Douglas brinkley rosa parks biography

Jack Kerouac is best known through the image he put forth in autobiographical novels. Yet only his private journals, in which he catalogued his innermost feelings, that reveal to us the real Kerouac —his true, honest deep philosophical self.
In Windblown World, distinguished historian Douglas Brinkley has gathered together a selection of journal entries from the most pivotal period of Kerouac’s intrepid life, beginning in 1947 when he was twenty-five years old and ending in 1954. Truly a self-portrait of the artist as a young man, these journals show a sensitive soul charting his own progress as a writer and responding to his most important literary forebears, which include Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Spengler, Joyce, Twain, and Thomas Wolfe. Here is Kerouac as a hungry young writer struggling to perfect and finish his first novel, The Town and the City, while forging crucial friendships with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. The Journals go on to tell of t