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Lowell Thomas Part II: A Legendary Career and Life

Lowell Thomas Part II: A Legendary Career and Life

How one raconteur created the myth of Lawrence of Arabia, invented travelogues and shaped America’s view of the world. Part II

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Read Part I of Lowell Thomas here.

Frances and Lowell’s son, Lowell Jr., was born in London in 1923. Thomas traveled and wrote prolifically throughout the 1920s, often with the family in tow. They finally settled down at the end of the 1920s, purchasing a farm in Pawling, New York.

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