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An American Knight

Irwin, Will | January 15, 1930 issue

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The article critically appraises the book "The Book of Arthur Gleason. My People," by Arthur Gleason; and "A.G.: An Appreciation," by Helen Hayes Gleason. It represents the man infinitely better than a complete, proportionate work all neated up about the edges. Seventy-five pages of his essays and private writings, varying between mere chips from his literary workshop to pages of astonishing beauty, completeness, and meaning; a hundred and fifty pages of scattered but vital reminiscence by Gleason; the book has no conscious pattern. But it depicts him as no biography, novelized after the modern plan, could possibly do. It has not been necessary to prune episodes and incidents to fit a plot of action or character, to prove a thesis.

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BOOKS & reading; BOOK of Arthur Gleason. My People, The (Book); A. G.: An Appreciation (Book); GLEASON, Arthur; HAYES, Helen, 1900-1993; BIOGRAPHY

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H.L. Mencken, "An Eminent American," July 11, 1923.

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