John Fiske (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Biography & Memoir, Historical
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Author: Thomas Sargeant Perry ISBN: 9781411454897
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Publication: May 31, 2011
Imprint: Barnes & Noble Language: English
Author: Thomas Sargeant Perry
ISBN: 9781411454897
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Publication: May 31, 2011
Imprint: Barnes & Noble
Language: English

This 1905 publication is an informative biography of American philosopher and historian John Fiske. Perry, who was a contemporary of Fiske’s at Harvard, gives an insider’s view of life at the institution during the Civil War. Perry opens his narrative, “The life of a man of letters is like a voyage: that is the most successful in which the least happens.”  The author asserts that the life of John Fiske has its own place within history, and is a story from which lessons can be learned.

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This 1905 publication is an informative biography of American philosopher and historian John Fiske. Perry, who was a contemporary of Fiske’s at Harvard, gives an insider’s view of life at the institution during the Civil War. Perry opens his narrative, “The life of a man of letters is like a voyage: that is the most successful in which the least happens.”  The author asserts that the life of John Fiske has its own place within history, and is a story from which lessons can be learned.

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