truce of 1914, Christmas at the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, and a military escape from Korea at Christmas in 1950.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
600 1 0 _aShaw, Bernard,
_d1856-1950
_xCriticism and interpretation
_xHistory.
600 1 0 _aWeintraub, Stanley,
_d1929-2019.
650 0 _aLiterary historians
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
650 0 _aMilitary historians
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
650 0 _aHistorians
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
650 0 _aBiographers
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
655 7 _aBiography.
_2lcgft
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
700 1 _aPharand, Michel W.,
_eeditor.
700 1 _aWeintraub, David,
_d1949-
_eeditor.
710 2 _aProject Muse,
_edistributor.
776 1 8 _iPrint version:
_w(DLC) 2020936795
_z9780944318799
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _a1880-1920 British authors series ;
_vno. 33.
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/77280/
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_d234324