Word: kantor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scientists, educators (including six Nobel Prizewinners, eleven Pulitzer Prizewinners, 90 members of the National Academy of Sciences) called for Eisenhower's re-election in full-page ads in the New York Times and Herald Tribune. Prominent "Eggheads" for Ike: Poets Marianne Moore, Robert Hillyer; Novelists John Marquand, MacKinlay Kantor; Musicians Irving Berlin, Lily Pons; Nuclear Scientists Willard F. Libby, Isidor I. Rabi...
...from habit, there was little to be heard but complacency. For once, some of the gravy was trickling down to the bookstores. The book clubs were booming, Hollywood was paying fancy prices for books again ($300,000 for Robert Ruark's Something of Value, $250,000 for MacKinlay Kantor's Andersonville, a $1,000,000 deal for Herman Wouk's Marjorie Morningstar). High-priced, quality paperbacks were having the year of their lives...
ANDERSONVILLE (767 pp.)-MacKinlay Kantor-World...
Author MacKinlay Kantor, who has converted the Civil War into a living as well as a passion (Long Remember, Arouse and Beware), has turned the grisly fact of Andersonville into a huge, massively researched novel (Book-of-the-Month Club choice for November) which will give Civil War fiction buffs their greatest hour since Gone With the Wind...
Around the horror of Andersonville, Author Kantor has fashioned scenes of plantation life, a commonplace romance, and compassionate confrontations in which the common decency of ordinary men in blue or grey is reaffirmed. He has also made much of the wartime trade enjoyed by the local prostitute. But his real hero is a man of good will who has lost three sons in the war, seen his wife go insane as a result-and can still be shocked by the cruelties piled on the enemy...