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Taking Part : A Twentieth-century Life Singular Lives
author
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Josephy, Robert.
publisher
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University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin
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0877454124
print isbn13
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9780877454120
ebook isbn13
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9781587291203
language
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English
subject
Josephy, Robert,--1903- , Book designers--United States--Biography, Book design--United States--History--20th century, Horticulturists--Connecticut--Bethel (Town)--Biography, Political activists--United States--Biography.
publication date
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1993
lcc
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Z116.A3J69 1993eb
ddc
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741.6/4/092
subject
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Josephy, Robert,--1903- , Book designers--United States--Biography, Book design--United States--History--20th century, Horticulturists--Connecticut--Bethel (Town)--Biography, Political activists--United States--Biography.
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Taking Part
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SINGULAR LIVES The Iowa Series in North American Autobiography Albert E. Stone, Series Editor
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Taking Part
A Twentieth-Century Life
Robert Josephy
Foreword by Albert E. Stone
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS IOWA CITY
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University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242
Copyright (c) 1993 by the University of Iowa Press All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Design by Richard Hendel
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Printed on acid-free paper
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Josephy, Robert, 1903 Taking part: a twentieth-century life / by Robert Josephy; foreword by Albert E. Stone. p. cm.(Singular lives) ISBN 0-87745-412-4 (cloth) 1. Josephy, Robert, 1903- . 2. Book designersUnited States Biography. 3. Book designUnited StatesHistory 20th century. 4. Horticulturists ConnecticutBethel (Town)Biography. 5. Political activistsUnited States Biography. I. Title. II. Series. Z116.A3J69 1993 7411.6'4'092-dc20 [B] 92-44857 CIP
97 96 95 94 93 C 5 4 3 2 1
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Contents
Foreword
by Albert E. Stone
vii
1 A Sheltered Childhood
1
2 An Education of Sorts
17
3 Five Years with Knopf
32
4 Free-Lance Designer
42
5 Harcourt to Stieglitz
64
6 New Scenes, New Faces
85
7 A Marriage and a Farm
96
8 In the Class Struggle
110
9 A Time of Transition
126
10 A Long Marriage
136
11 People and Politics
149
12 No Gentleman Farmer
165
13 Trees, Crops, and Customers
179
14 Protecting Land and People
195
15 A Century of Change
210
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Foreword
by Albert E. Stone
Although the author of Taking Part: A Twentieth-Century Life would never claim in advance a distinguished place in the annals of American autobiography, Robert Josephy has, in fact, created a significant example of an unusual kind of autobiographya nonagenarian's narrative. True, he was only eighty-nine when this manuscript was turned in to the University of Iowa Press to become volume 7 in the Singular Lives series. Thus his book doesn't quite match the long view backward achieved by our culture's most famous very old man's memoir: The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century. Nor would Josephy anticipate anything like the fame or influence of America's greatest black intellectual. Yet his life-story displays, on a narrower stage of history, some of the same advantages of writing the self out of many decades' experience, as well as some perhaps inevitable blinders on the aged autobiographer's eyes.
The notable advantages of a lengthy historical perspective are readily seen in Taking Part. Nonetheless, the reader must wait until the final chapters to realize fully what Josephy believes these lasting benefits to be. His is a twentieth-century life-story as the successful search for roots. Not easily achieved by older Americans in this century of bewildering changes, this goal is in large part realized because Josephy follows a simple, timeless definition of "success"
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and "roots": "I wanted, as does everyone, to be comfortable in my environment, to find satisfaction in my work, to enjoy and respect my neighbors." The paradox in achieving this basic formula is that the rural apple-grower and citizen of Bethel, Connecticut, who proclaims interdependence as the final key to a meaningful life, is the same self who earlierand repeatedlydeclared independence from many of the social institutions commonly rooting one in white American society. A family background of privilege, the ancient verities of traditional Judaism, a college education, allegiance to mainstream political parties, occupational security as typographer in a major Madison Avenue publishing house, fidelity within a monogamous marriageeach of these props of a successful upper middle-class identity is rejected in favor of a personal freedom sometimes carried to radical lengths.
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