James L. Haley
Autor/a de Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii
Sobre l'autor
James L. Haley is the author of two dozen books, including the biography Sam Houston (University of Oklahoma Press, 2002) and The Texas Supreme Court: A Narrative History 1836-1986 (University of Texas Press, 2013). He also writes historical fiction, most recently the Bliven Putnam Naval Adventures mostra'n més for G. P. Putnam's Sons (2016-3021). A fellow of the Texas State Historical Association and a Life Member of the Institute of Texas Letters, he has won the WWA Spur Award twice, the THC Fehrenbach Book Award twice, and numerous others. mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Author James L. Haley at the 2019 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas, United States. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=84156991
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Obres de James L. Haley
The Shores of Tripoli: Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary Pirates Bliven Putnam Book 1 (2016) 100 exemplars
TEXAS: From Spindletop Through World War II ~ A Sequel Volume to TEXAS: From the Frontier to Spindletop (1993) 13 exemplars
Stephen F. Austin and the Founding of Texas (The Library of American Lives and Times) (2003) 12 exemplars
Obres associades
The Border and the Buffalo: An Untold Story of Southwest Plains : A Story of Mountain and Plain (1907) — Pròleg, algunes edicions — 45 exemplars
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- Nom normalitzat
- Haley, James L.
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Llocs de residència
- Austin, Texas, USA
- Educació
- University of Texas at Arlington
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Wolf: The Lives of Jack London de James L. Haley
Good, detailed biography, but I heard there is a better one, so I'm going to read that one too. He was a very fascinating character. Quite masculine, but very sensitive too.
A slow start but a fine finish to this latest Captain Putnam adventure. Off to quell pirates in the Pacific segues into Hawaii as a monarchy, missionaries, and very careful diplomacy.
Still a farmer at heart, Bliven Putnam does his duty and goes back to sea in a small sloop. Fretting over the impressment of his friend Sam challenges his concentration for his naval career. He does manage to be present when Old Ironsides becomes the nickname for the frigate USS Constitution as well as during both of her victories over British warships. A good insightful story about events little known to those who read about naval history during the Age of Sail.
In Wolf: the Lives of Jack London, James Haley skillfully portrays the many lives lived by one of America’s most beloved writers. From a poor work beast to an oyster pirate, a lawman with the fish patrol to a seal hunter, a tramp to a student, a prospector to an aspiring writer, a muckraker to a war correspondent, a lover to a celebrity, a sailor to a rancher, he finally succumbed to his failing health as a jaded and terminally ill 40-year-old.
Famous for The Call of the Wild, The Sea-Wolf, White Fang, John Barleycorn, and The Star-Rover, he was a prolific writer who never failed to turn out 1,000 pages a day. His short life was an interesting mix of fascinating adventures and a successive string of tragedies that he always found a way of over-coming until the very end. His life is best summed up by his credo: “The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
London did indeed use his time, as he left behind a vast and varied collection of essays, short stories, and novels. He was the first world-wide celebrity writer who made a fortune writing,
yet he was always broke due to his generosity and sense of duty in caring for those whom he loved. He was a fierce lover of animals, and he traveled the world seeking adventure, yet he was at his happiest and most at peace at his Beauty Ranch in the Valley of the Moon, in Glen Ellen, California, now the Jack London State Park, where he and his wife Charmian are buried.
Haley’s biography of Jack London is interring, honest, touching, but not sentimental. London would have approved of it I’m sure.… (més)
Famous for The Call of the Wild, The Sea-Wolf, White Fang, John Barleycorn, and The Star-Rover, he was a prolific writer who never failed to turn out 1,000 pages a day. His short life was an interesting mix of fascinating adventures and a successive string of tragedies that he always found a way of over-coming until the very end. His life is best summed up by his credo: “The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
London did indeed use his time, as he left behind a vast and varied collection of essays, short stories, and novels. He was the first world-wide celebrity writer who made a fortune writing,
yet he was always broke due to his generosity and sense of duty in caring for those whom he loved. He was a fierce lover of animals, and he traveled the world seeking adventure, yet he was at his happiest and most at peace at his Beauty Ranch in the Valley of the Moon, in Glen Ellen, California, now the Jack London State Park, where he and his wife Charmian are buried.
Haley’s biography of Jack London is interring, honest, touching, but not sentimental. London would have approved of it I’m sure.… (més)
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- Obres
- 21
- També de
- 1
- Membres
- 780
- Popularitat
- #32,630
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 20
- ISBN
- 75
- Llengües
- 2
