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...leading U.S. dailies, his championing of the underdog, his epic battles with William Randolph Hearst, his efforts to upgrade journalism by establishing the Pulitzer prizes. Now, for the first time, a biographer has filled in the gaps between the accomplishments in vast detail. The evidence mounts up in William Swanberg's Piditzer* that the famed publisher was a far more erratic and self-tortured personality than is generally realized...
...always played as doubles, is that it is easy to learn. The difference in hitting power between men and women, which so often ruins a mixed-doubles match in tennis, counts for less because the ball can still be played off the wire walls. Says A.P.T.A. Secretary-Treasurer Edmund Swanberg: "It's a great equalizer...
DREISER, by W. A. Swanberg. A crude, naive natural writer, Dreiser was the founder and embodiment of the realistic school of writing that shocked the country in the first decades of this century. His life, like his work, was stubborn, untidy and wayward. Biographer Swanberg (Citizen Hearst) has made the most...
DREISER, by W. A. Swanberg. A crude, naive natural writer. Dreiser was the founder and embodiment of the realistic school of writing that shocked the country in the first decades of this century. His life, like his work, was stubborn, untidy and wayward. Biographer Swanberg (Citizen Hearst) has made the most...
...this revealing readable book, the most densely detailed study of Dreiser yet to be published, Biographer W. A. Swanberg (Citizen Hearst) establishes beyond dispute that Dreiser's life was as grand and sorrowful an epic as anything he ever wrote...