De Voto
Americannoun
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Strachey was imitated throughout the '20s and '30s and, wrote Bernard De Voto, "biography seemed to be no more than a high-spirited game of yanking out shirttails and setting fire to them."
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With it, said De Voto, Twain exposed the hypocrisy of a century in which aggrandizement all too often passed under the name of progress.
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Twelve years later, Harvard Critic Bernard De Voto challenged that theory by showing that Twain's very humor was a crusader's weapon.
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From Francis Parkman to Bernard De Voto, scholars have unearthed the routes and reminiscences of the "mountain men" in the 19th century, devoting volumes to their exploits.
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Announcement by Bernard De Voto; pref., introd., emendations and corrections by Robert S. Forsythe. © on new material; 11Apr30; A6-21794.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1958 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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