Ebook: Robert A. Heinlein: in dialogue with his century. Volume 1, 1907-1948, learning curve

The Heinleins of Butler, Missouri -- Growing Up, Kansas City -- A Jazz Age Teenager -- Plebe Summer -- Plebe Year -- Youngster Year -- Second Class Year -- First Classman -- Frying Pan and Fire -- New York State of Mind -- Robert and Uncle Ernie -- Leslyn MacDonald -- Swallowing the Anchor -- Baptism of Fire -- Party and Shadow Party -- Party Animal -- The Next Thing -- And the Next -- Not Quite Done with Politics -- Out and About: the Long, Strange Trip -- Expanding Horizons -- "And put aside childish things..." -- "Do with thy heart what thy hands find to do..." -- Keeping on... -- Stabilizing, Somewhat -- Dangerous New World -- Settling In -- Writing Factory -- Separation. Anxiety -- Also on the Road... -- Once More, Dear Friends... -- Fresh Starts.;Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) is generally considered the greatest American SF writer of the 20th century. A famous and bestselling author in later life, he started as a navy man and graduate of Annapolis who was forced to retire because of tuberculosis. A socialist politician in the 1930s, he became one of the sources of Libertarian politics in the USA in his later years. His most famous works include the Future History series (stories and novels collected in The Past Through Tomorrow and continued in later novels), Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Given his desire for privacy in the later decades of his life, he was both stranger and more interesting than one could ever have known. This is the first of two volumes of a major American biography. This volume is about Robert A. Heinlein's life up to the end of the 1940s and the mid-life crisis that changed him forever. At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.