Robert Siegel speaks with Bill MacLeish about his book, Uphill with Archie: A Son's Journey (Simon & Schuster, Feb. 2001). Archibald MacLeish was a true polymath: a poet, playwright, statesman, lawyer and journalist. Although intimidated by his father's considerable achievements, Bill MacLeish was able to make his own way professionally and to establish a degree of intimacy with the elder MacLeish.
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