Van Loon : popular historian, journalist, and FDR confidant /

This biography is an exciting and nuanced portrait of one of FDR's true and closest friends, a man deeply involved in American cultural life in the first half of the twentieth century.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Minnen, Cornelis A. van (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:World of the Roosevelts.
Subjects:
Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, > 1882-1944.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. > (Franklin Delano), > 1882-1945 > Friends and associates.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. > (Franklin Delano), > 1882-1945
Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, > 1882-1944
Journalists > United States > Biography.
Historians > United States > Biography.
Journalistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Historiens > États-Unis > Biographies.
History of the Americas.
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000.
European history.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY.
History.
Friendship
Historians
Journalists
United States
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: The Formative Years
  • A Troubled Youth in Holland (1882-1902)
  • Cornell-Harvard-Cornell (1902-1905)
  • Associated Press Journalist in Russia and Poland (1905-1907)
  • Historical Training in Munich (1907-1911)
  • Part II: In Search of a Place
  • Washington Years of Trial and Error (1912-1914)
  • The Great War (1914-1918)
  • Life in The Village (1918-1920)
  • Part III: The Jazz Age
  • The Breakthrough (1921-1922)
  • The Prince of Popularizers (1922-1928)
  • The Veere Paradise (1928-1931)
  • Part IV: The Thirties
  • The Educator (1931-1935)
  • For Roosevelt and The Arts (1936-1937)
  • The Prophet of the Coming Wrath (1938-1940)
  • Part V: The Great Fight for Freedom
  • The One-Man Army Division (1940-1941)
  • The Reincarnation of Erasmus (1942)
  • Living on Borrowed Time (1943-1944).

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