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Hemingway and His Conspirators
Hollywood, Scribners, and the Making of American Celebrity Culture
by Leonard J. Leff
ISBN: 0847685446
ISBN-13: 9780847685448
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
A biography of Hemingway that concentrates on his ambition and celebrityhood.
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
Published date: 1997
Size: 6.5 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 1.25 pounds
Pages: 255
Publisher's Notes
With a cast of famous characters, the backstage story of how Hemingway siezed upon an emerging mass culture to become the premier author of the twentieth century.
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Hemingway and His Conspirators: Hollywood,Scribners, and the Making of American Celebrity Culture
Leonard J. Leff
Lanham: Roman & Littlefield, 1997. 255 pages (index), illustrated, a portrait of Ernest Hemingway during the 1920s and 1930s, jacket has slight edge wear, two pages folded at corner tips, slight creasing to the upper corners of pages 191-194, also crease at bottom of 194.. ISBN: 0847685446. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Biography, American Authors, Media, Hollywood, Motion Pictures. ( more information)
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Hemingway and His Conspirators: Hollywood,Scribners, and the Making of American Celebrity Culture
Leff, Leonard J
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 0847685446 . Dust jacket has stressed edges at top corners, and top of spine, otherwise very nice. Book has bumps to top corners of boards, and light softening of top end of spine, otherwise pristine with tight binding and NO markings. Literature (Hemingway). Pasadena's premier independent new and used bookstore. ; 0.91 x 9.33 x 6.17 Inches; 256 pages . ( more information)
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Hemingway and His Conspirators: Hollywood, Scribners and the Making of American Celebrity Culture
Leff, Leonard J
Rowman & Littlewood Publishers, Inc., Lanham, MD, 1997. VG/VG, almost like new. Black boards and spine with gilt lettering, hardcover.. 255 + xviii pp incl contents, preface, afterword, notes, works cited, acknowledgements, an index and about the author, ( more information)
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HEMINGWAY AND HIS CONSPIRATORS: Hollywood, Scribners, and the making of American Celeberity Culture
Leff, Leonard J
Rowman & Littlefield, 1997. 1st edition. Hardcover. As NEW in As NEW DJ. This is a nice clean copy, with very little evidence of wear, the spine is solid, there is no writing from the previous owner, The text is clean and pages are not torn or dirty. We provide fast and reliable shipping service. We started to sell on the internet in 1998. We ship either the day the order comes in or the next day. If an order comes in after noon on Friday (California Time) it will be shipped Monday Morning. All our books are guaranteed. ( more information)
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Hemingway and His Conspirators: Hollywood, Scribners, and the Making of American Celebrity Culture
Leff, Leonard J
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 1997. Hard Cover. Leonard J. Leff -- 1st Edition 1st Printing -- FINE/FINE -- copy of Hemingway and His Conspirators: Hollywood, Scribners, and the Making of American Celebrity Culture. Tall 8vo. 255 pp., including an index. Fully bound in black paper boards, with gilt lettering to the spine. Illustrated with eight glossy pages of black-and-white photographs. The head and tail of the spine are a trifle bumped. The corners are sharp, the hinges are strong, and the text is clean and sharp throughout. The Fine pictorial dustwrapper retains the publisher's original price of $22.95 to the top-right corner of the front flap. The rear panel is lightly rubbed, and the top edge of the front panel contains a 0.5cm closed tear. A wonderful copy. WHS Published by: Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1997 First edition. ( more information)
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Hemingway and His Conspirators: Hollywood, Scribner's, and the Making of American Celebrity Culture
LEFF, LEONARD J
Lanham:: Rowman & Littlefield,, 1997. 0847685446. First Printing. A Fine unread copy in a Fine bright dj. Leonard Leff has written an engaging and entertaining portrait of Ernest Hemingway during the 1920s and 1930s and his role in the commercial contexts of publishers, reprint houses, photographers, reporters, and movie companies. Both a biographical sketch and American cultural study, Hemingway and His Conspirators charts the projection of Hemingway from an unknown author committed to the craft of writing into a world-famous celebrity and story-teller who became the most important character of every book that he wrote. Using letters and archival documents, Leff revealingly discloses how both Hemingway's writings and his persona as a writer, war hero, and adventurer were packaged and promoted in the early years of his career. Leff's book shows the major difficulties that Hemingway had with publishers concerned with obscenity and sexuality, and the major role played by Scribners editor Max Perkins in championing Hemingway's writings. Leff's Hemingway goes beyond other biographical studies to expose how the public figure of Hemingway was created by mass media with the help of and eventually beyond the control of Ernest Hemingway. With a cast of players such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Helen Hayes, Sinclair Lewis, David Selznick, and Gary Cooper, the book succeeds in portraying the personal and commercial creation of a tragic public figure in a world of promotion, advertising, and publicity.. ( more information)
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