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Nombre legal: Daniels, Jonathan Worth
Fecha de nacimiento: 1902-04-26
Fecha de fallecimiento: 1981-11-06
Lugar de sepultura: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA
Género: male
Nacionalidad: USA
Lugar de nacimiento: Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Lugar de fallecimiento: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA
Lugares de residencia: Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Washington, D.C., USA
Educación: Columbia University Law School (degree not completed)
University of North Carolina (MA|English|1921)
University of North Carolina (BA|1921)
St. Albans School
Ocupaciones: Assistant to President Franklin Roosevelt (1943-1945)
White House Press Secretary (1945)
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editor
Relaciones: Daniels, Josephus (father)
Squire, Elizabeth Daniels (daughter)
Organizaciones: The Louisville Times
The United Nations
The News & Observer
The Island Packet (founder)
The Office of the President of the United States

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Stonewall Jackson por Jonathan Daniels

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pszolovits | 2 reseñas más. | Feb 3, 2021 |

Devil's Backbone, The: The Story of the Natchez… por Jonathan Daniels

A history of the Trace from the Natchez Indians to pre-Civil war. A collection of tied together historical tales involving some of the more famous and colorful events and people who made the trail the landmark it still is today.

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dswaddell | 2 reseñas más. | Nov 21, 2016 |

The devil's backbone: the story of the Natchez Trace por Jonathan Daniels

This is history for a popular audience, apparently aimed at tourists on what was then (in 1962) the recently opened Natchez Trace Parkway. The prose is expressive and meant to be entertaining, and for this reason the author takes liberties with the historical facts about the early Natchez Trace. Chapters are mostly organized around an individual, such as Aaron Burr, Meriwether Lewis (shot to death at an inn on the Trace), and the bandit Joseph Thompson Hare. There are no footnotes or bibliography, so the reader is obliged to take the author's word for everything. Daniels has a taste for the lurid. Here and there he evinces a dated concern with "blood" and color.… (más)

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Muscogulus | 2 reseñas más. | Mar 29, 2012 |

Devil's Backbone, The: The Story of the… por Jonathan Daniels

This had to be quite possibly the worst history book I have ever had the displeasure to read. I have come back to it a couple different times thinking perhaps it is just my mood, and not the book. After the third time, it is the book. The writing style is clunky, and does not meet current standards for professional historical writings. If you desire more information about the Mississippi/Natchez area, there are better works out there. Heck, the internet may be a better source than this work!

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greyback | 2 reseñas más. | Aug 31, 2011 |

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