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Charles Ives and His America

Frank R. Rossiter

Ive s life (1874-1954) presents a remarkable set of paradoxes. He was a businessman whose spare-time composing was done in nearly total obscurity during the early years of the twentieth century; yet after his death, he came to be widely recognized as America s greatest composer."

BiographyBiography · medium confidenceBiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Biography -> BiographyAward Category: National Book Award for History and Biography -> BiographyAward Category: Biography -> BiographyIntellectual BiographyIntellectual History & IdeasAmerican Civil War

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Award for History and BiographyMajor1976FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Charles Ives95%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    The biography presents Charles Ives as a paradox: an obscure early-20th-century spare-time composer who, after his death, became widely recognized as America’s greatest composer.

    Model confidence 78%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    30 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 90%.