Controversy and other essays in journalism, 1950-1975
By: William Manchester.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1976
Place of publication: Boston, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Controversy.; title: Mid campfires gleaming: The Spanish American War. The Great War. The island war. Corps d'elite. The man who couldn't speak Japanese.; title: Ways and means: The Treasury Department. The great bank holiday. Slum lord. The founding grandfather.; title: Americana: The tribal American. The New York Times. A slight case of McCarthyism. In defense of snobs.; title: Public men: Adlai in defeat. Walter Reuther. Cairo after Farouk.; title: Envoi: My old man, the last years of H. L. Mencken.