1st Edition
A Country in the Mind Wallace Stegner, Bernard DeVoto, History, and the American Land
By John L. Thomas
Copyright 2000
208 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this beautifully written account, John Thomas details an intimate portrait of the intellectual friendship between two commanding figures of western letters and the early environmental movement--Wallace Stegner and Bernard DeVoto.. The authors of enormously popular works--Stegner most well known for his novels The Big Rock Candy Mountain and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose and... Read more
I.Prologue II. Legacy III. History IV. Land V. Reprise Notes Sources Index
Biography
John L. Thomas is the George L. Littlefield Professor of American History at Brown University. He is the author of several works, including The Liberator: William Lloyd Garrison. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
"Thomas succeeds in pulling together an impressive array of information as he shifts between the lives of Stegner and DeVoto and their shared interests...[he] offers us the lives of two American writers whose voices deserve to be heard." -- Rocky Mountain News
"Elegant...Thomas has honored both men with an essay that students of the American West won't want to miss." -- Publisher's Weekly
"Thomas sets up shop in DeVoto and Stegner's heads, right where he ought to be for this intellectually spirited biographical essay." -- Kirkus Reviews
