Peter Stansky, historian and writer, in conversation: George Orwell and the Spanish Civil War.
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2014-01-24
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Burrowes, Darryl
Stansky, Peter
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Peter Stansky is an eminent Emeritus Professor of History, specialising in Modern British History, who has been at Stanford University since 1968. I sought him out for his expertise on Orwell while researching at the Hoover Institute on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University in April 2013. I was aware that Stansky had written two books on Orwell, in collaboration with William Abrahams, The Unknown Orwell in 1972 and Orwell: The Transformation in 1979. This conversation focuses on Orwell and his role in Spain and deals with some of the issues faced by Stansky and Abrahams in writing their Orwell books. The conversation also includes references to three historians who are pivotal in my thesis - Paul Preston, Burnett Bolloten and George Esenwein.
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Writers in Conversation, Interviews, Peter Stansky, Politics, Biography, History, Spanish Civil War, George Orwell