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- Croswell Bowen: A Writer's Life, a Daughter's Portrait
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: University of Nebraska Press
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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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-vi
- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- 3. Greenwich Village Years
- pp. 40-53
- 4. Bowen’s New Deal
- pp. 54-74
- 5. Bowen’s Short War
- pp. 75-103
- 6. The Long War on the Home Front
- pp. 104-168
- 7. Ahab in Seersucker
- pp. 169-206
- 8. The Fifties and Its Discontents
- pp. 207-225
- 9. A Darkness That Would Not Lift
- pp. 226-241
- 10. A Writer Attends to His Soul
- pp. 242-264
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 265-266
- A Note on Sources
- pp. 267-272
Additional Information
ISBN
9781612345598
Related ISBN(s)
9781612345581
MARC Record
OCLC
886540258
Pages
288
Launched on MUSE
2014-12-10
Language
English
Open Access
No