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A Late Education, Episodes in Life by Alan Moorehead, 1970 First U.S. Edition, Plus BONUS BONUS BONUS

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A Late Education, Episodes in Life by Alan Moorehead, 1970 First U.S. Edition, Plus BONUS BONUS BONUS A Late Education, Episodes in Life by Alan Moorehead, 1970 First U.S. Edition, Plus BONUS BONUS BONUS A Late Education, Episodes in Life by Alan Moorehead, 1970 First U.S. Edition, Plus BONUS BONUS BONUS A Late Education, Episodes in Life by Alan Moorehead, 1970 First U.S. Edition, Plus BONUS BONUS BONUS
A Late Education, Episodes in Life by Alan Moorehead, 1970 First U.S. Edition, Plus BONUS BONUS BONUS A Late Education, Episodes in Life by Alan Moorehead, 1970 First U.S. Edition, Plus BONUS BONUS BONUS A Late Education, Episodes in Life by Alan Moorehead, 1970 First U.S. Edition, Plus BONUS BONUS BONUS

SYNOPSIS:  175 pages. From Wikipedia: "Alan Moorehead was born in Melbourne, Australia. He was educated at Scotch College, with a BA from Melbourne University. He travelled to England in 1937 and became a renowned foreign correspondent for the London Daily Express. Writer, world traveller, biographer, essayist, journalist, Moorehead was one of the most successful writers in English of his day. He married Lucy Milner, who at the Daily Express in 1937 "presided over a women's page free of the patronising sentimentality which marked much writing for women at the time".

During World War II he won an international reputation for his coverage of campaigns in the Middle East and Asia, the Mediterranean and Northwest Europe. He was twice mentioned in dispatches and was awarded the OBE. According to the critic Clive James, "Moorehead was there for the battles and the conferences through North Africa, Italy and Normandy all the way to the end. The hefty but unputdownable African Trilogy, still in print today, is perhaps the best example of Moorehead's characteristic virtue as a war correspondent: he could widen the local story to include its global implications."  And James further affirmed, "His copy was world-famous at the time and has stayed good; he was a far better reporter on combat than his friend Ernest Hemingway." Moorehead's 1946 biography of Montgomery also remains well considered – "Moorehead was well able to see – as Wilmot calamitously didn't – that Eisenhower was Montgomery's superior in character and judgment."

In 1956, his book Gallipoli about the Allies' disastrous World War I campaign at Gallipoli, received almost unprecedented critical acclaim (though it was later criticised by the British Gallipoli historian Robert Rhodes James as "deeply flawed and grievously over-praised"). In England, the book won the Sunday Times thousand-pound award and gold medal was the first recipient of the Duff Cooper Memorial Award. The presentation of the latter was made by Sir Winston Churchill on 28 November 1956.

In 1966, Moorehead and his wife, younger son and daughter (Caroline Moorehead) made what became for him the first of an annual series of visits to Australia. There he had completed a television script for his manuscript "Darwin and the Beagle", but tragedy struck before the book was published. That December, suffering from headaches, he went into London's Westminster Hospital for an angiogram which precipitated a major stroke. It was followed by an operation, in which brain damage occurred, affecting the communicating nerves. At 56, Moorehead, one of the great communicators of his time, could neither speak, read, nor write.

Through his talented wife Lucy, however, his writing voice went on. Darwin and the Beagle was brought out as a beautifully illustrated book in 1969 and in 1972, she gathered together her husband's scattered autobiographical essays and published them as A Late Education. Moorehead died in London in 1983, and is buried at Hampstead Cemetery, Fortune Green."

Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers. New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London. Stated First U.S. Edition.

Format: Hardback. No dust jacket. NOT an EX LIB.

Condition: Volume itself in Acceptable condition. Black cloth boards with red spine quarter panel. All pages intact, volume tightly bound. But now...the BONUS part. The previous owner may have been a journalist him/herself because dozens of the stories / articles written of by Moorehead are accompanied by personally clipped and pasted in articles about the issue. Photography tape was used so they peel loose easily, and he/she never covered any of the text. I have included pics of many of those clippings, but there is no way I could include all of them. The very back of the book has a couple that were merely laid-in. Some of the article clippings are in English, others are in German or other languages I don't personally recognize. The clippings themselves date back to the era Moorehead discussed in this 1970 book, so the clippings actually pre-date the book! On page 176, there is a pasted in REAL PHOTO of Moorehead and Alex Clifford, which is the same photo used to be published onto the page opposite the title page of the book. It really makes one wonder who the previous owner of this volume may have been to have access to all these relevant articles, clippings, and that real photo. This is such a fascinating collectible!

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