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Bill Walton grew up with days full of purpose and a compelling need to harmonize the reality of his current experiences and the people he met, with his youth’s Midwestern small town perspective and with a rich family of values that he treasured throughout his life. He was a writer, artist, confidante to key figures of the 20th century, and a major Washington player. Bill counted among his well-known friends: Ernest and Mary Hemingway, John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Robert Kennedy, Charles Collingwood, Marie and Averell Harriman, Pamela Churchill Harriman, Martha Gellhorn, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Babe and William Paley, Marietta and Ronald Tree, Philip and Katharine Graham, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. and I. M. Pei, and many more. During the bloody World War II Battle of Hurtgen Forest—a few months after the Normandy Invasion—Bill became friends with America’s most celebrated writer, Ernest Hemingway. They had met six months prior at one of photographer Robert Capa’s bashes in London, during the run-up to D-Day. In the intervening months, they became better acquainted socially—celebrating with friends the liberation of Paris at the Ritz and vaca-tioning on the Island of St. Michel with fellow journalists. In the Hurtgen Forest, how-ever, they bonded for life. Both worked on newspapers early on. Both craved adventure. And, not unlike Hemingway, both desired to stay close and be independent of the War with all its related pain. Ultimately, the War defined Bill Walton. A journalist turned painter, Bill was made Chairman by President Kennedy of the Fine Arts Commission. In that position, he worked closely with Mrs. Kennedy on several other cultural projects as well.
- Sales Rank: #2647300 in Books
- Published on: 2013-09-26
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .56" w x 6.00" l, .90 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 248 pages
About the Author
Mary Hackett, the author, is Bill’s niece by marriage Mary Hackett is the niece, by mar-riage, of William Walton. They developed a close relationship which was personal, and one of shared interests in gardening, art, archeology, Native American pottery, architec-ture, and the appreciation of books. The author has lived several years in the Orient and Mexico, and traveled widely. After he died, Bill's lifelong letters to his older sister were inherited by Mary and her husband. The letters, and many intimate conversations, are the basis for this book. She felt his life was so unusual, personally involving several presi-dents and many of the famous people of our history, that his story should be chronicled for others to know.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
An amazing 'back story' of prominent 1930-1980 historical figures...
By John
I just finished this book and couldn't put it down! Metaphorically, most books are written about 'the mountainous' figures of history. But the improbable, artistic, and charismatic life of Bill Walton might better be described as 'the clear winding river' that flowed smoothly around and through them, connecting them all together. Hemingway, Gellhorn, JFK & Jackie, prominent WW-II figures, and dozens of others, great and small, as few have known them, based upon six decades of treasured letters sent home. You will laugh out loud a dozen times... and you will cry two or three.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Fascinating Bio of Man Behind the Scenes During Great Events in America's History...
By Glenda
A writer will always write and when William Walton went to report on many activities in Europe, he also wrote letters home to his family. He had always thought of writing his own biography, but thankfully, the family, and, in particular his sister-in-law Mary Hackett saw that his letters could be turned into one of the most interesting books sharing American history from a journalist's viewpoint...
Those who will want to travel with him into the war years will certainly have the opportunity. I think the thing that made the most impression on me regardinghis desire to do all that he could to keep America informed was to accept an invitation to train as a paratrooper. He jumped so that he was already there by the time the ground troops showed up!
But not all was about the war... Bill became close friends with Ernest Hemingway and his wife Martha Gellhorn, shown at the left (on my blog)...Hemingway even saved Bill's life, but there were many times for social gatherings as well.
One personal interest caught my attention--Bill was there when the most wanted gangster, John Dillinger was killed and rode with his body to the Cook County morgue. {Me, I'm related to Dillinger's and had a John Dillinger in my family who always got picked on--LOL} Bill..."noticed that Dillinger must, at some point, have attempted to file or burn his hands in an effort to eliminate identifying fingerprints...This reporting coup gave Bill his first national recognition. His byline, "by William Walton," would soon begin to appear in many more publications..."
Another little tidbit I enjoyed was that when, in June 1946, Bill stood to receive an honorary degree he gave a little [payback] speech... "he noticed that most of the faculty seated before him were those who had voted to kick him out almost 20 years earlier...At the end of his speech, to express his displeasure with the school's heavy-handed discipline so many years before, he turned his backside to the assembled crowd and bowed. Later, he commented to his family, "There was a very nice shape to that!" To me, that's why we enjoy reading about people's lives, don't we?!
I became fascinated with Walton's love of the outdoors and his painting activities, which became a little more well known when Bill became friends with John F. Kennedy and his family to carry through even to helping with the arrangements for his burial. There is quite a bit covering that time and his friendship with Jackie afterward Kennedy's death. "(1949-1960)"
"Life," for whom he had also worked, took his friendship with Kennedy to write an article about his paintings. in "Life" in 1961. At first when you read somebody is an artist and a friend of Ernest Hemingway, et. al., don't you just wonder where somebody gets all that talent, LOL! I don't know about you, but you must begin to admire this man, don't you think?!
There's a strange appeal to his work as well as his life during the period from 1949 to 1960 when he traveled and spent most of his time painting... Although it doesn't quite come out and say it, but his trip to his final destination in Italy brought him together with Martha Gellhorn who was by then divorced from Hemingway, (Bill was also divorced by that time) writing to his sister:
...two met in Rome and "the room I took," as he described it, had "long windows and small balconies looking out on tiled roofs where chickens, cats, people, and flowers dwell in magnificent turbulence..." Italy stood out for its color. ...One night they dined at a well-known and established restaurant, the next night at a charming sidewalk cafe where strolling musicians and splashing fountains enveloped them, making for a lovely scene. They returned to their hotel by horse carriage, which sounded so romantic, though Bill simply chalked it up as the last expensive transportation...
Bill could not have been happier painting the beautiful vistas in the bold colors that came to distinguish his painting...
Going back a bit, I wanted to include at least part of Bill's words written on the occasion of Jack Kennedy's inauguration:
"We slowly proceeded toward Constitution Hall amid the darnedest scenes of staff cars, clustered people wrapped to the eyes and torchlight flickering on the heavy snow. A beautiful trip... silver ribbons of snow swirling through the floodlights around the Washington Monument, and a snowy glow over everything and as we rode along, the inside lights on to display Jackie, she commented it was "so cozy with the world all shut out by the storm." Jack read Jefferson's first inaugural and at the end said quietly "Better than mine."
On the other hand, of course, there are not too many Americans who cannot cite Kennedy's last line: Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country. That night the overture "From Sea to Shining Sea" also was played for the first time in public...
Mary Hackett and editor Mary Claire Kendall have presented us with an excellent review of the life of William Hackett! There is so much more that is included such as his interest in the arts, architecture, and of course, writing... This is well worth any historian's interest because of the personal insights in not only Walton's life, but all that he was involved with!
Highly recommended for those who enjoy reading about the lives of those that were involved in our own lives, but we just...didn't...know him at the time. Now is your opportunity to meet a man with a charmed life (I guess I would say that definitely is true based upon the action he saw in WWII!)
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By Sheldon G. Moore
Very well written and organized. Interesting subject, fun and easy read. A must read for history buffs of the WWII era.
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