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Bradford, Gamaliel
Bradford, Gamaliel (1863–1932), Massachusetts author, who at age 50 found his most successful medium when he published Lee, the American (1912). This book employed a method he described as “psychography,” which aims to extract the essential, permanent, and vitally characteristic strands out of the continuous texture of a man's entire life. Applying this subjective, analytical technique, Bradford wrote a great many other sketches, published in such books as Confederate Portraits (1914); Portraits of Women (1916); Union Portraits (1916); American Portraits (1922); Damaged Souls (1923), perhaps his best‐known book, dealing with such Americans as Aaron Burr, P.T. Barnum, John Randolph, and Thomas Paine; Wives (1925); As God Made Them (1929); Daughters of Eve (1930); and The Quick and the Dead (1931). His autobiographical works include A Naturalist of Souls (1917), Life and I (1928), and his Journal (1933), edited by Van Wyck Brooks.
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Bradford, Gamaliel." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Bradford, Gamaliel." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-BradfordGamaliel.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Bradford, Gamaliel." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-BradfordGamaliel.html |
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