A Writing Life : Revisiting the Past
A Writing Life : Revisiting the Past
by Stanley Weintraub
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0944318797 | 408 Pages | PDF | 81 MB
by Stanley Weintraub
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0944318797 | 408 Pages | PDF | 81 MB
A memoir by Stanley Weintraub in which he recalls his early childhood, his service in the Korean War, engaging behind-the-scenes stories of his many writings in history and literature, and the surprising array of prominent figures he met, from Ray Bradbury to Leonard Woolf—and so much more.
Table of Contents
Preface I: Making the Most of Possibilities
Preface II: Acquiring a Name
1 A Kid’s War I: Beginnings, 1929–1941
2 A Kid’s War II: The Real Thing, 1941–1945
3 Kid to Khaki, 1946–1951
4 Korea, 1951–1953
5 War in the Wards, 1952–1953
6 Golden Gates, 1953–1956
7 Beginning Again, 1956–1965
8 Beardsley and Beyond, 1966–1968
9 The Whistler Decade, 1969–1977
10 Victoria and Its Successors
11 Victorian Sunset
12 Pearl Harbor and After
13 Victorian Aftermath
14 Farewell, Victoria!
15 Wartime Christmases
16 American Wars
Epilogue
Afterword: Tributes to Stanley Weintraub
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