The Portugal Story - by John Roderigo Dos Passos (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This selective history of Portugal reflects the author's fascination with his own Portuguese/Madeiran heritage. The work tracks the nation's rise and fall as a world power, drawing from the author's travels and archival research. <p/> "Dos Passos," writes historian J. H. Plumb, "brings to his material a novelist's acute eye for human character and a narrative skill that any historian might envy; and he has produced one of the most readable books on the subject that I know."<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>John Dos Passos </b>(1896-1970) was born in Chicago and graduated from Harvard in 1916. His service as an ambulance driver in Europe at the end of World War I led him to write <i>Three Soldiers</i> in 1919. A prolific travel writer, biographer, playwright, and novelist, he is an American classic of the twentieth century. Dos Passos is the author of <i>Manhattan Transfer, Three Soldiers, 1919, </i>and many more.
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