Titlebook: Van Loon; Popular Historian, J Cornelis A. Minnen Book 2005 Cornelis A. van Minnen 2005 20. Jahrhundert.20th century.Herbert Hoover.liberty

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Book 2005ted States‘. One of FDR‘s true and closest friends, van Loon emigrated from the Netherlands to the United States at age 20, in 1902. Working as a historian, journalist, illustrator, and radio commentator, van Loon immersed himself in American cultural life from the 1920s through the ‘40s, until his

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Prologueotographers and “flashlights were popping like opening night at the Met” and the atmosphere was almost merry as people were telling each other van Loon anecdotes. She thought that instead of a funeral service for van Loon in this tiny church, “the Colosseum would have been a more appropriate place.”

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A Troubled Youth In Holland (1882–1902)uld become superfluous, and I have no intention whatsoever of resigning, at least not for a good many eternities to come.” And so van Loon tried to understand the past in his own way and a number of times in his life—regularly confessed in his correspondence—ound it hard not “to play Jehovah.”

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The Veere Paradise (1928–1931), Alice had “just the necessary combination of worldliness, clinical detachment, and humor to make her one of the chosen few whom Hendrik needed more than they needed him.” And in the next seven years he sent her an avalanche of letters expressing his inner feelings to this woman for whom he had a deep respect..

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