| Ernie's America - The Best of Ernie Pyle's 1930's Travel Dispatches
(1989)
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| Front Cover |
Book Details |
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| Genre |
Non-Fiction |
| Subject |
Pyle, Ernie, 1900-1945 - Travel - United States; United States - Description and travel; United States - Social conditions - 1933-1945 |
| Publication Date |
8/12/1989 |
| Format |
Hardcover (9.8
x
6.3
mm)
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| Publisher |
Random House |
| Language |
English |
| Extras |
Dust Jacket; Dust Jacket Cover |
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| Description |
| During his travels throughout America, Pyle wrote thousands of columns. Here, Nichols has culled the best of what he wrote and organized it by sections of the country. |
| Personal Details |
| Acquire Date |
6/10/2010 |
| Condition |
Very Good/Very Good |
| Rating |
0 |
| Links |
Library of Congress
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| Product Details |
| LoC Classification |
E169 .P927 1989 |
| Dewey |
917.304/916 |
| ISBN |
9780394575728 |
| Edition |
[1st ed.] |
| Cover Price |
$21.95 |
| No. of Pages |
423 |
| First Edition |
Yes |
| Rare |
No |
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| Notes/Review |
1930's America, a thousand words at a time.
Pyle no longer wanted to be the managing editor of the Washington Daily News so he convinced his bosses to let him travel the nation and write a column, 1,000 words a day. This volume is a sampling of these columns. They're arranged more or less by geography and because Pyle made multiple trips across/around/through the country they're not in chronological order. Topics vary widely, mostly about the characters he met in the world but sometimes about events forty or fifty years before his time. He for the most part avoided writing about "news" but some of that worked its way in regardless.
The language is jarring at times, but that's a reflection more of the era than of the man. |
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