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When the Century Was Young
Author: Dee Alexander Brown

Jacket flaps: "The early part of this century was the golden age of print, and I was born into it. Newspapers, magazines and books --i n that order -- were the major sources of information and entertainment. Radio and television came later as interloping marvels, but even to this day the electronic devices do not match the authority of print." — ... more »Dee Brown was born in 1908 in a small Louisiana town where little had changed since Reconstruction. From the beginning, young Brown seemed destined to be a key witness to many of the century's dramas, which he recounts in this memoir that covers the first half of the century and the first half of his life.

When he was twelve, his mother became postmistress of the oil boom town of Stephens, Arkansas; she put her son in charge of special deliveries, which enabled him to eavesdrop on the wild catters, lease hounds, and flimflammers that descended on the town.

As a young man, Brown worked as a printer's devil and reporter in the Ozark Mountains, frequently composing his stories directly on a Linotype. Though he soon left to attend George Washington University, he credits the Newman brothers of that small-town newspaper for his real education.

Brown lived in Washington during the early days of Roosevelt's New Deal, consulted with fabled editor Maxwell Perkins on a book about the Indian Wars, was drafted in World War II (joining the Army Specialized Training Program, which lost his unit's orders for the better part of a year), and worked as a military librarian during the Cold War.

With a storyteller's sense of drama, a penetrating eye for the telling detail, and a bemusement toward the absurdities of twentieth-century existence, Brown traces the influences that led to his fascination with the American West, his unflagging zeal for research, and above all, his devotion to the printed word.

Dee Brown is the best-selling author of "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," "Creek Mary's Blood," "Wondrous Times on the Frontier," and 24 other books about the American frontier. He grew up in northern Louisiana and southern Arkansas moving to Little Rock in his teen years. Before studying in Washington, Mr. Brown worked as a printer's devil and reporter in the Ozark Mountains. After a long career as agricultural librarian at the University of Illinois, Mr. Brown makes his home in Little Rock, the town he grew up in.

ISBN-13: 9780874832679
ISBN-10: 0874832675
Publication Date: 9/1993
Pages: 223
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Publisher: August House Publishers
Book Type: Hardcover
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