Description
| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Basbanes collection copy contains a handwritten letter from the author, is inscribed to Nicholas Basbanes by the author, and is part of the Nicholas A. Basbanes Collection of Inscribed Books. Geneaological table on lining papers. |
| Physical Description: | 445 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Awards: | National Book Award for Autobiography/biography (hardcover), 1982 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-424) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0671227114 |