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1. Contemporary Authors: Biography - Baker, Ray Stannard (1870-1946) | |
Digital: 4
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list price: US$3.10 -- used & new: US$3.10 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: B0007S9ZBA Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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2. The President and His Biographer: Woodrow Wilson and Ray Stannard Baker by Merrill D. Peterson | |
Hardcover: 248
Pages
(2007-08-21)
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Editorial Review Book Description Making the reader constantly aware of the powerful filters through which we perceive historical figures, Peterson's vivid and detailed narrative of encounters between the idealistic Wilson and his even more idealistic biographer makes for absorbing reading. A sympathetic account of a controversial figure in American history, The President and His Biographer will appeal to anyone interested in Wilson and his time. |
3. Adventures in Contentment by Ray Stannard Baker | |
Paperback: 249
Pages
(1987-10)
list price: US$14.95 -- used & new: US$11.66 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0939650185 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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A MUCH OVERLOOKED GEM HERE
Wonderful, insightful, optimistic...
Simply the greatest . . . 7 years later, I cameacross a 90 year old copy of Adventures in Contentment, and found that itstruck me as even more profound, having tasted a little of the cynicalworld that drove the main character from the city to the farm. This is theonly book I have ever read that made me cry tears of human experience --and then the very next chapter had me laughing out loud.(I was sitting ata coffee house with my friends when this happened, after which they wantedto borrow the book.) If you are a person of thought, this book will moveyou.Grayson will take you on a tour of his farm and his mind.You willgive him a voice, and you will hear that voice speak the words as you read. You will quote this book, you will reread this book, you will think ofthis book with the fondness of a close friend. The simplicity of theessays will charm you, his masterful vocabulary will force you to grab yourdictionary, and his expressive literary patterns will strike you as beingas close to poetry as prose could possible come. A picture may say 1000words, but David Grayson's simple essays about small town life in the early1900's will paint more vivid images in your mind than 1,000,000Michaelangelos ever could. Simply stated, this is the greatest literarywork ever written.Unfortunately, modern literary critics refer to thistype of work as unimportant, sentimental and preachy. So this book willprobably never be placed in its rightful spot in the literarycanon. Still, don't think the author died in obscurity without his talentbeing discovered.He was a lifelong friend of Woodrow Wilson, and in hisold age, Ray Stannard Baker won the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of hisfamous friend.
Most delightful book I have ever read. |
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