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Life Sketches

Life Sketches

John Hersey
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From Library Journal: Written over a 50-year span, this collection contains 18 profiles of the well known and the obscure. Hersey skillfully presents, for example, a day in the life of Bernard Baruch; John F. Kennedy's PT 109 adventure; and a lively personal encounter with Harry Truman. Just as probing and insightful are his profiles of the less familiar--a black Civil Rights activist, a missionary, and a widow threatened by flood. Although many of these pieces originally appeared in The New Yorker , the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Plain and unadorned, this effortlessly--or so it seems--captures the inner essence of its subjects. For most libraries.
- Mark R. Yerburgh, Trinity Coll. Lib., Burlington, Vt.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Language
English
Pages
377
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Knopf
Release
April 22, 1989
ISBN
0394577841
ISBN 13
9780394577845

Life Sketches

John Hersey
0/5 ( ratings)
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From Library Journal: Written over a 50-year span, this collection contains 18 profiles of the well known and the obscure. Hersey skillfully presents, for example, a day in the life of Bernard Baruch; John F. Kennedy's PT 109 adventure; and a lively personal encounter with Harry Truman. Just as probing and insightful are his profiles of the less familiar--a black Civil Rights activist, a missionary, and a widow threatened by flood. Although many of these pieces originally appeared in The New Yorker , the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Plain and unadorned, this effortlessly--or so it seems--captures the inner essence of its subjects. For most libraries.
- Mark R. Yerburgh, Trinity Coll. Lib., Burlington, Vt.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Language
English
Pages
377
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Knopf
Release
April 22, 1989
ISBN
0394577841
ISBN 13
9780394577845

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