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020 $a9781559708364 (alk. paper)
020 $a1559708360 (alk. paper)
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035 $a(OCoLC)77011541
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100 1 $aJones, Brian Jay.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006093742
245 10 $aWashington Irving :$ban American original /$cBrian Jay Jones.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bArcade Pub. :$bDistributed by Hachette Book Group USA,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $ax, 468 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, portraits ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [451]-453) and index.
520 1 $a"Born in 1783 and named after George Washington, Washington Irving is widely recognized as the father of American letters. The first American writer to live by his pen and the first to have an international reputation, he gave his fledgling nation her very own distinct literature. Best remembered as the author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip van Winkle," Irving was a lawyer, diplomat, and presidential confidant. But he was also a fun-loving, effortlessly charming scamp known for his sharp wit and scintillating conversation - especially among the ladies." "At the age of twenty-six, Irving rocketed to fame with the publication of his first book, A History of New York. A sly satire that won him great acclaim, it was published under the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker (to whom the New York Knicks owe their name). And in the pages of Salmagundi - a nineteenth-century forerunner to Mad magazine created by Irving and his cronies - he gave New York a nickname that would be forever synonymous with the city: Gotham." "In this evaluation of a life, Brian Jay Jones renders Washington Irving in all his flawed splendor - a hugely successful man who fretted about money and employment, suffered from writer's block and depression, and doggedly cultivated his reputation. At the time, Irving was one of the most famous men in the world. Feted and courted on both sides of the Atlantic, he was a friend of the writers Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, presidents Martin Van Buren, John Tyler, and James Madison, and business tycoon John Jacob Astor. But the sparkling public persona of this gentleman author was only one side of Irving. Jones reveals as never before a very human portrait of the often contrasting public and private lives of this true American original."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aIrving, Washington,$d1783-1859.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79005645
650 0 $aAuthors, American$y19th century$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100461
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