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Lacey, Patricia, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1955-1968

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Open book Lacey, Patricia, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1955-1968

Title Lacey, Patricia, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1955-1968

Creator Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

Date 1955-1968

Language English

Subjects New Left

Format Correspondence

User-Contributed Transcription by the middle of the story, I rode past my station on the way to work reading it one morning. underlined: That is a good book. The detailed descriptions of methods, processes etc. involved in manufacture, and other phases of your story, give it a careful, thorough character of very real interest. You do reach out and grab the reader; my daughter says this is called "instant rapport". The episodes dealing with the strikes fill in for me what were merely headlines once, as I was a child during the Depression years, and knew it's [sic] other equally devastating aspects. Son, Dave, found the book rich with the lore of those years and the particular problems of your particular characters confined in the strictures of the times. Still, the recent mine disaster and subsequent report makes you wonder if

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Archival Collection Title Jack Conroy papers

Link to Catalog View finding aid | View record

Call Number Midwest MS Conroy Box 16 Folder 844

BibID nan

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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File Created 10/14/2021

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Unique Identifier NL19WZ4

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