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Horgan, Paul was born on August 1, 1903 in Buffalo. Son of Edward Daniel and Rose Marie (Rohr) Horgan.
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This book contains selections from the Writings of Paul Horgan. It was published in celebration of his eightieth birthday and contains a rich selection from among his twoscore books.
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(Lovely set of three Novels from the Great American West i...)
Lovely set of three Novels from the Great American West in illustrated dustjacket of black, white, green and white, stricking design, with edge wear, especially along top. Book Club Edtion.
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(Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History (1954) Winner of...)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History (1954) Winner of the Bancroft Prize in History (1954) Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and Bancroft Prize for History, Great River was hailed as a literary masterpiece and enduring classic when it first appeared in 1954. It is an epic history of four civilizations—Native American, Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo-American—that people the Southwest through ten centuries. With the skill of a novelist, the veracity of a scholar, and the love of a long-time resident, Paul Horgan describes the Rio Grande, its role in human history, and the overlapping cultures that have grown up alongside it or entered into conflict over the land it traverses. Now in its fourth revised edition, Great River remains a monumental part of American historical writing.
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(The fame of Josiah Gregg, a native of Tennessee, rests ch...)
The fame of Josiah Gregg, a native of Tennessee, rests chiefly on his classic account of the Santa Fe Trail, "Commerce of the Prairies" (1844), a ground-breaking work in the historiography of the American West. Six years after its publication, when Gregg had just completed a dangerous and arduous journey to the California coast, he died. Yet little was known of Gregg, the man, until his newly discovered notebooks, diaries, and letters were first published in the 1940s, together with a long biographical essay by Paul Horgan entitled "Josiah Gregg Himself." In the present volume, Mr. Horgan presents a revised version of this biographical portrait, long out of print. He adds to it an interpretation and analysis of "Commerce of the Prairies," appearing here for the first time in book form. The resulting work throws fresh light on this little-known American figure.
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(CITIZEN OF NEW SALEM by Paul Horgan Abraham Lincoln's You...)
CITIZEN OF NEW SALEM by Paul Horgan Abraham Lincoln's Youth in Illinois A Crest Book published by Fawcett Publications, Greenwich, Connecticut (1962) Illustrated by Douglas Gorsline
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MYLAR COVER. STATED FIRST PRINTING. 1977 FSG hardcover, Paul Horgan (Lamy of Santa Fe). This time the period is the early 1920s. Richard leaves college when his father, the Lieutenant Governor, becomes ill with tuberculosis and is sent with his family to Albuquerque.
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(A beautifully written compact social and cultural history...)
A beautifully written compact social and cultural history of the peoples of the Southwest. Abridged from the the Pulitzer Prize-winning Great River.
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New York, NY, Harper and Brothers, 1933. 1st Edition, Later Printing. VG. 349pgs, 2 small (3/8" or so) pieces of paper inside front cover, yellow decorated endpapers, o.w. clean and tight. No ink names,. bookplates, tears, chips, etc. Text fairly bright and in VG+ condition. WE PACK WITH GREAT CARE, 99% OF OUR BOOKS ARE SHIPPED IN CUSTOM BOXES!
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(His eighth novel of a young & heedless materialistic coup...)
His eighth novel of a young & heedless materialistic couple in San Francisco that at the same time is a comment of American society. Dust jacket design by Philip Grushkin.
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("An unpretentious miracle tale will make an apropos Chris...)
"An unpretentious miracle tale will make an apropos Christmas gift for the theme is love and acceptance. Mother Superior Seraphim, along with the other sisters, has never been able to feel warmly toward unattractive and unpleasing little Kathie and her coolness has grown with her suspicions that Kathie may have set the fire that burned Mount St. Catherine's Home for Girls, a fire which caused the death of the Reverend Mother's twin sister, St. Anne. With the tremendous details of Christmas planning and the Bishop's visit, the Reverend Mother asks for a sign -- one red rose -- to release her from her grieving, to prove St. Anne is in eternal happiness. And when it is the deplored Kathie who brings her the token and investigations prove the deed was not of human origin, she gets her answer from the Bishop. ""..it is the instant of love, the small separate act, with which we must begin"" and makes her beginning with Kathie. Gentle, calm, this has a serenity in, and to, its message." -- Kirkus Reviews
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(A moving chronicle, evocative, poetic- covering the forma...)
