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A century of arts & letters : the history of the National Institute of Arts & Letters and the American Academy of Arts & Letters as told, decade by decade, by eleven members
Title:
A century of arts & letters : the history of the National Institute of Arts & Letters and the American Academy of Arts & Letters as told, decade by decade, by eleven members
Author:
Achincloss, Louis.
Publication Information:
New York : Columbia University Press, [1998]

©1998
Physical Description:
xii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
1898-1907 : founders' story / R.W.B. Lewis -- 1908-1917 : idealism and patriotism / Louis Auchincloss -- 1918-1927 : against modernity annals of the temple / Cynthia Ozick -- 1928-1937 : infiltration of modernity / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. -- 1938-1947 : decade of the row / John Updike -- 1948-1957 : testimony of two artists / Richard Lippold and Wolf Kahn -- 1958-1967 : rounding camelot / Norman Mailer -- 1968-1977 : housekeeping in a messy world / Jack Beeson -- 1978-1987 : holding the high ground / Ada Louise Huxtable -- 1988-1997 : decade of reunion / Hortense Calisher
Corporate Subject:
National Institute of Arts and Letters (U.S.) -- History.

American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters -- History.
Added Author:
Achincloss, Louis.

Updike, John.
ISBN:
9780231102483
Format :
Book

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