BookRags.com Literature Guides Literature
Guides
Criticism & Essays Criticism &
Essays
Questions & Answers Questions &
Answers
Lesson Plans Lesson
Plans
My Bibliography Periodic Table U.S. Presidents Shakespeare Sonnet Shake-Up
Research Anything:        
History | Encyclopedias | Films | News | Create a Bibliography | More... Login | Register | Help

Search "John McPhee"

 

John McPhee

Print-Friendly
About 78 pages (23,396 words) in 5 products

"John McPhee" Search Results
Contents:
Biography

Name: John (Angus) McPhee
Variant Name: John McPhee, John Angus McPhee, John Angus Mc Phee
Birth Date: March 8, 1931
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

summary from source:
Biography of John (Angus) McPhee
10,304 words, approx. 34 pages
John McPhee's career as a writer began during the 1960s when American nature writing was infused with the social and political urgencies of late-twentieth-century environmentalism. The modern age of environmental activism, ushered in by such writers as...
summary from source:
Biography of John (Angus) McPhee
10,161 words, approx. 34 pages
John McPhee's career as a literary journalist has been tangled with the history of The New Yorker magazine since he became a staff writer in 1965. A list of classic literary journalism in the twentieth century would include several of McPhee's books,...


Quotations
summary from source:
John McPhee Quotes
184 words, approx. 1 pages
John Angus McPhee (born 8 March 1931 ) is an American writer and journalist. Sourced You see the rivers running east. Then you see mountains rise. Rivers run off them to the west. Mountains come up like waves. They crest, break, and spread themselves...


Ask any question on John McPhee and get it answered FAST!
Answer questions in BookRags Q&A and earn points toward
discounted or even FREE Study Guides and other BookRags products!
Learn more about BookRags Q&A
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
summary from source:
John McPhee Information
2,635 words, approx. 9 pages
John Angus McPhee (born March 8, 1931) is a writer widely considered one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction. Like Tom Wolfe and Hunter Thompson, he helped kick-start the "new journalism" which, in the 1960s, revolutionized nonfiction by...


News and Journals
summary from source:

Defense Transportation Journal
The works of John McPhee.(Bookshelf Ideas)
06/01/2006: 365 words, approx. 1 pages
For all of you that truly love transportation, you need to get into the writing of John McPhee. His list of publications across a myriad of subjects (not just transportation) spans decades, but it is his interest in freight transport (and the people...
summary from source:

The Boston Globe
John Mcphee Trolls The World, Lands A Shad
12/11/2002: 2,027 words, approx. 7 pages
[A PUBLISHED CORRECTION HAS BEEN ADDED TO THIS STORY.] PRINCETON, N.J. - John McPhee shakes his head and grins. "People say to me, 'Oh, you're so prolific.' God, it doesn't feel like it - nothing like it. But, you know, you put an ounce...
summary from source:

The New York Observer
How It Gets There From Here\'d1 With McPhee Riding Shotgun
5/28/2006: 958 words, approx. 3 pages
We consume. We rarely think of how food or energy is created or how it gets to where we purchase it. We may see a truck, but we rarely think about large ships or the trains that deliver America’s new old favorite energy “alternative”—coal. I...
summary from source:

The New York Observer
How It Gets There From Here- With McPhee Riding Shotgun
5/28/2006: 959 words, approx. 3 pages
We consume. We rarely think of how food or energy is created or how it gets to where we purchase it. We may see a truck, but we rarely think about large ships or the trains that deliver America’s new old favorite energy “alternative”—coal. I...
 


John McPhee Study Pack

Get the complete John McPhee Study Pack, which includes everything on this page. Approximately 78 pages (at 300 words per page) in 4 products.

 Please Note: Study Pack does not include any HighBeam content.

This Study Pack Contains:
2 Biographies
1 Encyclopedia Article
Multiple Formats Available:

· online web format
· "print-friendly" format
· downloadable PDF format
· downloadable Word/RTF format
Available Immediately Online
 

John McPhee

Print-Friendly
About 78 pages (23,396 words) in 5 products




Join BookRagslearn moreJoin BookRags


About BookRags | Customer Service | Report an Error | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy |