{"product_id":"happy-land-paperback","title":"Happy Land - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMacKinlay Kantor\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMACKINLAY KANTOR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHIS NOVEL WAS THE BASIS FOR THE 1943 FILM\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHAPPY LAND\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hail, Columbia, happy land \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHail, ye heroes, heav'n-born band-\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHappy Land is about Rusty Marsh, and the life he lived. It is about ordinary folks, and how they came to be brave. It is the record of a civilization which strengthens itself with Boy Scouts and bob-rides, with public high schools and neighborly kindnesses, with churches and drug stores and cornfields and Indian stories-with the simple fare of American life which once seemed dull and now holds bewitching beauty. This civilization must not perish from our land or from this earth. It will not perish while one Rusty Marsh is alive to fight for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMacKinlay Kantor was born in Webster City, Iowa, in 1904. He began to write seriously at sixteen, became a newspaper reporter at seventeen, and published his first book at twenty-three. Over the next half-century, he went on to produce more than forty works including novels, short story collections, novels in verse, novellas, histories and children's books. His best-selling historical novel, Andersonville, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1956. MacKinlay Kantor's other accomplishments included Hollywood screenwriting, patrolling the streets with the N.Y.P.D., and combat correspondence (RAF and USAF) in two wars, for which he was awarded the Medal of Freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 102\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.24 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 19, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42683774533695,"sku":"9781628156034","price":19.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/0a08e4a46b08ed25682afea67167ab06.webp?v=1764965116","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/happy-land-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}