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Croswell Bowen: A Writer’s Life, a Daughter’s Portrait is the life story of a journalist who wrote his way through the major events of the mid-twentieth century. Croswell Bowen: A Writer’s Life, a Daughter’s Portrait is the life story of a journalist who wrote his way through the major events of the mid-twentieth century. A riveting account of the life and times of an American journalist, Connor Bowen’s biography of Bowen is a daughter’s quest to find her father through his work at the intersections of journalism, democracy, and liberalism. Bowen’s life and work were shaped by his conviction that finding the right stories and telling them with the right words could create a better world. He wrote about criminals, poverty, illness, discrimination, and other matters of social injustice. While writing to advance causes he believed in and lending a voice to the less fortunate, he struggled to maintain his marriage and provide for his family. Although he made mistakes in both his professional and personal life, Connor Bowen celebrates his ability, even in failure, to maintain bold moral integrity.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page
  2. pp. i-vi
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. List of Illustrations
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Prologue
  2. pp. xi-xvi
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  1. 1. Skull and Bones, Paris, and the Crash of 1929
  2. pp. 1-18
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  1. 2. Several Reversals of Fortune, All in a Row
  2. pp. 19-39
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  1. 3. Greenwich Village Years
  2. pp. 40-53
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  1. 4. Bowen’s New Deal
  2. pp. 54-74
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  1. 5. Bowen’s Short War
  2. pp. 75-103
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  1. 6. The Long War on the Home Front
  2. pp. 104-168
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  1. 7. Ahab in Seersucker
  2. pp. 169-206
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  1. 8. The Fifties and Its Discontents
  2. pp. 207-225
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  1. 9. A Darkness That Would Not Lift
  2. pp. 226-241
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  1. 10. A Writer Attends to His Soul
  2. pp. 242-264
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. 265-266
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  1. A Note on Sources
  2. pp. 267-272
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