Author: MacLEISH, Archibald
Title: American Opinion & the War. The Rede Lecture Delivered Before the University of Cambridge on 30 July 1942
Description: Cambridge & New York, The University Press and The Macmillan Company, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial cloth with matching dustwrapper; 32 pages. Small ink mark to front endpaper. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper Archibald MacLeish was not only a well-known poet but also served as Librarian of Congress, appointed by Franklin Roosevelt, a position he used to reorganize and promote the institution. In addition to winning three Pulitzer Prizes, MacLeish was commissioned by the NEW YORK TIMES to write a poem to celebrate the Apollo 11 moon landing, which he entitled "Voyage to the Moon" and which appeared on the front page of the 21 July 1969 edition of the paper.

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