Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Reminiscences of Cass Canfield, 1966
Creator: | Canfield, Cass, 1897-1986 | Project: | Individual interviews oral history collection. (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | transcript: 425 pages sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit) | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Scope and ContentsEarly youth, education, New York and abroad; Harvard; graduate study at Oxford, 1920; walked Burma Road, 1920; Harper & Bros. president from 1932; crossing on HINDENBURG, 1936; interview with Leon Trotsky, 1940; Board of Economic Welfare; Office of War Information, 1944; International Planned Parenthood Federation; history of Harper's and comprehensive discussion of publishing; anecdotes about many notable literary and political figures including Edith Wharton, Julian and Aldous Huxley, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson, Sumner Welles, and Jacqueline Kennedy
SubjectsAccess ConditionsCopyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1975
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