Cleveland Amory: Media Curmudgeon & Animal Rights Crusader.
Published by Hanover: University Press of New England, ()., 2009
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Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA, Dade City, FL, U.S.A.Lighthouse Books, ABAA
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Octavo, red cloth & black boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 252 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: In this first comprehensive biography of Cleveland Amory, Marilyn Greenwald applies her considerable journalistic skills to a searching account of the complex life and times of this successful writer turned dedicated animal-rights activist. Amory's intense commitment to his chosen cause, ignited by the spectacle of a Mexican bullfight he covered as a young journalist, permeated every aspect of his life. His best-selling books included three classic social critiques --The Proper Bostonians, The Last Resorts, and Who Killed Society? -- and his popular series on "Polar Bear," the cat he rescued from the seets of Manhattan on Christmas Eve in 1978, now available as The Compleat Cat. In the 1960s and 1970s, Amory wrote poliifically for TV Guide (for which he was a chief critic for over a decade), Saturday Review, Parade, and other publications. American Biography bslic.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Cleveland Amory: Media Curmudgeon & Animal Rights Crusader.
- Author
- Greenwald, Marilyn.
- Publisher
- Hanover: University Press of New England, ().
- Publication year
- 2009
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
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