Author: | Janice E. Haslam,Gerald W. Haslam |
ISBN13: | 978-0803237643 |
Title: | In Thought and Action: The Enigmatic Life of S. I. Hayakawa |
Format: | doc mbr rtf azw |
ePUB size: | 1113 kb |
FB2 size: | 1642 kb |
DJVU size: | 1869 kb |
Language: | English |
Category: | Americas |
Publisher: | Bison Books (November 1, 2011) |
Pages: | 472 |
Haslam, Gerald W. Publication, Distribution, et. Lincoln Hayakawa had hoped to use this soapbox to address the assembled demonstrators, but instead he ended up ripping out speaker wires and halting an illegal campus demonstration or denying first-amendment rights to the crowd, depending on your perspective. Indeed, Hayakawa's entire life defies simplistic labels, and his ability to be categorized largely depends on personal perspective. This intimate and detailed biography draws on interviews with friends and family members, as well as Hayakawa's own papers and journals, to bring this controversial and fascinating figure to life
By Gerald W. Haslam with Janice E. Haslam. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011. Gerald Haslam is entering his fifth decade of publishing novels, essays, stories, monographs, and anthologies as the primary interpreter of California in the context of the American West. In book-length studies and collections like Workin’ Man Blues: Country Music in California (1999) and Haslam’s Valley (2005), he has brought to national awareness the distinctiveness of California’s Great Central Valley as California’s Heartland and The Other California. In Haslam’s words, Hayakawa was a typical boy of the Canadian prairie, and, in Hayakawa’s own words, he was already determined to be a writer, although he pursued a PhD in English, in case, he said, I couldn’t make a living as a poet (18, 29, 37).
Janice E. Haslam is the coauthor, with Gerald W. Haslam, of the fiction collection Manuel and the Madman and An Instructor's Guide to Many Californias. In Thought and Action: The Enigmatic Life of S. I. Hayakawa traces the fascinating life of an iconic American writer, teacher, politician, and family man. In the process, authors Gerald W. Haslam and Janice E. Haslam tell us a lot about the culture wars of the 20th century-and of American identity itself. Discussing both Hayakawa's virtues and his defects, the book is thorough, readable, and sympathetic. J. Rorabaugh, Journal of American History. Haslam and his wife, Janice, have done a brilliant job in this timely biography. -Jud Snyder, Community Voice. An ingenious portrait. -Greg Robinson, Nichi Rei. Table of Contents.
Jacqueline Rudig (Treasurer, Institute of General Semantics) presents the 2013 Hayakawa Book Prize on behalf of the Trustees for the Institute of General Semantics to Gerald W. and Janice E. Haslam for their book "In Thought and Action: The Enigmatic Life of S. Hayakawa. Presented at the 61st Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture & 2-Day General Semantics Symposium, sponsored by the Institute of General Semantics at the Princeton Club in New York City, Friday, October 25, 2013.
In Thought and Action: The Enigmatic Life of S. Hayakawa Gerald W. Haslam, Janice E. Haslam One of the most gripping images from the 1960s captures the slight figure of Dr. S. Hayakawa scrambling onto a sound truck parked in front of San Francisco State College amid campus unrest. Hayakawa had hoped to use this soapbox to address the assembled demonstrators, but instead he ended up ripping out speaker wires and halting an illegal campus demonstration-or denying first-amendment rights to the crowd, depending on your perspective
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In thought and action. The Enigmatic Life of . by Gerald W. Haslam (English Emeritus/Sonoma State Univ. Workin’ Man Blues: Country Music in California, 1999, et., a student and colleague of his subject’s, admits that while he thought much of the left’s criticism of Hayakawa was unfair, he and the senator drifted apart politically as well as professionally. Nevertheless, the book is a promise kept to Hayakawa’s wife. Haslam (with his own wife as partner) was a good choice for biographer. He clearly admired his subject but is fair (though discreet) about his flaws, including a reputation for philandering.
With his wife Janice E. Haslam, Haslam examined the life of Senator S. Hayakawa (In Thought and Action: The Enigmatic Life of S. Hayakawa) and the life of a Depression migrant (Leon Patterson: A California Story). the Heartland's Voice," The Californians, Ja. Feb Personal life. They reside in Penngrove, California
Gerald William Haslam (born March 18, 1937) is an author who has focused on rural and small towns in California's Great Central Valley including its poor and working class people of all colors. A native of Oildale, California, Haslam has received numerous literary awards. Most recently in a pair of biographies he and wife Janice E. Haslam have examined the life of Senator S.