Memories of Men and Women American & British - Tapa blanda

...provides a generational backdrop of intellectual and personal bonds that will be hard to duplicate in the late 20th century. The value of Rowse's essays is that they provide another thread from Henry James into modern times, revealing and defining Europeans and Americans of early and mid-century.... * Europe * This book is a treasure chest of anecdotes, ideas and insights) and a historian's personal glimpses of his great contemporaries.... * Barbara W. Tuchman * This book is a treasure chest of anecdotes, ideas and insights) and a historian's personal glimpses of his great contemporaries.... * Barbara W. Tuchman * ...provides a generational backdrop of intellectual and personal bonds that will be hard to duplicate in the late 20th century. The value of Rowse's essays is that they provide another thread from Henry James into modern times, revealing and defining Europeans and Americans of early and mid-century.... * Europe *

This collection of intimate portraits of eleven famous men and women originally published by Eyre Methuen, Ltd. in 1980, is based on Rowse's own friendship with his subjects, all of whom have made significant contributions to modern literature or politics. They include Sir Winston Churchill, Lady Astor, Agatha Christie, Samuel Eliot Morison, G.M. Trevelyan, Andre Maurois, Edmund Wilson, W.H. Auden, Admiral Nimitz, T.S. Eliot, and Willa Cather.