Daniel Aaron (1) (1912–2016)

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Daniel Baruch Aaron was born in Chicago, Illinois on August 4, 1912. He received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Michigan in 1933 and the first doctoral degree in American civilization from Harvard University. He taught English at Smith College for 30 years. During wartime mehr anzeigen shortages of manpower, he worked on a farm and as a volunteer police officer. In 1979, he co-founded the nonprofit Library of America. The company has published millions of copies of over 250 moderately priced novels, memoirs, narrative histories, forgotten masterpieces, and other classics. He wrote several books during his lifetime including Men of Good Hope: A Story of American Progressives, Writers on the Left: Episodes in American Literary Communism, and The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War. His memoirs include The Americanist and Commonplace Book, 1934-2012. He condensed the 155 volume journal of failed poet and scion of Southern wealth Arthur Crew Inman into The Inman Diary: A Public and Private Confession. In 2010, he was awarded a National Humanities Medal as a scholar and as the founding president of the Library of America. He died from complications of pneumonia on April 30, 2016 at the age of 103. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen

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Werke von Daniel Aaron

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Writers on the Left (1961) 72 Exemplare

The United States: The History of a Republic (1957) — Joint Author. — 55 Exemplare

The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War (1973) 44 Exemplare

Emerson: A Modern Anthology (1958) — Herausgeber — 38 Exemplare

Men of good hope; a story of American progressives (1951) 33 Exemplare

The structure of American history (1964) 25 Exemplare

The Strenuous Decade: A Social and Intellectual Record of the 1930'S, (1970) 20 Exemplare

Cincinnati, Queen City of the West, 1819-1838 (1992) 13 Exemplare

From a Darkened Room: The Inman Diary (Inman Fund) (1996) — Herausgeber — 13 Exemplare

The Americanist (2007) 12 Exemplare

America in crisis; fourteen crucial episodes in American history (1971) 8 Exemplare

Studies in Biography (1978) 8 Exemplare

Paul Elmer More's Shelburne Essays on American Literature (1963) — Herausgeber — 6 Exemplare

American Notes: Selected Essays (1994) 5 Exemplare

The American Republic (Volume 2, Since 1865) (1959) 5 Exemplare

The American Republic (v. 1) (1959) 4 Exemplare

Commonplace Book, 1934-2012 (2015) 2 Exemplare

AMERICAN ISSUES FORUM AMERICAN SOCIETY IN THE MAKING VOLUME ONE 1 Exemplar

American issues forum 1 Exemplar

Scrap Book (2014) 1 Exemplar

AMERICAN ISSUES FORUM THE MOLDING AMERICAN VALUES VOLUME TWO 1 Exemplar

The Inman Diary A Public and Private Confession **2 VOLUMES** 1 Exemplar

The United States: A world power (1976) 1 Exemplar

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Der 42. Breitengrad. 1. Auflage. (1930) — Herausgeber, einige Ausgaben — 1,639 Exemplare

Der Sang von Hiawatha (1855) — Herausgeber, einige Ausgaben — 1,236 Exemplare

Die Aspern-Schriften: Roman (1888) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben — 882 Exemplare

Letters on literature and politics, 1912-1972 (1977) — Einführung — 125 Exemplare

Introducing Don DeLillo (1991) — Mitwirkender — 40 Exemplare

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Rechtmäßiger Name: Aaron, Daniel Baruch
Geburtstag: 1912-08-04
Todestag: 2016-04-30
Geschlecht: male
Nationalität: USA
Geburtsort: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Sterbeort: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Todesursache: pneumonia (complications)
Wohnorte: Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
Ausbildung: University of Michigan (AB)
Harvard University (PhD)
Berufe: literary historian
professor emeritus
literary critic
Organisationen: Harvard University
Smith College
Library of America (cofounder)
Preise und Auszeichnungen: National Humanities Medal (2010)

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The Americanist von Daniel Aaron

I was disappointed in this book; I'd seen a good review somewhere. The author is a professor of American Studies. The book is a short memoir of his life as a professor and his travels around the world talking about American culture. He traveled a lot for the USIA. He claims he always told the truth & aired his criticisms of the US, but he is both defensive & defending of his activities in support of the US. I don't think he had anything interesting to say about politics, and the reminiscences didn't have much content.… (mehr)

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