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A Country in the Mind: Wallace Stegner, Bernard Devoto, History, and the American Land
Contributor(s): Thomas, John L. (Author)

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 ISBN: 041592782X     ISBN-13: 9780415927826
Publisher: Routledge
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2002
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Annotation: 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.
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American - General
Dewey: 813.520
LCCN: 00036631
Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.26" W x 7.96" L (0.71 lbs) 208 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Western U.S.
Features: Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
 
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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.
 
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