Biography EssayPearl S. Buck's genius as a writer lay in her ability to portray her characters in a universal manner; their joys, sorrows, problems, and disillusionments transcend cultural barriers to...
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Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892-1973), an American Nobel Prize-winning novelist, dedicated her books and her personal activities to the improvement of relations between Americans and Asians.Pearl Syden...
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"One pays the price for being prolific," bestselling author Pearl S. Buck once told an interviewer. "Heaven knows the literary Establishment can't forgive me for it, nor for the fact that my books sel...
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Pearl Sydenstricker Buck was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, while her parents were on furlough from their missionary work in China. Taken to the Orient during infancy, Buck grew up among Chinese f...
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Pearl Buck 's genius as a writer lay in her ability to portray her characters in a universal manner; their joys, sorrows, problems, and disillusionments transcend cultural barriers to become understan...
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Teaching A House Divided
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Politics: Not every Democrat concedes that the surge is working. In her radio response to President Bush, a member of the opposing party tells us what she did on her summer vacation.Illinois Rep. J...
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House debate over the Iraq war did more than pit Democrat against Republican. It pitted ghosts of the past against each other.Historical figures, some long gone, were invoked in the debate Tuesday....
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On one side: Abe Lincoln, Davy Crockett, poet Robert Frost. On the other: Winston Churchill, Dwight Eisenhower, Martin Luther King Jr.The House debate on the Iraq war has a ghostly quality as lawma...
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Today is Saturday, June 16, the 167th day of 2007. There are 198 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On June 16, 1858, in a speech in Springfield, Ill., Senate candidate Abraham Linc...
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other potential independent presidential candidates are joining prominent Republican and Democratic centrists at a meeting that will consider the merits of a th...
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It's edging toward the end of another long night of election coverage, and Tim Russert appears weary. "Four candidates in the most dangerously regional and divisive election in American history," h...
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A bit of inspirational vision from Thomas Jefferson. A dose of national supremacy from James Monroe. Theodore Roosevelt's bully pulpit, Ronald Reagan's folksy charm and Bill Clinton's empathy. Add ...
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Barack Obama announced his bid for president Saturday, a black man evoking Abraham Lincoln's ability to unite a nation and a Democrat portraying himself as a fresh face capable of leading a new gen...
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Barack Obama announced his bid for president Saturday, a black man evoking Abraham Lincoln's ability to unite a nation and a Democrat portraying himself as a fresh face capable of leading a new gen...
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Barack Obama announced his bid for president Saturday, a black man evoking Abraham Lincoln's ability to unite a nation and a Democrat portraying himself as a fresh face capable of leading a new gen...
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Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S(ydenstricker) Buck
A House Divided Against Itself
