ARCHIBALD MACLEISH at sixty-one has compiled a rare total of successful careers, but the true career uniting all his public courses has been as spokesman for the American Dream. Thomas Jefferson has ...

Two classmates from Yale College and Harvard Law School marched together at the 1950 Commencement. Dean Acheson was receiving an honorary degree, and his close "friend, Archibald MacLeish, was the ...

“Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Dos Passos—we all went to Paris” in the 1920s “because it was cheap,” said Archibald MacLeish. “Romance had nothing to do with it.” “Nothing to do with it?” I repeated.

LAND OF THE FREE—Archibald MacLeish—Harcourt, Brace ($3). Some time after the Great Depression, Poet Archibald MacLeish, growing more and more shocked by contemporary U. S. social and economic ...

In the spring of 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had been mulling over the question of who would succeed Herbert Putnam as Librarian of Congress. Dr. Putnam, a scholar, had made the Library ...

Archibald MacLeish, a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who overcame Republican opposition to become librarian of Congress during World War II, was born on this day in 1892 in Glencoe, Illinois.