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Van Loon [[electronic resource] ] : popular historian, journalist, and FDR confidant / / Cornelis A. van Minnen



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Autore: Minnen Cornelis A. van Visualizza persona
Titolo: Van Loon [[electronic resource] ] : popular historian, journalist, and FDR confidant / / Cornelis A. van Minnen Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XVI, 353 p.)
Disciplina: 973.917/092
Soggetto topico: Journalists - United States
Historians - United States
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-343) and index.
Sommario/riassunto: Upon his death, Hendrik van Loon was described in The Times obituary as 'one of the most engaging products of the marriage between Holland and the United States'. One of FDR's true and closest friends, van Loon emigrated from the Netherlands to the United States at age 20, in 1902. Working as a historian, journalist, illustrator, and radio commentator, van Loon immersed himself in American cultural life from the 1920's through the '40s, until his death three months before D-Day. Van Loon's professional relationships and friendships with such distinguished persons as Sinclair Lewis, Van Wyck Brooks, H. L. Mencken, Albert Einstein, Herbert Hoover, and Fiorello La Guardia bolster his place as a celebrity of his times. This biography is an exciting and nuanced portrait of a man deeply involved in American cultural life in the first half of the twentieth century.
Titolo autorizzato: Van Loon  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-281-36792-3
9786611367923
1-4039-7714-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910450577403321
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Serie: World of the Roosevelts.