Archibald MacLeish: An American Life

by Scott Donaldson

Overview

Archibald MacLeish was the winner of the 1993 Ambassador Book Award for biography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781504030021
Publisher:	Open Road Integrated Media LLC
Publication date:	09/27/2016
Pages:	672
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.48(d)

About the Author

Scott Donaldson is one of the nation’s leading literary biographers. Among his books are Poet in America: Winfield Townley Scott, By Force of Will: The Life and Art of Ernest Hemingway, Fool for Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Cheever: A Biography, and Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald.
 

Table of Contents

	Preface	ix
1	Beginnings	1
2	Growing Up	14
3	Prep School	30
4	Big Man on Campus	51
5	Ada and the Muses	73
6	The Great War	85
7	A. MacLeish, Esquire	100
8	Fever of Greatness	125
9	Shadow of the Night	151
10	New Found Land	180
11	City of Glass	197
12	Public Poet I	220
13	Middle of the Journey	247
14	Public Poet II	262
15	Mr. M. Goes to Washington	290
16	Brush of the Comet	306
17	The Drums of War	329
18	Propagandist for Democracy	348
19	Making the Peace	366
20	A New Life	396
21	The View from Sixty	422
22	Means of Escape	440
23	Poet Laureate	467
24	Quarrels with the World	492
25	Last Lines	512
	Acknowledgments	527
	Notes	532
	Bibliography	593
	Index	601

Editorial Reviews

There’s so much gold about life and letters on nearly every page of Scott Donaldson’s major biography of Archibald MacLeish that the book almost doesn’t need mining for nuggets.” —Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times
 
“MacLeish was in many ways a child of fortune. . . . His luck still holds in having so fine a chronicler of his enchanted voyage.” —The New England Quarterly
 

From the Publisher

There's so much gold about life and letters...that the book almost doesn't need mining for nuggets. —The New York Times

Herbert Mitgang