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On Democracy

On Democracy( )
Author: White, E. B.
Foreword by: Meacham, Jon
ISBN:978-0-06-291206-0
Publication Date:May 2019
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:Harper Large Print
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $26.99
Book Description:

A New York Times Book Review New & Noteworthy Title

A collection of essays, letters and poems from E.B. White, "one of the country's great literary treasures" (New York Times), centered on the subject of freedom and democracy in America.

"I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear."

These words were written by E. B. White in 1947.

Decades before our current political turmoil, White crafted eloquent yet practical political statements...
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Book Details
Pages:272
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / General
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Democracy
History / United States / 20Th Century
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 0.61 Inches
Book Weight:0.556 Pounds
Author Biography
White, E. B. (Author)
Born in Mount Vernon, New York, E. B. White was educated at Cornell University and served as a private in World War I. After several years as a journalist, he joined the staff of the New Yorker, then in its infancy. For 11 years he wrote most of the "Talk of the Town" columns, and it was White and James Thurber who can be credited with setting the style and attitude of the magazine. In 1938 he retired to a saltwater farm in Maine, where he wrote essays regularly for Harper's Magazine under the title "One Man's Meat." Like Thoreau, White preferred the woods; he also resembled Thoreau in his impatience and indignation.

White received several prizes: in 1960, the gold medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in 1963, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award (he was honored along with Thornton Wilder and Edmund Wilson); and in 1978, a special Pulitzer Prize. His verse is original and witty but with serious undertones. His friend James Thurber described him as "a poet who loves to live half-hidden from the eye." Three of his books have become children's classics: Stuart Little (1945), about a mouse born into a human family, Charlotte's Web (1952), about a spider who befriends a lonely pig, and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970). Among his best-known and most widely used books is The Elements of Style (1959), a guide to grammar and rhetoric based on a text written by one of his professors at Cornell, William Strunk, which White revised and expanded. White was married to Katherine Angell, the first fiction editor of the New Yorker.

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