Books Details
Author : Wilbur Lucius Cross Pages : 504 pages Publisher : City Point Press
Language : ISBN-10 : 1947951165 ISBN-13 : 9781947951167
Books Descriptions
Equal parts nostalgic, witty, self-serving, and frank, Connecticut Yankee is
an entertaining and informative memoir of the state and a scholar who
shaped it. Connecticut native, Yale graduate, Yale professor and dean, and
finally, unlikely Governor of the State of Connecticut during the crucial
Depression years, Wilbur L. Cross?s autobiography tells a great American
story.As a Yale professor, a writer, and an editor, Wilbur L. Cross devoted
himself to the English language, and specifically to understanding how
novels were capable of capturing the human condition. His
autobiography,?Connecticut Yankee is?in many ways?a novel itself. The
protagonist is Cross and the plot is his education.? Wilbur Lucius Cross
was a most unlikely politician. A noted author and literary critic who had
been a professor of English, editor of the Yale Review, and finally, Dean of
the Yale Graduate School, his quiet character and almost poetic oration
would seem at odds with the cut-throat world of state
