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S'està carregant… Connecticut Yankee: an Autobiography (1943 original; edició 1943)de Wilbur L. Cross
Informació de l'obraConnecticut Yankee; An Autobiography de Wilbur L. Cross (1943)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. For students of academic history and Connecticut political history, a very interesting book. The first half to 3/5ths of the book is Dr. Cross' own account of growing up in rural Connecticut, and gradually rising through the ranks of academia until he reached the position of Provost of Yale University. This part of the book is very chatty and entertaining, and indeed shows a lot of charm. The latter part of the book, which details his account of his tenure (during the Great Depression) as Governor of Connecticut has its interesting points, though it can be a bit elusive. He never really comes to grips with just how the Democratic Party settled on him as a candidate, and there's a whiff of sour grapes in his account of his defeat in 1938. There's also a bit of (somewhat justifiable) sour grapes when it comes to his dealings with the legislature. Still, a worthy book and a good read. ( ) 3616. Connecticut Yankee: An Autobiography, by Wilbur L. Cross (read 15 Aug 2002) This is a 1943 book by a Yale professor who served as Governor of Connecticut from 1930 to 1938, and I thought it was a good read, though some of the account of long-ago Connecticut matters could not be too riveting to me, who has no connection to the state. I was struck by his quote of a contemporary of Queen Elizabeth I who said "She hath built herself a bath wherein she doth bathe herself once a month whether she require it or no." This confirms a statement my father told me many years ago, though my father was not an Elizabethan scholar. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
Equal parts nostalgic, witty, self-serving, and frank, Connecticut Yankee is an entertaining and informative memoir of the state and a scholar who shaped it. Connecticut native, Yale graduate, Yale professor and dean, and finally, unlikely Governor of the State of Connecticut during the crucial Depression years, Wilbur L. Cross' s autobiography tells a great American story. As a Yale professor, a writer, and an editor, Wilbur L. Cross devoted himself to the English language, and specifically to understanding how novels were capable of capturing the human condition. His autobiography, Connecticut Yankee is in many ways a novel itself. The protagonist is Cross and the plot is his education. Wilbur Lucius Cross was a most unlikely politician. A noted author and literary critic who had been a professor of English, editor of the Yale Review, and finally, Dean of the Yale Graduate School, his quiet character and almost poetic oration would seem at odds with the cut-throat world of state politics. But is was just this stoic demeanor and inquisitive intelligence, that would help him make a mark on Connecticut politics during his four terms of office, from 1931 to 1939. During his time as governor, he suffered the hardest years of the Depression and worked to implement President Roosevelt's New Deal, fought for the abolition of child labor, instituted a minimum wage, improved working conditions in factories, and guided the state's recovery from the devastation of the Great New England Hurricane. He also strove to reorganize the state government, and would help revitalize Connecticut's Democratic Party, which had been torn by internal strife. Cross was an excellent writer, and here--updated with a new foreword by Yale Law School graduate and author Justin Zaremby--is his compelling account of life from a childhood in the bucolic town of Mansfield, through the hallowed halls of learning at Yale University, to the highest office in Connecticut. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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