314. Personal History, by Vincent Sheean (read 14 Mar 1947) On Mar 10, 1947, I said of this book: "Reading in Personal History. Improving now.:" On March 14 I said: " Finished Personal History, which was very good in places." In the years since I read this book I have often thought about it and I have good memories of it. ( )

“…Sheean was one of the great independent foreign correspondents of the 20th century. This was written when he was a relatively young man in the 1930s. It is a story of the news as he saw it – and felt it. Sheean reported events from his own perspective. He is the centre of the story even when he is not talking about himself. He portrayed himself as a kind of everyman against which the news reverberated…”(reviewed by John Hamilton in FiveBooks).



Full interview is available here: http://fivebooks.com/interviews/john-m-hamilton-on-american-foreign-reporting ( )