Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BATTLE FOR NORTH AMERICA (746 pp) - Francis Parkman - Edited and Abridged by John Tebbel-Double...
...said of any author that his early life was a preparation for writing, it can be said of Francis Parkman. The 13 volumes of his masterwork, France and England in North America (now skillfully reduced to one compact volume), appeared over a period of 27 years, beginning in 1865. But they had been forming in his notebooks, for 24 years before that...
...continued to write. His wife and son died. He envied his fellow historian, William Prescott (also half blind), because Prescott, "confound him," could read his proofs, "but I am no better off than an owl in the twilight." At 42, Parkman began writing France and England in North America...
...first time): Joe Jacobs' "We wuz robbed" and "I should of stood in bed"; Mae West's "Come up and see me some time"; Noel Coward's "Mad dogs and Englishmen"; Henry Wallace's "Century of the common man"; Archibald MacLeish's "America is promises...
...America's college women have never said that the Harvard man is the perfect male but recently they labelled him the best dressed in the country's colleges...