- Title
- Poetry, Prose, and Politics
- Author/Creator
- Joseph A. Esposito
- Publication Details
- Dinner in Camelot: The Night America's Greatest Scientists, Writers, and Scholars Partied at the Kennedy White House, pp.50-65
- Annotation
- Recounts the 1962 Nobel Prize dinner at the White House, honoring artists, scientists, and others, including Hemingway. In describing Mary Hemingway and other guests seated at the president's table, Esposito sums up the era's cultural, social, and political currents. Covers Kennedy's and Hemingway's shared admiration of each other's work, Kennedy's intervention on Mary's behalf to collect her late husband's papers in Cuba, and Mary's uncomfortable conversation with the president regarding his Cuban policy.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015130704803691
Book chapter
Poetry, Prose, and Politics
Dinner in Camelot: The Night America's Greatest Scientists, Writers, and Scholars Partied at the Kennedy White House, pp.50-65
2018
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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