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“bernard devoto”

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  • The Year Of Decision, 1846

    by Bernard DeVoto ...
    This book tells the story of some people who went west in 1846.Its purpose is to tell that story in such a way that the reader may realize the far western frontier experience, which is part of our cultural inheritance, as personal experience. But 1846 is chosen rather than other years because 1846 best dramatizes personal experience as national experience. Most of our characters are ordinary ... Read more

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  • The Year Of Decision: 1846

    by Bernard DeVoto ...
    This book tells many fascinating stories of the U.S. explorers who began the Western march from the Mississippi to the Pacific, from Canada to the annexation of Texas, California, and the Southwest lands from Mexico. It is the penultimate book of a trilogy which includes Across the Wide Missouri, for which DeVoto won both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes in 1948, and The Course of Empire, which ... Read more

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  • The Year of Decision 1846

    by Bernard DeVoto ...
    A classic history of the pre-Civil War, far western frontier of the United States, from a Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author."In the first volume of the trilogy, Devoto made 1846 the "year of the decision." The reason was that it was in 1846 that America began a war with Mexico that would lead to the annexation of New Mexico, Arizona, and California; and that America settled a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Western Paradox

    A Conservation Reader

    by Bernard DeVoto ...
    Series series The Lamar Series in Western History
    This book is the fascinating record of DeVoto’s crusade to save the West from itself. . . . His arguments, insights, and passion are as relevant and urgent today as they were when he first put them on paper.”-Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., from the ForewordBernard DeVoto (1897-1955) was, according to the novelist Wallace Stegner, a fighter for public causes, for conservation of our natural resources, ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Hour

    A Cocktail Manifesto

    by Bernard Devoto ...
    “Dorothy Parker's stern eye mixed with the sass of Mark Twain, and a jigger of Christopher Hitchens thrown in for good, boozy measure.” —The AtlanticOne part celebration, one part history, two parts manifesto, Bernard DeVoto’s The Hour is a comic and unequivocal treatise on how and why we drink—properly. The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author turns his shrewd wit on the spirits ... Read more

    $8.99 USD