It began with a teenager's scrawls in a loose-leaf notebook and then became a publishing phenomenon. Edward Robb Ellis' monumental diary has made news in Time magazine and on Good Morning America, the Today show, and NPR's Weekend Edition. Now in paper are the fascinating anecdotes, the firsthand encounters with celebrated men and women and the engaging self-portrait of a uniquely candid man. 35 photos.
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Journalist Ellis, whose diary is cited in the Guinness Book of World Records as America's longest, offers a personal look at many of the definitive moments of the century.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Fantasic. I couldn't put it down!!!,
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This review is from: A Diary of the Century: Tales from America's Greatest Diarist (Paperback)
As Edward Robb Ellis was writing his diary I was being born. I've often wondered what my pre-though, pre-war life was like now I know. Through the eyes of one man who's life mirrored, yet preceded, my own 30 years later. I wonder, in 1998, is ERE still alive. I hope so!!
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THE QUINTESSENTIAL AMERICAN DIARIST OF THE 20th CENTURY,
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This review is from: A Diary of the Century: Tales from America's Greatest Diarist (Paperback)
This book --- which is an abridged version of Edward Robb Ellis' diary (begun as a bet among friends when he was 16 in 1927) --- is FANTASTIC.
Ellis began work as a journalist in the 1930s in New Orleans, "covering Huey Long, Louis Armstrong, as well as the city's hungry workers, and the colorful French Quarter." Later in the decade, Ellis moved on to Oklahoma City, where he covered stories on "the Depression, dust storms, and [First Lady] Eleanor Roosevelt." Then, he went to work for a newspaper in Peoria at the beginning of the Second World War. Ever the journeyman journalist, Ellis moved on to Chicago, where he worked as a features writer for the United Press. Following service in the Navy, Ellis eventually wound up in New York, where he would live and work from 1947 until his death 51 years later. The best part about this diary is that the reader is not only given entree to Ellis' quest for greater understanding of self and environment, as well as his encounters with some of the notable figures of the last century. But also the reader becomes a witness to the profound changes that took place in American social and cultural norms throughout Ellis' long and remarkable life. At turns poignant, passionate, and insightful, "A DIARY OF THE CENTURY" is a delight to read and comes HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
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