Personal history / Vincent Sheean.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., c1934, 1935.Description: 403 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN 4874 .S46 A3 1935
Online resources:
Contents:
I. The modern gothic -- II. Journalism -- III. The rif -- IV. The rif again -- V. Desert gardens -- VI. Revolution -- VII. The western cities -- VIII. Holy land.
Summary: "Personal History is a memoir of Sheean, an American journalist. In October 1922, Sheean, then a young man from Pana, a small town in southern Illinois, applied for a job in the Paris office of the Chicago Tribune. The Tribune hired him as a utility man for its Paris newspaper and for the Paris bureau of its foreign service. “In a click of time, I became what was called a foreign correspondent,” Sheean later wrote in Personal History. Sheean's first decade or so of foreign correspondence, the framework of Personal History, was a tutorial in world news. What elevated Sheean even among luminaries in journalism was the literary quality of his reporting, his uncanny ability to situate himself in the slipstream of monumental news, and the intensity of feeling with which he viewed those events. All of that is on display in Personal History, published thirteen years after he found his job at the Tribune." - University Press Scholarship Online.
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BOOKS BOOKS Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks PN 4874 .S46 A3 1935 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan Damaged Dust stain on bottom right side of text block, and binding of the first few pages is coming undone. NPML21030010

Includes an Index of Personal Names.

I. The modern gothic -- II. Journalism -- III. The rif -- IV. The rif again -- V. Desert gardens -- VI. Revolution -- VII. The western cities -- VIII. Holy land.

"Personal History is a memoir of Sheean, an American journalist. In October 1922, Sheean, then a young man from Pana, a small town in southern Illinois, applied for a job in the Paris office of the Chicago Tribune. The Tribune hired him as a utility man for its Paris newspaper and for the Paris bureau of its foreign service. “In a click of time, I became what was called a foreign correspondent,” Sheean later wrote in Personal History. Sheean's first decade or so of foreign correspondence, the framework of Personal History, was a tutorial in world news. What elevated Sheean even among luminaries in journalism was the literary quality of his reporting, his uncanny ability to situate himself in the slipstream of monumental news, and the intensity of feeling with which he viewed those events. All of that is on display in Personal History, published thirteen years after he found his job at the Tribune." - University Press Scholarship Online.

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