How Long to Read The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom, 1795-1813 : a Short Account of the Early

How Long Does it Take to Read The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom, 1795-1813 : a Short Account of the Early?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 58 minutes to read The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom, 1795-1813 : a Short Account of the Early by Hendrik Willem Van Loon

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Hendrik Willem van Loon(January 14, 1882 - March 11, 1944) was a Dutch-American historian, journalist, and award-winning children's book author. Life--On December 20, 1939, a great sympathy meeting for Finland, then embroiled in the Winter War, was arranged in Madison Square Garden. In the picture from the left are former president Herbert Hoover (chairman of the Finland-committee), Dr. van Loon, and the mayor of New York Fiorello La Guardia. He was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, the son of Hendrik Willem van Loon and Elisabeth Johanna Hanken. He went to the United States in 1902 to study at Cornell University, receiving his degree in 1905. In 1906 he married Eliza Ingersoll Bowditch (1880-1955), daughter of a Harvard professor, by whom he had two sons, Henry Bowditch and Gerard Willem. The newlyweds moved to Germany, where van Loon received his Ph.D. from the University of Munich in 1911 with a dissertation that became his first book, The Fall of the Dutch Republic (1913). He was a correspondent for the Associated Press during the Russian Revolution of 1905 and again in Belgium in 1914 at the start of World War I. He lectured at Cornell University from 1915 to 1917; in 1919 he became an American citizen.Van Loon had two later marriages, to Eliza Helen (Jimmie) Criswell in 1920 and playwright Frances Goodrich Ames in 1927, but after a divorce from Ames he returned to Criswell (it is debatable whether or not they remarried); she inherited his estate in 1944...........

How long is The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom, 1795-1813 : a Short Account of the Early?

The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom, 1795-1813 : a Short Account of the Early by Hendrik Willem Van Loon is 116 pages long, and a total of 29,696 words.

This makes it 39% the length of the average book. It also has 36% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom, 1795-1813 : a Short Account of the Early Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 42 minutes to read The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom, 1795-1813 : a Short Account of the Early aloud.

What Reading Level is The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom, 1795-1813 : a Short Account of the Early?

The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom, 1795-1813 : a Short Account of the Early is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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