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04407aam a2200541 i 4500 001 F53E12189F4211EBBB7E29A634ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210417010108 008 200925t20202020ncua b 000 0aeng d 010 $a 2020936795 020 $a 0944318797 020 $a 9780944318799 035 $a (OCoLC)1197804874 040 $a CDX $b eng $e rda $c CDX $d NGU $d OCLCF $d YDX $d STF $d NUI $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a CT275.W3717 $b A3 2020 082 04 $a 818/.5409 $2 23 100 1 $a Weintraub, Stanley, $d 1929-2019, $e author. 245 12 $a A writing life : $b revisiting the past / $c Stanley Weintraub ; David A. Weintraub & Michel W. Pharand, coeditors. 264 1 $a [Greensboro, NC] : $b ELT Press, $c [2020] 300 $a xxx, 374 pages : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a British authors series 1880-1920 ; $v Number thirty-three 520 $a In A Writing Life, Stanley Weintraub applies the biographical skills he perfected over a lifetime of writing to tell his own story. In doing so, he introduces us to a who's who of the twentieth century whom he encountered in his life and in his research, from Eddie Fisher to C. P. Snow, from Leonard Woolf to Pierre Salinger, from Ray Bradbury to Danny Kaye to Isaac Bashevis Singer, and he takes us inside his world of discovery and enables us to feel his passion and experience his relentless intensity for finding the letters, diaries and documents that reveal the important details of history. Weintraub was one of the preeminent biographers, one of the most distinguished military historians, and one of the most important scholars of playwright George Bernard Shaw of the last 60 years. He published biographies of American and English figures of political, cultural and military significance, including Shaw, Lawrence of Arabia, Whistler, Beardsley, Queen Victoria (which reached #1 on The Times of London bestseller list), Prince Albert, King Edward VII, Disraeli, MacArthur, Eisenhower, Marshall and FDR; he wrote histories covering aspects of the American Revolution, the Civil War, World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Korean War, and he wrote a series of books about wartime Christmases, including Washington getting home for Christmas in 1783, Sherman reaching Savannah for Christmas in 1864, the Christmas Truce of 1914, Christmas at the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, and a military escape from Korea at Christmas in 1950. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 504 $a "OED citations by Stanley Weintraub": pages xviii-xxi. 504 $a "Books by Stanley Weintraub": pages xiv-xvii. 505 0 $a Preface I. Making the most of possibilities -- Preface II. Acquiring a name -- Book I. A kid's war I: beginnings, 1929-1941 ; A kid's war II: the real thing, 1941-1945 ; Kid to khaki, 1946-1951 ; Korea, 1951-1953 ; War in the wards, 1952-1953 ; Golden gates, 1953-1956 ; Beginning again, 1956-1965 ; Beardsley and beyond, 1966-1968 ; The Whistler decade, 1969-1977 ; Interlude -- Book II. Victoria and its successors ; Victorian sunset ; Pearl Harbor and after ; Victorian aftermath ; Farewell, Victoria! ; Wartime Christmases ; American wars -- Epilogue -- Afterword. Tributes to Stanley Weintraub by fellow Bernard Shaw scholars. 600 10 $a Weintraub, Stanley, $d 1929-2019. 600 11 $a Shaw, Bernard, $d 1856-1950 $x History. $x History. 600 11 $a Weintraub, Stanley, $d 1929-2019. 600 17 $a Weintraub, Stanley, $d 1929-2019. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00007386 650 0 $a Literary historians $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Military historians $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Historians $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Biographers $z United States $v Biography. 650 7 $a Biographers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00832107 650 7 $a Historians. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00957686 650 7 $a Literary historians. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00999929 650 7 $a Military historians. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01021221 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Biography. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Pharand, Michel W., $e editor. 700 1 $a Weintraub, David, $d 1949- $e editor. 830 0 $a 1880-1920 British authors series ; $v no. 33. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317024716.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F53E12189F4211EBBB7E29A634ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search