Witness To A Century

Description for WITNESS TO A CENTURY: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE NOTED, THE NOTORIOUS, AND THE THREE SOB's by George Seldes: Ninety-six years of anyone's life would surely yield some good stories, but when that life is George Seldes's , the stories are the history of the twentieth century. One of the great, tireless journalists of all time, George Sledes was always present alongside the movers and shakers who made history. Trotsky, Isadora Duncan, Albert Einstein, Freud, Lenin, William Jennings Bryan, Emma Goldman, Bernard Shaw, Theodore Roosevelt, J Edgar Hoover, Tito, Mussolini, George Seldes knew them, interviewed them, corresponded with them, argued with them and broke bread with them. And, in WITNESS TO A CENTURY we meet them and many others as Seldes leads us on a fascinating journey through the turbulent decades that changed the world. WITNESS TO A CENTURY is a book full of surprises. Here we see William Jennings Bryan in his hotel room, discussing his presidential plans,