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  1. The Books: Essays of E.B. White, "The Railroad"

    As with much of White's stuff, the piece is part history and part memoir. Excerpt from Essays of E. B. White, "The Railroad" Today, as my thoughts wander affectionately back over fifty-five years of railroading, the thing that strikes me as most revealing about that first rail trip in 1905 is the running time of the train.

  2. Essays of E. B. White. : E. B. White : Free Download, Borrow, and

    Essays of E. B. White. by E. B. White. Publication date 1977 Publisher Harper & Row Collection internetarchivebooks; americana; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 576.0M . Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2011-11-04 17:26:53 Boxid ...

  3. The E.B. White Collection

    The E.B. White Collection contains manuscripts, letters, documents, clippings, photographs, filmstrips, film reels, note cards, cassette tapes, bound photocopies, medals and awards by, to, or about E.B. White, spanning the entire range of his activities throughout his life. Letters consist of ca. 3,000 letters by White and 25,000 letters to him ...

  4. Essays of E. B. White

    His essay "The Railroad" is a eulogy for what was once a majestic form of transportation. A similar eulogy is required today for the bygone days when airline travel was fun and original. White's essays provide me with an escape from everything that announces its self-importance. His language is careful, his tone casual, and his manner is ...

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  6. Essays of E. B. White by E. B. White

    Work Description. When E.B. White received the Gold Medal for Essays and Criticism from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the following citation, here quoted in part, accompanied the award: "If we are remembered as a civilized era, I think it will be partly because of E.B. White. The historians of the future will decide that a writer of ...

  7. Essays of E. B. White

    He died on October 1, 1985, and was survived by his son and three grandchildren.Mr. White's essays have appeared in Harper's magazine, and some of his other books are: One Man's Meat, The Second Tree from the Corner, Letters of E. B. White, Essays of E. B. White, and Poems and Sketches of E. B. White. He won countless awards, including the 1971 ...

  8. Appreciating E.B. White

    Relevant to Times. But surprise! Reading E. B. White in 1977, one finds him highly relevant to the times. In his politics he long ago came to stand for what many have admired about the Carter Administration: a tougher-minded attitude toward the Soviet Union, a respect for the absolute rights of human beings everywhere and a healthy skepticism ...

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  10. Essays of E.B. White

    Elwyn Brooks White. Harper & Row, 1979 - Literary Collections - 277 pages. "When E.B. White received the Gold Medal for Essays and Criticism from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the following citation, here quoted in part, accompanied the award: 'If we are remembered as a civilized era, I think it will be partly because of E.B. White.

  11. Essays of E. B. White

    The classic collection by one of the greatest essayists of our time. Selected by E.B. White himself, the essays in this volume span a lifetime of writing and a body of work without peer. "I have chosen the ones that have amused me in the rereading," he writes in the Foreword, "alone with a few that seemed to have the odor of durability clinging ...

  12. Essays of E.B. White by E.B. White

    E.B. White. Elwyn Brooks White was a leading American essayist, author, humorist, poet and literary stylist and author of such beloved children's classics as Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, and The Trumpet of the Swan. He graduated from Cornell University in 1921 and, five or six years later, joined the staff of The New Yorker magazine.

  13. Paris Review

    E. B. White. , The Art of the Essay No. 1. E. B. White and his dog Minnie. If it happens that your parents concern themselves so little with the workings of boys' minds as to christen you Elwyn Brooks White, no doubt you decide as early as possible to identify yourself as E.B. White. If it also happens that you attend Cornell, whose first ...

  14. Background Essay on Building the Railroads · SHEC: Resources for Teachers

    The railroad, a symbol of both progress and peril, spurred rapid and far-reaching changes in late nineteenth century American society. Supported by government funds, railroad building boomed after the Civil War. There were only 2,000 miles of track in 1850; by 1877 there were nearly 80,000 miles in use. Crossing the wilderness, carrying people ...

  15. Table of Contents: Essays of E.B. White. :: Library Catalog Search

    Essays of E.B. White. New York : Harper & Row, c1977. American essays > 20th century. Check Holdings for more information. Search for the book on EZBorrow. EZBorrow is the easiest and fastest way to get the book you want (ebooks unavailable). Use ILLiad for articles and chapter scans. Make an ILLIAD request.

  16. Eighty-Five from the Archive: E. B. White

    White continued writing for the magazine until the late seventies, and he was awarded an honorary Pulitzer Prize in 1978. He died in Maine, on October 1, 1985, at the age of eighty-six. Today we ...

  17. White, E. B.

    Essays of E.B. White (1977) Poems and Sketches of E.B. White (1981) Writings from the New Yorker : 1927-1976 (1990) (1899-1985) was an author of essays, poetry, and children's books. Although born in Mount Vernon, New York, Elwynn Brooks White, who spent summers as a child in the Belgrade Lakes region, moved to Brooklin in 1938 with his wife.

  18. How Trains 'Railroaded' The American Economy : NPR

    In Railroaded, Richard White describes how transcontinental rail companies shaped the American economy as they built tracks across the U.S. Above, a Union Pacific Rail Road locomotive, pictured in ...

  19. Railroaded : The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

    Richard White. W.W. Norton & Company, 2011 - History - 660 pages. The transcontinental railroads of the late nineteenth century were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked devastating panics in the U.S. economy. Their dependence on public largess drew them into the corridors of power ...

  20. 10 Great Articles and Essays by E.B. White

    Once More to the Lake. Sometimes in summer there are days when the restlessness of the tides and the fearful cold of the sea water and the incessant wind which blows across the afternoon and into the evening make me wish for the placidity of a lake in the woods….

  21. Missing E. B. White

    Andy. By Roger Angell. February 7, 2005. One morning in Maine: Katharine and E. B. White (and Minnie) in the early fifties. Lately I have been missing my stepfather, Andy White, who keeps excusing ...

  22. the transcontinentals and the making of modern America

    A history of the transcontinental railroads and how they transformed America in the decades after the Civil War. The transcontinental railroads of the late nineteenth century were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked devastating panics in the U.S. economy.

  23. Richard White Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of

    ISBN 978--393-34237-6, $18.95 PB. Review by Kathleen A. Brosnan. In 1862 Abraham Lincoln signed the law that provided extensive land grants and bonds to the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads for the construction of a transcontinental line to secure the American West for the Union. Seven years later, Leland Stanford, the Central ...