The Twilight of Self Reliance: Frontier Values and Contemporary America: Wallace Stegner Lecture
Autor Wallace Stegneren Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 oct 2008 – vârsta ani
We can refresh ourselves with our own best image, and renew our image of America: not as Perfection, not as Heaven on Earth, not as New Jerusalem, but as flawed glory and exhilarating task.' –-from The Twilight of Self-Reliance: Frontier Values and Contemporary America
The occasions of the centennial of Wallace Stegner’s birth on February 18, 1909, and the University of Utah Press’s announcement of the Wallace Stegner Publication Prize in Environmental and American Western History have provided the impetus for the re-publication of 'The Twilight of Self-Reliance: Frontier Values and Contemporary America,' which was originally delivered as a Tanner Lecture at the University of Utah on February 25, 1980.
The occasions of the centennial of Wallace Stegner’s birth on February 18, 1909, and the University of Utah Press’s announcement of the Wallace Stegner Publication Prize in Environmental and American Western History have provided the impetus for the re-publication of 'The Twilight of Self-Reliance: Frontier Values and Contemporary America,' which was originally delivered as a Tanner Lecture at the University of Utah on February 25, 1980.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780874809527
ISBN-10: 0874809525
Pagini: 32
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 5 mm
Greutate: 0.07 kg
Ediția:1st Edition
Editura: University of Utah Press
Colecția University of Utah Press
Seria Wallace Stegner Lecture
ISBN-10: 0874809525
Pagini: 32
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 5 mm
Greutate: 0.07 kg
Ediția:1st Edition
Editura: University of Utah Press
Colecția University of Utah Press
Seria Wallace Stegner Lecture
Notă biografică
Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) was born near Lake Mills, Iowa, but eventually made his home in Salt Lake City, where he has been embraced as a native son. He is the author of more than 30 books, including Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West (1954), the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Angle of Repose (1971), and Clarence Edward Dutton: An Appraisal (University of Utah Press, 2006).
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A re-publication of a lecture originally delivered by Wallace Stegner as a Tanner Lecture at the University of Utah on February 25, 1980.