Title

Maverick's progress : an autobiography

Description

Autobiography of historian and art critic, James T. Flexner.

Identifier

613596

823216608

Creator

Flexner, James Thomas

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

1996

Program air date: June 2, 1996

Publisher

Fordham University Press

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Subject

"Flexner, James Thomas, 1908-2003."

"Historians--United States--Biography."

"Art historians--United States--Biography."

"Biographers--United States--Biography."

"Biography as a literary form."

"Authorship."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

Rights

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Transcriptions of Annotations
Notes on front endpaper: Aunt Cary-Pres. Bryn Mawr. Bertrand Russell relative. Anxiety neurosis--not want to travel. Has no PHD-has this hurt. Robert Frost came to our class. Harvard, Herald Tribune. Cousin--Catherine Drinker Bowen. Autobiography-p. 351. Notes on back endpaper: 1996 Apr 30 1908--88. On the Books by James Thomas Flexner page, Lamb numbers the 27 titles and underlines 5 of them Underlinings/Notes: Underlinings: Lamb underlines details about Flexner's family, early life, physical description, Flexner's influence on reactions to Hudson River School, poets whom Flexner heard, places visited in Europe, early career, encounters with women, health, marriage, divorce, subjects of Flexner's books. Notes: "No boasting," "no women in class," "Magna," "novelist," "a raise," "stomach trouble," "no Lucille for 50 years," "Mari," "General von Blomberg," "Charles Ives," "Edie suicide," "Rhys Caparn," "Duranty," "Catherine Drinker Bowen--Kitty," "Rhys married," "I'm insane [...]nervous breakdown," "Marriage and 'my traumas'," "1939 married 31," "East 60s," "Yale Library," "Dr. Rennie, 50/40 min. sessions," "MGM," "Con. Gov. Wil Cross, stolen cat," "Agnes [...]heavy drinking set in New Haven," "destroy my reputation forever," "Carl Van Doren," "Van Doren," "Aaron Burr," "John Paul Jones," "Sir William Johnson," "no popularizes," "the jacket," "1962 to 1976 WAH. 54 to 68," "distortion in arts biography," "agnostic," "Lincoln," "Jefferson," "Freeman [...] personal run-in," "quotations v. opinions," "quotations v. opinions," "pumpkin head," "stayed in mansion," "6th grade education," "7 Years War," "slavery," "weakness and strengths," "the Pulitzer," "one of the greatest men in all history," "1974 1 million copies," "source materials 120 pages," "jerkwater colleges," "Sally Fairfax," "anxiety neurosis," "5 most important characteristics," "Calf teachers objections," "Apr 8, 1984," "ratings respectable."