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Richard Lingeman is the longtime senior editor of the Nation, as well as a biographer, historian, and satirist. He began his career as an editor at Monocle magazine, and spent nine years at the New York Times Book Review as an editor and daily reviewer. He is the author of Sinclair Lewis: Rebel visa mer from Main Street; Theodore Dreiser: An American Journey; and Double Lives: American Authors' Friendships, among other titles. He lives in New York City. visa färre
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(eng) ISBN 0471574260 is the abridged version of Lingeman's 2 part Dreiser biography and shouldn't be combined with either of the other volumes

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Födelsedag
1931-01-02
Kön
male
Nationalitet
USA
Land (för karta)
USA
Födelseort
Crawfordsville, Indiana
Utbildning
Haverford College (BA)
Yrken
author
literary critic
senior editor, The Nation
Organisationer
US Army Counter-Intelligence Corps
Authors Guild
National Book Critics Circle
PEN
Society of American Historians
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ISBN 0471574260 is the abridged version of Lingeman's 2 part Dreiser biography and shouldn't be combined with either of the other volumes

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5097. Don't You Know There's A War On? The American Home Front, 1941-1945, by Richard R. Lingeman (read 7 Dec 2013) This excellent book tells of the years of World War II in the United States, and for those of us who lived through the war is filled with nostalgic rememberings, as it tells of war work, scrap drives, rationing, war movies, war songs, etc. I found some chapters very moving, especially those relating to the last months of the war and to FDR's death. There is also humor as the author relates some of the excesses of early war preparation, in such places as Kansas and Wyoming. The idiocy of the Japanese internments is told well. I reflected how the war was easier living on an Iowa farm, where we had little difficulty as to rationing--we raised our own vegetables and fruit and meat--the main rationing concern was as to sugar. This has been a sheerly enjoyable book, which I should have read long ago.… (mer)
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Schmerguls | 2 andra recensioner | Dec 7, 2013 |
Nostalgic look at the American home front from Pearl Harbor to 1945. Covers the industrial mobilization for war, rationing and shortages, war nerves, the changing demographics, the propaganda campaign, wartime books, movies, radio, and baseball.

I especially enjoyed the responses of cartoon characters to the war. Joe Palooka and Skeezix joined the army and Barney Google the navy, but Prince Valiant ignored the war, for obvious reasons. And Superman, for reasons not quite so obvious. Dick Tracy did naval intelligence, Mickey Finn joined the coast guard, and Smilin’ Jack the air force. Little Orphan Annie helped on the home front, as did Aunt Fritzi Ritz. And, as any old timer knows, Sad Sack joined the army.

Indexed, with bibliography.
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pjsullivan | 2 andra recensioner | Jul 14, 2012 |
It's been a long time since I read Mark Schorer's then-definitive biography of Sinclair Lewis, so it's difficult to compare the merits of this exhaustive work with Schorer's. Schorer had the advantage of more immediate sources; Lingeman was at a comparative disadvantage, writing this some 50 years after Lewis' death. But I did learn some things here that I don't think were in the earlier book, and it is undeniably well-written, comprehensive and tinged with interest by Lingeman's willingness to offer his personal evaluations of Lewis' life and work. That said, the book reinforces my view of Sinclair Lewis; that America's first winner of the Nobel Prize for literature was at heart a complex and miserable mess of a human being. Far from a great writer, at his peak he was a consummate observer of American society, and perceptive and courageous enough to hold a revealing mirror up to it. His output of the 1920's was nearly unmatched in literary influence, and "Dodsworth" remains one of my favorite novels. But he was a terribly conflicted and insecure man, by turns generous and loyal, and self-obsessed and unpredictably cruel. I have no doubt that I would find him repellent if I knew him, but the man fascinates me, and it was particularly interesting to me to have read this biography shortly after visiting Lewis' hometown of Sauk Centre and touring his home, museum and gravesite.… (mer)
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burnit99 | Sep 22, 2008 |
This is the story of what a country looks and feels like when its people are collectively (in the main) supportive of a war that they view as justified. It stands in stark contradistinction to the misadventures that have taken place over the course of the past 40+ years.
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irsslex | 2 andra recensioner | May 20, 2008 |

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