Dan Eberhart — The World Lost a Man
Dan Eberhart presents his biography of his father Perry Eberhart, a Colorado WWII veteran turned journalist and historian of the American West.
Why we picked this
A son's portrait of a Colorado original — Navy veteran, Sorbonne student, journalist, and historian of the mountain West. The kind of life story that only makes sense when someone takes the time to tell it.
Dan Eberhart celebrates his book The World Lost a Man, a biography of his father Wilfred Perry Eberhart — a Colorado writer and journalist who authored four books about the state’s history. Perry was a Navy WWII veteran who studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, worked in journalism, and developed a deep, lifelong fascination with Colorado’s past.
The biography weaves together Perry’s wartime service, his postwar literary ambitions, and the poetry he wrote throughout his life. It is both a family story and a window into the kind of regional journalism and history-writing that once anchored communities across the American West.
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