Controversy and other essays in journalism, 1950-1975 / William Manchester. --

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Manchester, William, 1922-2004
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Little, Brown, c1976.
Edition:Book club ed. --
Table of Contents:
  • Controversy
  • Mid campfires gleaming: The Spanish American War. The Great War. The island war. Corps d'elite. The man who couldn't speak Japanese
  • Ways and means: The Treasury Department. The great bank holiday. Slum lord. The founding grandfather
  • Americana: The tribal American. The New York Times. A slight case of McCarthyism. In defense of snobs
  • Public men: Adlai in defeat. Walter Reuther. Cairo after Farouk
  • Envoi: My old man, the last years of H. L. Mencken.