A moving chronicle, evocative, poetic- covering the formative years of the young Lincoln, from 21 to 28, written in celebration of Lincoln's first inauguration, March 4, 1861. During those years in the frontier settlement of New Salem, Lincoln was often uncertain, at loose ends, jobless, insecure. He had come there as a flatboatman; he stayed on to work in a general store, he was hesitant about mixing with people who seemed socially more experienced and better educated. Mentor Graham agreed to teach him, introduced him to new areas of knowledge, loaned him books-and in the Graham home he experienced some of the amenities of gracious living that opened yet another side of life to him. It was in these years he took his first faltering steps into politics, into the study of law, into the areas of pitting his wits against those more experienced in debate than he. Beautifully done this recreates a segment of the America of those days.
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(Diana Macdonald, daughter of a genteel and wealthy Easter...)
Diana Macdonald, daughter of a genteel and wealthy Eastern professor, is Horgan's crux here, against whom three separate men test their flexibility. Diana marries an epicene but famous and successful playwright named Jack Wentworth; when the US enters the war after Pearl Harbor, he goes down to Washington to work for the State Department. And these Washington wartime milieus highlight much of the book, discreetly acknowledging, among other things, the charged eroticism of the times (uniforms, proximity to death, anonymity) and the way it made many men be larger than themselves. But the novel loses focus as it leaves Washington and moves on rather listlessly. First, bisexual-seeming Jack all but throws Diana into the lap of a vibrant, iconoclastic young painter named Ben Ives. (Perhaps Jack is hoping for a threesome.) Then Ben and Diana run off together to the Texas coast--where the plot thickens into porridge: Ben is falsely accused of a bar murder; he's lost at sea during a storm; and Diana is ultimately rescued by yet one last Washington acquaintance, a young historian named Howard Dobler. Throughout, in fact, the partner-changing plot makes Diana seem a faceless object, tossed from one man to the other. And Horgan's prose is little help, turning from smoothly serviceable to pompous: ""Marjorie sighed. Through her own marriage, she had long learned acceptance as a matter of pride in the visible values of a suitable commitment."" So this is a bland, sometimes even soap-operatic novel; but the evocations of the atmosphere of wartime D.C. are clear and sharp and tangy enough to generate some intermittent energy and interest.
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(Three dominant cultures were projected in turn against th...)
Three dominant cultures were projected in turn against that land (the Rio Grande in North America) - The Indian, The Latin, and the Anglo-American; and their known historical movements would , it seemed to me, be barren of intimate interest if they were merely chronicled. Instead, at significant changes of racial or national dominance they had to be seen through expressions of social backgrounds which gave to the three cultures their violently distinct characters.
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(This book by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner treasures b...)
This book by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner treasures books and those who write them. IT is a work of literature about literature. It is, in a sense, autobiographical because what Paul Horgan says here of other writers is true of himself, “Words on a page… are the central obsession of his life.” A Certain Climate is tripartite and muti-faceted: One, “Toward History,” about the writing of history, the collective human biography; Two, “After-Images,” essays in the biography of diverse individuals from Willa Cather to Rouben Mamoulian to Alice Roosevelt Longworth; and Three, “A Certain Climate,” about the value of books, literature, and writers. Throughout, certain central concerns recur: - The individual vision reaching farther than his art can express”); - The relation of form to substance (“Historical writing that is not literature is subject to oblivion”); - The significance of style (“an indispensable element of all lasting aesthetic achievements”); - The relation of intuition and imagination to fact and demonstrated proof (only “a power of reconstructive imagination” can keep “memory memorable”), and of feeling to art (“I believe that no artist can fulfill his own vision unless he loves the world”); - The capacity of literature to create reality (“an artist’s words once read become part of our own truth and our own qualifying memory”). Paul Horgan’s distastes are a reflection of his tastes. Thus, for example, he eschews pedantry and cant, that is, an exclusiveness “that seems to disdain the general reader”; cynicism as “too cheap a response to the marvels of life to yield an act of art”; and cultural orthodoxies, for “the intellectual slang of a given period, with its reigning critical modishness, is rarely capable of enclosing the aesthetic judgment.” The work of an acute and sophisticated intelligence and a rich and passionate mind, A Certain Climate is civilized company of a high order.
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(SUBJECT: Three novels under one cover of the golden lands...)
