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On democracy
- Title
- On democracy / E.B. White ; edited by Martha White ; foreword by Jon Meacham.
- Author
- White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985
- Publication
- New York, NY : Harper, 2019.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFC 19-518 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
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- Description
- xxxii, 203 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- "Anchored by an introduction by Jon Meacham, this concise collection of essays, letters, and poems from one of this country's most eminent literary voices sheds much-needed historical context on the state of the nation and offers a ray of hope for the future of our society; for "as long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman...the scene is not desolate.""--
- Uniform Title
- Works. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Works.
- Subject
- Contents
- Introduction by Jon Meacham -- High ambiguity -- Dissenting supreme court justice -- Statement of the foreign policy of one citizen of the United States (poem) -- Down with cake (poem) -- Controlled opinion -- Freedom of the air (and the right to silence ...) -- Political beneficiaries -- Now ... the judiciary -- I say to you, cheerio (poem) -- Standards of journalism -- Total moral resistance -- Freedom -- Intimations -- Treason, defined (when congress delays an issue) -- Crackpots -- The meaning of democracy -- Definition of fascism -- Preface to The wild flag -- No fooling -- Bill of human rights -- Right to work -- International justice system -- Pearl Harbour investigation (poem) -- Instructions to a delegate -- Spy system -- (The importance of) many newspaper owners -- Love among the foreign offices (poem) -- Dwindling ownership of the press -- Herald Tribune ("Hollywood ten" letters) -- Loyalty -- Spy (poem) -- Temple of democracy -- Death of the Sun -- The thud of ideas -- Not conforming to facts -- Murder of La prensa -- Discredit of others -- The ABC of security (poem) -- FCC background noise -- One hour to think -- Bedfellows -- Khrushchev and I (a study in similarities) -- Unity -- Burdens of high office (poem) -- Freedom of choice (Letter to the Weekly packet) -- Democracy is destructible (Letter to the Bangor daily news) -- Margaret Chase Smith (Letter to the senator) -- Carnegie commission on educational television (letter to Stephen White) -- Press must be free (Letter to the Bangor daily news) -- On hope (letter to Mr. Nadeau) -- Don't bet on it (letter to the Bangor daily news) -- The Xerox letters (letter to the editor of the Ellsworth American, and follow-up) -- Reverses of fortune -- Credits -- Index.
- Call Number
- JFC 19-518
- ISBN
- 9780062905437
- 0062905430
- 9780062912060 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018045976
- OCLC
- 1057245705
- Author
- White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985, author.
- Title
- On democracy / E.B. White ; edited by Martha White ; foreword by Jon Meacham.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Harper, 2019.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- White, Martha, 1954 December 18- editor.Meacham, Jon, writer of introduction.
- Other Form:
- Online version: White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985, author. On democracy First edition. New York, NY : Harper, 2019 9780062905444 (DLC) 2018048694
- Research Call Number
- JFC 19-518