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Van Loon: Popular Historian, Journalist, and FDR Confidant - Couverture souple

Minnen, Cornelis Van

 
9781349532131: Van Loon: Popular Historian, Journalist, and FDR Confidant
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1349532134 ISBN 13 : 9781349532131
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

Synopsis

Upon his death, Hendrik van Loon was described in The Times obituary as 'one of the most engaging products of the marriage between Holland and the United States'. One of FDR's true and closest friends, van Loon emigrated from the Netherlands to the United States at age 20, in 1902. Working as a historian, journalist, illustrator, and radio commentator, van Loon immersed himself in American cultural life from the 1920s through the '40s, until his death three months before D-Day. Van Loon's professional relationships and friendships with such distinguished persons as Sinclair Lewis, Van Wyck Brooks, H. L. Mencken, Albert Einstein, Herbert Hoover, and Fiorello La Guardia bolster his place as a celebrity of his times. This biography is an exciting and nuanced portrait of a man deeply involved in American cultural life in the first half of the twentieth century.

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À propos de l'auteur

CORNELIS VAN MINNEN is Director of the Roosevelt Study Centre in Middleberg University, USA and serves as Visiting Professor of History at Ghent University, The Netherlands.

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Éditeur
Palgrave Macmillan
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1349532134
ISBN 13 
9781349532131
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
369
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