Our Kind of People: The Story of an American Family
by Yardley, Jonathan
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Signed on fep. DJ has slight wear and soiling.
- ISBN 10
- 1555841740
- ISBN 13
- 9781555841744
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989. First edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Signed on fep. DJ has slight wear and soiling.. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. [10], 356, [2] p. Jonathan Yardley (born 1939) was a book critic at The Washington Post, and at one time of the Washington Star. In 1981 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. After leaving Chapel Hill, Yardley interned at the New York Times as assistant to James Reston, the columnist and Washington Bureau chief. From 1978 to 1981, he was the book critic at the Washington Star, receiving a Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism in 1981. In 1981, Yardley became book critic and columnist at the Washington Post. Our Kind of People, describes his parents' 50-year marriage and casts a wry eye on the American WASP experience.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 71678
- Title
- Our Kind of People: The Story of an American Family
- Author
- Yardley, Jonathan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Signed on fep. DJ has slight wear and soiling.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition [stated]. First printing [stated]
- ISBN 10
- 1555841740
- ISBN 13
- 9781555841744
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, Ingersoll, Woolsey, Helen Gregory, Harvard, Bennington, Chatham Hall, Educators
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