Anything Your Little Heart Desires: An American Family Story - Hardcover

Bosworth, Patricia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684808099 ISBN 13: 9780684808093

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1997

Synopsis

An intimate and tragic portrait of Bartley Crum, a prominent activist lawyer of the 1930s and 1940s, who fell victim to McCarthyism and committed suicide during that era, comes to life in the words of his daughter, a well-known biographer. 25,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

The author profiles her relatives with the same sensitivity she brought to biographies of Montgomery Clift and Diane Arbus. She pays tribute to the liberal idealism that led her father, Bartley C. Crum, to defend unpopular leftists at home and Jewish refugees desperate to get into Palestine abroad, even as she depicts his lengthy absences and financial carelessness wreaking havoc on his wife and children. Patricia Bosworth's portraits of her unhappy, adulterous mother and withdrawn, suicidal brother are equally nuanced. The subtitle says it all: "An American Family Story."

About the Author:

Patricia Bosworth has taught graduate courses in nonfiction writing at Columbia University's School of the Arts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0684808099
• ISBN 13: 9780684808093
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416