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"Nelson Blake, professor of history, Syracuse University, seeks to illustrate that the historian and the novelist have more in common than is usually supposed. He examines certain books by Sinclair Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, John Steinbeck, John Dos Passos, James T. Farrell, and Richard Wright.
" 'Good novelists,' he feels, 'capture the quality of events'; and to the student of history, 'the novelist is a witness testifying about the past.'
"In Richard Wright's life and writings, for example, are to be found a capsulization of the American Negro experience in the period considered.
"This book will be valuable to both historians and literary critics."—Library Journal
"A comfortable book for those who have gone the route of the years covered and an informative book for the young. It really was like this and you are closer to them than you think."—AB Bookman's Weekly
Cloth, $6.95 Paper, $2.95
Nelson Manfred Blake is the author of...
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"Nelson Blake, professor of history, Syracuse University, seeks to illustrate that the historian and the novelist have more in common than is usually supposed. He examines certain books by Sinclair Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, John Steinbeck, John Dos Passos, James T. Farrell, and Richard Wright.
" 'Good novelists,' he feels, 'capture the quality of events'; and to the student of history, 'the novelist is a witness testifying about the past.'
"In Richard Wright's life and writings, for example, are to be found a capsulization of the American Negro experience in the period considered.
"This book will be valuable to both historians and literary critics."—Library Journal
"A comfortable book for those who have gone the route of the years covered and an informative book for the young. It really was like this and you are closer to them than you think."—AB Bookman's Weekly
Cloth, $6.95 Paper, $2.95
Nelson Manfred Blake is the author of a number of books on American social and cultural history, including Water for the Cities: A History of the Urban Water Supply Problem in the United States; A History of American Life and Thought; and The Road to Reno: A History of Divorce in the United States.
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