Title: Contemporary American biography,
Authors: Beckwith, John A.,; Coope, Geoffrey,; Beckwith, John A. 1902-1974,; Coope, Geoffrey,
Publisher: Harper & brothers
Year: 1941
Subjects: Biography as a literary form; United States Biography.
Contents: Introduction -- COMPARATIVE READINGS IN BIOGRAPHY -- Brains win and lose : Woodrow Wilson / Gamaliel Bradford -- Meester Veelson : [Woodrow Wilson] / John Dos Passos -- Justice Holmes / Beverly Smith -- Oliver Wendell Holmes : justice touched with fire / Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant -- Steve Foster of "Tin pan alley" / Sigmund Spaeth -- Stephen Foster / Ted Malone -- Stephen Foster / Haniel Long -- BIOGRAPHY -- Mary Lincoln : wife and widow / Carl Sandburg -- Elinor Wylie / Carl Van Doren -- Nellie Bly / Ishbel Ross -- Horatio Alger, Jr. / Frederick Lewis Allen -- PROFILE AND PORTRAIT -- Past master : [George S. Kaufman] / staff of Time -- Excellency in a ricksha : [Nelson Trusler Johnson] / staff of Time -- Dewey at 80 / staff of Time -- Darrow, friendly enemy / Clarence True Wilson -- Boy meets bullfinch : [Dr. Frank M. Chapman] / Geoffrey T. Hellman -- The pope : [Pope Pius XII] / Frederic Sondern, Jr. -- Hick on Broadway : [George Abbott] / Alice Leone Moats -- Hitler / John Gunther -- "This ageless soul" : [Orson Welles] / Russell Maloney -- Admiral Byrd / Charles J.V. Murphy -- AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- The education of an American / Mark Sullivan -- I, Patience / Patience, Richard, and John Abbe -- Fossil remnants of the frontier : notes on a Utah boyhood / Bernard De Voto -- Get out and hoe / Claude V. Dunnagan -- The hiding generation / James Thurber -- Notes on authors and selections -- A reader's guide to facts and interpretation.