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AMBROSE BIERCE: A SOLE SURVIVOR, BITS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY.(Review)

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From: Columbia Journalism Review
Date: 19990301
Author:Boylan, James

EDITED BY S.T. JOSHI AND DAVID E. SCHULTZ. THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE PRESS. 356 PP. $38.

Joshi and Schultz, free-lance editors, have scoured manuscript repositories and libraries across the country to create the autobiography that Ambrose Bierce neglected to write. Why Bierce? Because he is the best of the old breed of untamed journalists, contentious, aggressive, even reckless. He is remembered today primarily for his sardonic Devil's Dictionary, for the quatrain he wrote predicting the assassination of President McKinley (which, as Bierce explained, was meant as a ...

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