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James Thomas Flexner - Random harvest

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James Thomas Flexner has been a professional writer for most of his adult life. After several years spent at the City desk at the New York Herald Tribune after graduating from Harvard University, Flexner went on to become one of Americas foremost historians. He has written with great distinction in a unique style accessible to and enjoyed by the scholar and general reader, twenty-six books in the fields of American history and art. Although he is principally known for his kistorical books, notably his four-volume biography of George Washington, Flexner has written in many forms and for many outlets. He has written for print and television; he has been a lecturer, columnist, reviewer, andeven a fiction writer. Collected here are samplings of Flexners literary accomplishments throughout his long career (spanning over 60 years). In Random Harvest you will find pieces that appeared in Esquire Magaine, Time, The New York Times, Travel and Leisure, and even TV Guide. Included is an essay on George Washington and Watergate, on the art of biography, and many more. For the fan of Flexner, American history, and the art of a writer, in Random Harvest there is something to be enjoyed for everyone.

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title:Random Harvest
author:Flexner, James Thomas.
publisher:Fordham University Press
isbn10 | asin:0823217302
print isbn13:9780823217304
ebook isbn13:9780585199146
language:English
subjectUnited States--History, Painting, American--History.
publication date:1998
lcc:E178.6.F652 1998eb
ddc:973
subject:United States--History, Painting, American--History.
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Random Harvest
by
JAMES THOMAS FLEXNER
Random harvest - image 2
Fordham University Press
New York
1998
Page iv
Copyright 1998 by JAMES THOMAS FLEXNER
All rights reserved.
LC 98-10780
ISBN 0-8232-1730-2
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Flexner, James Thomas, 1908
[Selections]
Random harvest/by James Thomas Flexner.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-8232-1730-2
1. United States History. 2. Painting, AmericanHistory. I. Title.
E178.6.F652 1998
973dc21Picture 3Picture 4Picture 5Picture 6Picture 798-10780
Picture 8Picture 9Picture 10Picture 11Picture 12Picture 13CIP
Printed in the United States of America
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CONTENTS
Publisher's Note
ix
Harvard Address
Poetry in a Machine Age
3
New York Herald Tribune
Leopold Auer
9
Broun "Crashes" City Flophouse to Study Jobless
12
Harvard's Muse for Writing
16
Dreiser Brings Pessimism Back From U.S. Tour
24
Last Manhattan Farm Soon Will Give Up Struggle
30
Where Sheep and Cattle Meet
33
Skipper Defies Rescue from Sinking Home
36
Hotel Sleepers Aid Science by Counting Sheep
38
Dean of American Medicine
40
Short Stories
I Felt the Beacons
51
Return
61
American Painting
Directions in the Study of American Painting
71
Spiritual Values Reflected in Early American Art
88
A Speech Given on the Occasion of the Exhibition of Colonial and Federal Portraits at Bowdoin College
102
Introduction to William Dunlap's History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States
109
Painting and Sculpture, 1820-1865
119
The Yankee Inventor Painters
125
Asher B. Durand: An Engraver's and a Farmer's Art
134
Thomas Cole's The Oxbow: The Romance and Harmony of the American Landscape
145
Art in Your Attic
148
Which Comes First: The Head or the Body?
154
Page vi
Inhabited Landscapes
156
John Frederick Kensett
159
Monochromatic Drawing: A Forgotten Branch of American Art
161
The Peaceable Kingdom
167
William Rimmer
171
The Room on the Wall
175
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