Mark Feeney
Auteur de Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief
A propos de l'auteur
Mark Feeney, a writer, editor, and reviewer at The Boston Globe since 1979, won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. He has written for The New Republic, The American Scholar, and other publications. A lecturer in American Studies at Brandeis University, he has also taught at Princeton, Yale, and afficher plus Brown Universities. afficher moins
Crédit image: Courtesy of the Pulitzer Prizes.
Œuvres de Mark Feeney
The great art rescue of WWII 1 exemplaire
Nixon and the Silver Screen (Chicago Shorts) 1 exemplaire
'Europa' details Nazis' art theft 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- male
- Prix et distinctions
- Pulitzer Prize (Criticism, 2008)
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 5
- Membres
- 53
- Popularité
- #303,173
- Évaluation
- 4.3
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 4
The result is an engrossing read. Though Feeney provides no new details about Nixon's life or his time in office, he draws out connections that deepen our understanding of the man and provide some interesting interpretations of his character. It also has the effect of humanizing the 37th president in a way that that few other books have before, showing how, at his core, Nixon was a person who enjoyed losing himself in movies as much as anyone else. While this is not the first book people should seek out to learn about Richard Nixon, the originality of Feeney's approach and the insights it provides make it one that nobody seeking to make sense of the man can afford to neglect.… (plus d'informations)