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JFK Library archives bring unknown facets of Ernest Hemingway to life in new documentary
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Last Updated: Apr 06, 2021, 07:27 PM IST
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In this July 1934 photo provided by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation from the Ernest Hemingway Collection, Ernest Hemingway poses with a marlin at Havana Harbor, in Key West, Fla.
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BOSTON: A new Ken Burns documentary on Ernest Hemingway powered by vast but little-known archives kept at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston is shedding new light on the acclaimed novelist. Hemingway , premiering on PBS on three consecutive nights starting April 5, takes a more nuanced look at the author and his longstanding reputation as an alcoholic, adventurer, outdoorsman and bullfight-loving misogynist who struggled with internal turmoil that eventually led to his death by suicide at age 61.
A new three-part documentary about Hemingway debuts on Monday, April 5
The documentary relied heavily on the archives at the JFK Presidential Library and Museum in Boston
The six-hour doc examines the visionary work and the turbulent life of one of the greatest and most influential writers America has ever produced
Complete with short stories, novels, and non-fiction, the series reveals the brilliant, ambitious, charismatic, and complicated man behind the myth
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The transformation of Asia from its status as the most impoverished region to the growth locomotive of the world economy within five decades is unprecedented and nothing short of a miracle. The achievement seems all the more profound when juxtaposed with a very pessimistic outlook of Asia’s development prospects made by Gunnar Myrdal in his three-volume tome
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