Word: bliven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BATTLE FOR MANHATTAN (128 pp.) -Bruce Bliven Jr.-Holt...
...Bruce Bliven Jr. is a veteran of the Normandy invasion who fell to wondering after his return to Manhattan if it had happened that way at home. He ended up writing the almost-forgotten story of how indeed it had. The two-day "battle for Manhattan" is not the most glorious chapter in U.S. history. But as Author (The Wonderful Writing Machine) Bliven has pieced it together, with the help of period prints and maps showing the fighting in terms of today's streets and landmarks, his compact and lively book may be just the handy companion for cliff...
...disgraceful was the rout that General Howe could easily have pushed west to the Hudson, cut off the half of Washington's forces still posted at the lower end of the island, and, says Bliven, "the chances were that he would have won the war then and there." But pleasure-loving General Howe stopped for "cakes and Madeira" at Mrs. Murray's on Murray Hill. Washington's men got safely away to Harlem Heights with the loss of only about 50 casualties and 300 prisoners, and the next morning fresh Ranger scouts, led by Lieut. Colonel Thomas...
...WONDERFUL WRITING MACHINE (236 pp.)-Bruce Bliven Jr.- Random House...
...copies and their useless proliferation in innumerable filing cabinets, handed writers an alarmingly facile weapon of self-expression. Anybody who wants to know almost anything concerning the typewriter, can find it in Historian Richard N. Current's The Typewriter and the Men Who Made It and Journalist Bruce Bliven Jr.'s The Wonderful Writing Machine. Current's book is a detailed history of the typewriter's origins. Bliven's book is a livelier but less meaty study, bringing the story of the writing machine up to date with the latest electric model...