Michael Lesy
Autor von Wisconsin Death Trip
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Michael Lesy is a professor of literary journalism at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts
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- 1945
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- Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA
Amherst, Massachusetts, USA - Ausbildung
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (MA)
Columbia University (BA)
Rutgers University (PhD) - Berufe
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- Simon Fellow, United States Artists Foundation, 2007
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Then, embedded in a chapter dealing with how dining out became an adventure for Americans, there is an account of Teddy Roosevelt publicly celebrating the American ideal in the company of a group of Hungarian Jews on February 14, 1905. The event itself was rather poignant, but at this point Lesy & Stoffer's real concern snaps into focus, as they are covering the beginning of an epoch of American eating that we are still in the throes of, and I finally found myself impressed.
That said, I'm still happy that I read "Three Squares" by Abigail Carroll and "Ten Restaurants that Changed America" by Paul Freedman before I got to this book.… (mehr)