SUBJECT: Three novels under one cover of the golden landscape of the American west and southwest. "Main Line West" shows the faithfulness of love and the power of the human spirit, through bitter tragedy upon a woman and child. "Far From Cibole", New Mexico 1933, is a parable of the effect of men and women upon each other in desire, hunger, and sorrow. "The Common Heart" starts in the 1920s in Albuquerque, New Mexico and is four narratives about people of different ages and natures
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(In honor of the centennial of Abraham Lincoln's first ina...)
In honor of the centennial of Abraham Lincoln's first inauguration, the Editors of "The Saturday Evening Post" asked the author to write this essay in biography devoted to Lincoln's formative years as a young citizen of New Salem, Illinois.
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Hard cover with dust jacket. Exploration for children and teens of the formative years of Abraham Lincoln in New Salem, Illinois; black and white illustrations, 89 plus pages.
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(Originally published in 1960 selling half a million copie...)
Originally published in 1960 selling half a million copies at the time and first reissued as a Nonpareil paperback in 1991, this immensely popular work of fiction has attracted, informed, and been embraced by a whole new generation of readers.
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Horgan, Paul was born on August 1, 1903 in Buffalo. Son of Edward Daniel and Rose Marie (Rohr) Horgan.
Student, New Mexico Military Institute, 1923. Doctor of Letters, Wesleyan University, 1956. Doctor of Letters, Southern Methodist University, 1957.
Doctor of Letters, Notre Dame University, 1958. Doctor of Letters, Boston College, 1958. Doctor of Letters, New Mexico State University, 1962.
Doctor of Letters, College Holy Cross, 1963. Doctor of Letters, University New Mexico, 1963. Doctor of Letters, Fairfield University, 1964.
Doctor of Letters, St. Mary's College, 1976. Doctor of Letters, Yale University, 1977. Doctor of Hebrew Literature, Canisius College, 1960.
Doctor of Hebrew Literature, Georgetown University, 1962. Doctor of Letters, D'Youville College, 1965. Doctor of Letters, Pace University, 1968.
Doctor of Letters, Loyola College, Baltimore, 1968. Doctor of Letters, Lincoln College, 1968. Doctor of Letters, St. Bonaventure University, 1970.
Doctor of Letters, Catholic University, 1973. Doctor of Humane Letters, LaSalle College, 1971. Doctor of Humane Letters, University Hartford, 1987.
Production staff, Eastman Theatre, Rochester, New York, 1923-1926;
librarian, New Mexico Military Institute, Roswell, 1926-1942;
assistant to president, New Mexico Military Institute, 1947;
senior fellow, Center Advanced Studies, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1959-1961;
director, Center Advanced Studies, Wesleyan University, 1962-1967;
senior fellow in letters, Center Advanced Studies, Wesleyan University, 1967-1968;
adjunct Professor of English, Center Advanced Studies, Wesleyan University, 1967-1971;
professor emeritus, Center Advanced Studies, Wesleyan University, 1971-1995;
author in residence, Center Advanced Studies, Wesleyan University, 1971-1995. Lecturer Graduate School Letters, U. Iowa, February-June 1946. Lecturer English, Saybrook College, Yale University, 1969.
Honorary trustee Aspen Institute Humanistic Studies, scholar in residence, 1968, 70, 71, 73. Past member National Council Humanities. Member of national advisory board Center for the Book, Library. of Congress, 1978-1995.
Past member of the board of judges Book of Month Club.
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(Originally published in 1960 selling half a million copie...)
(In honor of the centennial of Abraham Lincoln's first ina...)
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Chairman board Santa Fe Opera, 1958-1969, member, 1969-1995. Member of advisory board John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, 1963-1969. President of the board directors Roswell Museum, 1948-1955.
Member board Roswell Public Library, 1958-1962, honorary member, 1962-1995. Honorary life fellow School American Research. Fellow Pierpont Morgan Library, 1974-1995, member of council, 1975-1979, 82-83, life fellow, 1977-1995.
Trustee Associations Yale University Library, 1976-1979. Board directors Witter Bynner Foundation, 1972-1979. Founding trustee Lincoln County (New Mexico) Heritage Trust, 1976-1995.
Served from captain lieutenant colonel Army of the United States, 1942-1946. Recalled temporary active duty general staff Department Army, 1952, Washington. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, Connecticut Academy Arts and Sciences.
Member Am.Cath. History Association (president 1960), Wesleyan Writers Conference (advisory board), American Academy Arts and Letters, Society American Historians, Athenaeum Club (London), Phi Beta Kappa (orator 1973, honorary Alpha of Connecticut chapter).