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Mar 01, 1995 | ISBN 9780385513630 Buy
Mar 02, 2011 | ISBN 9780307787064 Buy
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Mar 01, 1995 | ISBN 9780385513630
Mar 02, 2011 | ISBN 9780307787064
This selective history of Portugal reflects the author’s fascination with his own Portuguese/Madeiran heritage. The work tracks the nation’s rise and fall as a world power, drawing from the author’s travels and archival research. “Dos Passos,” writes historian J. H. Plumb, “brings to his material a novelist’s acute eye for human character and a narrative skill that any historian might envy; and he has produced one of the most readable books on the subject that I know.”
John Dos Passos (1896–1970) was born in Chicago and graduated from Harvard in 1916. His service as an ambulance driver in Europe at the end of World War I led him to write Three Soldiers in 1919. A prolific travel writer, biographer, playwright,… More about John Dos Passos
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