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58-- Ernie's America The Best of Ernie Pyle's 1930s Travel Dispatches, Edited by David Nichols (read 23 Mar 2023) has a lot of Ernie Pyle's writings from 1935 to 1941. I read it because I well remembered Pyle's writing about the Albert McGinn'family during that time. But the book does not include that writing. But I found I enjoyed some of what Pyke wrote, though I thought that he often was loose about facts
Interesting human interest war stories, mostly in Europe. Sad about his death no Okinawa. He had the human touch for sure.
If you want to understand World War II from the perspective of the average soldier, you read Ernie Pyle's dispatches from the war, collected in "Ernie's War". If you want a perspective on America during the Depression that you may have missed in the history books, this is as good as it gets. From 1935 to 1942 Ernie traveled throughout America, reporting in his column on the people and places he met. People made reading his column a daily habit, fascinated with where he had been and whom he had met. This was in the days before interstate highways made cross-country travel a commonality.
Pyle was a master at unearthing the fascinating behind every person or place he met, but he also ran across well-known people or those who had crossed their lives, including Judge Roy Bean, Billy the Kid, Dr. George W. Carver, Sam Houston, Jesse James, Casey Jones, Huey Long, Will Rogers and Mark Twain. And there is a fascinating little story from my home town, Westerville, Ohio, featuring Pyle's meeting with Howard Russell, the lawyer-turned-evangelistic prohibitionist who founded the Anti-Saloon League and was the driving and guiding force behind the Eighteenth Amendment, that gave America fourteen years of prohibition.… (mehr)
Pyle was a master at unearthing the fascinating behind every person or place he met, but he also ran across well-known people or those who had crossed their lives, including Judge Roy Bean, Billy the Kid, Dr. George W. Carver, Sam Houston, Jesse James, Casey Jones, Huey Long, Will Rogers and Mark Twain. And there is a fascinating little story from my home town, Westerville, Ohio, featuring Pyle's meeting with Howard Russell, the lawyer-turned-evangelistic prohibitionist who founded the Anti-Saloon League and was the driving and guiding force behind the Eighteenth Amendment, that gave America fourteen years of prohibition.… (mehr)
Well-edited compilation of Ernie Pyle's columns from his many trips across the US between 1935 and early 1942. You get a real good idea of how all sorts of people lived and felt during those turbulent times.
Like the title suggests, this is only a subset of his articles during this time period. In addition, many of the articles are edited for space reasons... which can be annoying at times. However, I can understand their logic in order to include as many columns as possible.
Like the title suggests, this is only a subset of his articles during this time period. In addition, many of the articles are edited for space reasons... which can be annoying at times. However, I can understand their logic in order to include as many columns as possible.
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