Larry Tye
Teoksen Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend tekijä
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Larry Tye is a medical writer at The Boston Globe where he has won numerous awards for his work. He has been a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and is the author of The Father of Spin, a biography of public relations pioneer Edward L. Bernays. His latest biography is called Satchel: The Life and näytä lisää Times of an American Legend. (Publisher Provided) näytä vähemmän
Image credit: By Photographer: Subject's wife, who prefers to go nameless / copyright holder: Larry Tye - Larry Tye, email, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20718960
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