READJUSTMENT to civilian life has five million variations, even allowing for a few repetitions, and it would be hard to say that any one case is not typical. MacKinlay Kantor, an old hand at mixing a ...
THE NOISE OF THEIR WINGS—MacKinlay Kantor—Coward-McCann ($2.50). In all ages, men’s imaginations have been stirred by the flight of birds. No more dramatic flights have been recorded than those of the ...
Tom Shroder isn’t being boastful with the title of his latest book, “The Most Famous Writer Who Ever Lived.” It’s not an autobiography. Well, at least not in the traditional sense. Shroder is a main ...
How forgotten is MacKinlay Kantor’s “Diversey”? Well, when I looked it up on the Chicago Public Library website, I found only one copy available systemwide, in the closed stacks of the downtown branch ...
Long before Tom Shroder began researching his family history, he knew that his crotchety grandfather had once been famous. He knew that MacKinlay Kantor had written Andersonville, the Civil War novel ...
SPIRIT LAKE (957 pp.)—MacKin/ay Kantor—World ($6.95). Not altogether inaccurately, MacKinlay Kantor’s 34th book is billed as a “gigantic novel of the American frontier.” Wordier even than ...
WEBSTER CITY, Ia. — Talking to a roomful of Iowans in a small-town library basement about your grandfather’s serial infidelities that hurt your grandmother, or your great-grandfather’s scandalous past ...
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