Word: sheean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last season fashions in autobiography inclined toward the long, earnest, semiphilosophic reminiscence of foreign correspondents, with such works as Vincent Sheean's Personal History, Walter Duranty's I Write as I Please and Negley Farson's The Way of a Transgressor reaching a best-selling popularity. Now the trend seems to be toward candid memoirs by international ladies of fashion who, after long and hectic careers, found much unhappiness with many husbands in many different countries. The first and most scandalous of these books was Elizabeth Drexel Lehr's "King Lehr" and the Gilded Age, followed...
...book publishing season of 1935-36 will probably be long remembered for its flood of able memoirs by U. S. foreign correspondents: The Chicago Tribune's Vincent Sheean and New York Times's Walter Duranty led off respectively with Personal History and I Write as I Please. The Chicago Daily News's John Gunther turned in Inside Europe, and its Negley Farson followed with The Way of a Transgressor. These shrewd, readable traders in world politics considerably disconcerted British newshawks who have for a century considered that the world's greatest news exchange was London. Last...
SANFELICE-Vincent Sheean-Doubleday, Doran...
...Personal History Vincent Sheean wrote the autobiography of a 30-year-old newspaperman who had seen and participated in some of the most momentous events of the post-War period: the pacification of the Riff in Africa, the Chinese Revolution of 1927, the German Inflation, the Allied occupation of the Rhine. The book revealed a sensitive and searching intelligence that honestly faced the dominant political issues before the modern world, contained careful expositions of Communism and Revolution, gave a general impression of intelligent inconclusiveness, of dismay before the towering threats to contemporary society. Last week Vincent Sheean followed his best...
...mechanics and editing aside, the strength and weakness of any newsreel is the man behind the camera. A purely objective view may not be misleading but it often leads nowhere. The widespread popularity of such subjective photography as Walter Duranty's I Write As I Please, Vincent Sheean's Personal History, John Gunther's Inside Europe, Negley Parson's The Way of a Transgressor are strong indications that many an individual still regards the cameraman as more important than the camera. Last week such individuals watched with interest the latest subjective newsreel, Edmund Wilson...