The Easy Chair

by Bernard DeVoto

A distillation of a distinguished writer's most entertaining and enlightening commentary on American life. Collects the author's columns from Harper's magazine.

356 pages, Hardcover

About the author

Bernard Augustine DeVoto was an American historian and author who specialized in the history of the American West.

Reviews

[Leland Long · Rating 5 out of 5]

These essays/articles were written in the 40s and 50s, but change the names and it feels eerily as if you were reading about today's events. Politicians, power groups and business people are just as venal, corrupt and nasty as they were then. Maybe even a bit more stupid! it reminds me of the lawyer joke, except it should be changed just a bit, " What do you call 200 republican politicians and followers at the bottom of the ocean? "A good start!"