John Gunther
Born: 1901 in Chicago, Illinois
Died: May 20, 1970 in New York Pen Name: None Connection to Illinois: Gunther was born on the Northe Side of Chicago. He attended Lake View High School and received his PhD from the University of Chicago. Biography: John Gunther was a popular journalist, network radio commentator, correspondent, lecturer and author. He was a world traveler and observer. Gunther was active from the 1920's until shortly before he died. His success came primarily in the 1940s and 1950s with a series of popular sociopolitical works known as the 'Inside' books. He was a contributor to more than thirty magazines, including: ''Harper's'', ''Reader's Digest'' and ''Look''. He was the editor of the ''Mainstream of Modern World History'' series for Doubleday.
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John Gunther on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=john+gunther
Selected Titles
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Alexander the Great ISBN: 9781402741395 OCLC: 71842645 Sterling, New York, NY : ©2007. A biography of one of history's greatest conquerors. |
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Death be not proud : ISBN: 0061230979 OCLC: 123018628 "Johnny Gunther was only seventeen years old when he died of a brain tumor. During the months of his illness, everyone near him was unforgettably impressed by his level-headed courage, his wit and quiet friendliness, and, above all, his unfaltering patience through times of despair. This deeply moving book is a father's memoir of a brave, intelligent, and spirited boy."--Back cover. |
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Enclosing the past : ISBN: 9780906090534 OCLC: 85504112 J.R. Collis, Sheffield : 2006. The practice of creating an enclosure was a phenomenon that occurred at many times and in many places of the prehistoric past. This volume sets out to explore the variability of enclosures ... and aims to explore possible reasons for enclosing rather than technical aspects of creating enclosures. |
| Inside Africa. ISBN: 0836981979 OCLC: 3255912 Books for Libraries Press Plainview, N.Y., [1974, ©1955] |
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Inside Asia. ISBN: 0837178258 OCLC: 1852846 Greenwood Press Westport, Conn., [1974, ©1942] |
| Inside Australia and New Zealand ISBN: 0340182997 OCLC: 2317647 Coronet Books, London : 1974. |
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Inside Latin America ISBN: 0837179084 OCLC: 2555857 Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn. : 1975, ©1941. |
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Inside U.S.A. ISBN: 1565843584 OCLC: 36729302 New Press, New York : 1997. John Gunther's 'Inside' series were among the most popular books of reportage in the 1930s and 1940s. For 'Inside U.S.A., ' Gunther set out from California and traveled the entire country. His frank, lucid observations along the way -- on race relations, labor, the Tennessee Valley Authority, farm life, the politics of the big cities, and much else -- yield fascinating insight into life fifty years ago. Now on the brink of the millennium, this fiftieth anniversary edition of 'Inside U.S.A.' provides an invaluable picture of America as it was then, both for those old enough to remember it and for young people who may be astonished to see the ways the country has changed. |
| Líderes del siglo XX ISBN: 842530184X OCLC: 5438734 Ediciones Grijalbo, Barcelona : 1974. |
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| Mapping the Broad Field of Multicultural and Intercultural Education Worldwide : ISBN: 9781443840316 OCLC: 903053151 Cambridge Scholars Pub, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : 2012. The issues which are discussed in the 29 chapters of this volume address core matters with respect to modern diverse societies. The most important relate to the following: the societal needs of migrant populations and the educational needs of their children; the exclusivist policies which usually impact upon migrant groups; the need to enrich school texts and curricula with new intercultural and citizenship dimensions; the importance of integrating the notion of Paideia within the school etho ... |
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Morality and moral controversies ISBN: 0139141286 OCLC: 39505567 Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J. : ©1999. |
| Pipelines 2004 : ISBN: 0784407452 OCLC: 65184355 American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, Va. : ©2004. Presents papers on assessment of piplines, rehabilitation projects, renewel of the infrastructure and waste water pipelines. |
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| Quatrain: ISBN: 0241019176 OCLC: 162514 Hamilton, London, 1970. |
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| Regional dynamics in a decentralized Indonesia ISBN: 9789814519175 OCLC: 892575992 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore : 2014. |
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| Taken at the flood. ISBN: 0899667295 OCLC: 948426874 Buccaneer Books, [Place of publication not identified] : 1990. |
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The ecumenical legacy of Johannes Cardinal Willebrands (1909-2006) ISBN: 9789042927353 OCLC: 820786708 Peeters, Leuven ; 2012. |
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The spirit of American law ISBN: 0813367824 OCLC: 42435085 Westview Press, Boulder, Colo. : 2000. |