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Using the image of a flitting hummingbird as a metaphor for the gossamer strands that connect these larger-than-life personalities, Christopher Benfey re-creates the summer of 1882, the summer when Mabel Louise Todd-the protégé to the ...
A family of his own covers Edwin O'Connor's comfortable upbringing in Rhode Island, his formation at Notre Dame, his obscure years in radio and the Coast Guard during World War II, his adoption of Boston, his long association with his ...
... In- author of a 66 dians , " & c . ( 1809. ) Thomas Heyward , one of the siguers of the declaration of independence . Meriwether Lewis , governor of Louisiana . Thomas Paine , a political and deisticat writer — author of the " Age of ...
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Combining the best of Hitchens' polemical punch and intellectual elegance in a tightly woven and subtle argument, this book addresses not only why Orwell matters today, but how he will continue to matter in a future, uncertain world.
Lincoln Paine takes the reader on an intellectual adventure casting the world in a new light, in which the sea reigns supreme. Above all, Paine makes clear how the rise and fall of civilizations can be linked to the sea.
... Thomas Paine, “Common Sense,” 1776, reprinted in Thomas Paine, Common Sense (Westminster, MD: Bantam Books, 2004) 3 ... in author's possession), 31. 15. For an overview of the ways in which pluralist politics changed over the ...
Winner of the Costa Biography Award, a fascinating exploration of one of the 20th century's most influential poets.
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