CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD (1852-1944) led an exuberant life that
seemed to embrace the entire nation and its times. Wood remembered
seeing Abraham Lincoln, he knew Chief Joseph, Clarence Darrow, and
Lincoln Steffens, and he survived to the dawn of the atomic era.
Among his acquaintances he counted Mark Twain, Emma Goldman,
Margaret Sanger, Woodrow Wilson, Langston Hughes, Ezra Pound, and
Ansel Adams. He fought in the Indian campaigns of the post-Civil
War era, he represented wealthy businessmen as an attorney in
Portland, Oregon, during the Gilded Age, he befriended the
political and cultural radicals of New York in the early twentieth
century, and he became a central figure among the West Coast
artists of the 1930s. He was, in short, a man of extraordinarily
wide -- and often conflicting -- impulses and talents.
In this captivating, highly readable biography of Wood, Robert
Hamburger presents both the life and the times, Wood's work and the
intellectual, political, and cultural crosscurrents of his era.
Hamburger ably captures Wood's many contradictions yet unearths the
enduring essence of the man: his rebelliousness, his hatred of
social and economic inequalities, his unbounded appetite for life,
beauty, and pleasure.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
