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Pulitzer: A Life
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Pulitzer: A Life Cloth - 2001

by Brian, Denis

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  • Hardcover
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USA: Jossey Bass, 2001. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book N.B. Top right corner of front D/J a little rubbd with very small amount of loss. 438pp.
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  • Title Pulitzer: A Life
  • Author Brian, Denis
  • Binding Cloth
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Jossey Bass, USA
  • Date 2001
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 035324
  • ISBN 9780471332008 / 0471332003
  • Weight 1.8 lbs (0.82 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.72 x 6.56 x 1.4 in (24.69 x 16.66 x 3.56 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Journalists - United States, Pulitzer, Joseph
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001026916
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Summary

Acclaim for Denis Brian's Einstein: A Life "The best account.... Superb insight." --The Times (London) "Denis Brian's convincing picture...only makes our wonder grow at Einstein's sublime achievements." --The Washington Post "Does much to reveal the man behind the image.... Brian's intimate work proves that in literature, as in science, taking a careful look can be a rewarding endeavor." --Detroit Free Press "A fascinating, vastly enjoyable, deeply researched and fair account of Einstein the man." --Physics World "Exhaustively researched, almost obsessively detailed, written with unobtrusive informality, the book is exemplary as a record of Einstein's personal and professional life." --The Spectator (u.k.) "An utterly fascinating life of a great scientist, full of new insights and very readable." --Ashley Montagu "A fasci...

First line

At eighteen, Joseph Pulitzer, a penniless, gangling Hungarian emigrant recruited in Europe to fight in the Civil War, threw himself from the ship bringing him to the United States and swam ashore to collect the bounty he thought should come to him and not to his recruiter.

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About the author

DENIS BRIAN is the author of Einstein: A Life (Wiley), The True Gen: An Intimate Portrait of Ernest Hemingway by Those Who Knew Him, and Genius Talk: Conversations with Nobel Scientists and Other Luminaries. He lives in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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