The winning book of 1978 was a bio of this man by W. Jackson Bate, not Boswell
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THE LITERARY VIEW - The New York Times  Feb 26, 1978 ... February 26, 1978, Page 1 The New York Times Archives. WALTER JACKSON BATE'S biography of Samuel Johnson appeared on nearly ... it was by far the most popular book of the year, and it went on to win the N.B.C.C.'s ... He notes that Boswell's life contains only part of the man, the Johnson of legend.
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CELEBRATING JOHNSON'S BICENTENNIAL - NYTimes.com  Sep 24, 1984 ... Walter Jackson Bate. ... Professor Bate, whose course at Harvard on ''The Age of Johnson'' ... Johnson's Toryism is traditionally recalled through Boswell's own very ... died in 1978 after completing his biography of Johnson's middle years. ... Yale is not only the scene of a new scholarly edition of Johnson's...
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Walter Jackson Bate - The New York Times  Jul 28, 1999 ... Walter Jackson Bate, noted English professor and biographer, dies at age 81; photo (M) ... in 1978 for his biography of Johnson, England's contradictory man of letters ... The book went on to win the National Book Award and the National ... Comparing Mr. Bate's biography to James Boswell's definitive 1791...
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J! Archive - Show #2981, aired 1997-07-14  This man's wife, the former Claudia Alta Taylor, was the mother of Lynda Bird & Luci Baines .... 1954's winner was this man's book "The Spirit of St. Louis" ... Walter Jackson Bate, not James Boswell, won in 1978 for a biography on this man...
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Samuel Johnson: W. Jackson Bate: 9780701122997: Amazon.com ...  Samuel Johnson [W. Jackson Bate] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying ... Samuel Johnson Hardcover  May 11, 1978. by W. Jackson Bate (Author).
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Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge - Hoover Institution  Washington and Lee in 1951, tried out, alas, unsuccessfully for the pitching staff of the then New York Giants, then received a Doctorate in American Studies from Yale ... He is the author of among many other works ... Back to Blood, he once proclaimed that the new ... course, "Bonfire of the Vanities" is New York in the '80s.
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Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography - Infoplease  1954: The Spirit of St. Louis, Charles A. Lindbergh ... 1993: Truman, David McCullough ... 1996: God: A Biography, Jack Miles ... 1999: Lindbergh, A. Scott Berg ... 2007: The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher...
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NO BUSINESS LIKE CHURCH BUSINESS - The Washington Post  Oct 29, 1989 ... FORGIVEN The Rise and Fall of Jim Bakker And the PTL Ministry;By Charles E. ... us to the conclusion that Bakker was a "wholesale failure as a moral leader. ... Telling the story of Jim Bakker without mentioning those successes would ... If Charles Shepard's facts are correct, that is what Bakker tried to do.
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1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four Study Guide | Novelguide  "If there is hope [wrote Winston] it lies in the proles" (p. 69). ... He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother" (p. ... Author's View of Human Behaivior.
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Black American Biographies,The Journey of Achievement.doc - Scribd  On the cover: U.S. abolitionist, writer, and orator Frederick Douglass is among the bright- ..... heroic, inspiring, and human stories of hundreds of African Americans who have made ... he African American struggle for freedom has had many faces ..... his novel The Confessions of Nat ...... for A Woman Called Moses (1978), a
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Babbitt (novel) - Wikipedia  Babbitt, first published in 1922, is a novel by Sinclair Lewis. Largely a satire of American culture ... The civic boosters and self-made men of the middle-class represented ... In a speech to the Zenith Real Estate Board, he states: "It may be true that New ... On the day that Babbitt gets elected vice-president of the Booster's club,...
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The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915, by Louis R. Harlan  The 1984 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography or Autobiography ... T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915, by Louis R. Harlan (Oxford U. Press).
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Newbery Medal Winners, 1922 - Present | Association for Library ...  Newbery Medal Winners, 1922 - Present ... 1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates (Dutton) ... 1940: Daniel Boone by James Daugherty (Viking)
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Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate  Reviews, Discussion ...  Adam said: I'd say this is the best Johnson biography of them all. Better even than Boswell's, this not on... ... W. Jackson Bate's Samuel Johnson has been hailed as a supreme example of the biographer's art and the first ..... Literary critic Walter Jackson Bate twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, first for his work on the...
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Pulitzer Prize | American award | Britannica.com  Apr 19, 2016 ... Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for biography or autobiography are listed in the table. ... 1948, Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow, Margaret Clapp ... 1983, Growing Up, Russell Baker ...... Editor Picks is a list series for Britannica editors to provide opinions and commentary on topics of personal interest.
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An American Myth Rides Into the Sunset - The New York Times  Mar 30, 2003 ... Op-Ed article by Susan Faludi says Bush administration has worked hard to present ... says Bush himself has gone through Western cliche checklist: 'hunt 'em down,' 'go it ... to a gun fight that didn't happen in ''The Virginian,'' Owen Wister's 1902 novel. ... Wister dedicated ''The Virginian'' to Teddy Roosevelt.
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Samuel Johnson: W. Jackson Bate: 9781887178761: Amazon.com ...  W. Jackson Bate's Samuel Johnson has been hailed as a supreme example of the ... Splendor of Heart: Walter Jackson Bate and the Teaching of Literature .... to be James Boswell, and have first hand acquaintance with Samuel Johnson, ... Using Amazon as the middle-man to locate this out-of-print hardback was very easy.
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Wikipedia  The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, first published in 1989, is a business and self-help book written by Stephen R. Covey. Covey presents an approach to being effective in attaining goals by aligning .... Since this book's publishing, a number of books appearing in the business press have discussed the idea. Covey...
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Templeton Prize - Previous Winners  Arthur Peacocke, a physical biochemist who pioneered early research into the ... His books include Disturbing the Universe (1974), Infinite in All Directions (1985), ... Lord Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth from 1967 to ... Baba Amte left his comfortable life as a wealthy Hindu lawyer to follow a...
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Rescuing John Cheever's Reputation - philly-archives  Oct 6, 1991 ... Cheever's oldest son, speaking for his mother, brother and sister, ... and The Stories of John Cheever (1978) produced his end-of-career ... words Gottlieb confronted, he has carved a 170,000-word memoir of ... His big break was the 1958 National Book Award for his first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle.
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'The Last Civilized Man on Earth': The Incomparable Max Beerbohm  Sep 3, 1995 ... And yet I wouldn't waste your time in consideration of a writer who wasn't a ... In his prose, as in his drawings, Max Beerbohm hardly knew failure; time ... was also the first Henry Higgins in George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion. ... plays for The Saturday Review and was succeeded by Beerbohm, .... Hush, sir!