Reminiscences of Allan Nevins,
Illinois farm life in the 1890s; family and neighbors; education, formal and informal; reading, the University of Illinois; Stuart Pratt Sherman, New York, N.Y. and editorial work for the NATION and EVENING POST, 1913-1918: editorial conferences, Oswald Garrison Villard, Rollo Ogden, Simeon Strunsky...
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Format: | Kit |
Language: | English |
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Summary: | Illinois farm life in the 1890s; family and neighbors; education, formal and informal; reading, the University of Illinois; Stuart Pratt Sherman, New York, N.Y. and editorial work for the NATION and EVENING POST, 1913-1918: editorial conferences, Oswald Garrison Villard, Rollo Ogden, Simeon Strunsky; social and intellectual activities: the Strunsky circle; the LITERARY REVIEW, book reviewing, Christopher Morley; sale of the POST, 1923; NEW YORK HERALD and NEW YORK SUN: Frank Munsey; NEW YORK WORLD, 1923-31: Walter Lippmann, Claude Bowers, Herbert B. Swope; Cornell, 1927: Carl Becker; early books and the legacy of journalism experience; Columbia, 1928-58: teaching; biographies of Cleveland and Fish; Oxford, 1940-1941; for Office of War Information to Australia and New Zealand, 1942; chief public affairs officer, London, for Department of State, 1946-47; founding of Oral History Research Office, 1948-49; AMERICAN HERITAGE, 1950; business history: Hewitt, Rockefeller, Ford, and Weyerhaeuser studies; ORDEAL OF THE UNION; to California, 1958 |
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Item Description: | Interviewed by Frank Ernest Hill |
Physical Description: | 6 reels 290 pages Microfiche copy available (Columbia University oral history collection, part III, published by Meckler Publishing, Westport, CT) |
Related Items: | Forms part of: Individual interviews oral history collection |
Access: | Access: Open |
Finding Aid: | Name index available |