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| Alfred Kazin: A Biography
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Richard M. Cook.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: no jacket.
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| ISBN: 9780300115055. Daedalus Item Code: 31839 |
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| (2008 AAUP University Press Book for Public and Secondary School Libraries; 2008 Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Title; 2008 Washington Post best book in the Biography category) This ... (Read More)
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| Charles Dickens: The Making of a Literary Giant
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Christopher Hibbert. Foreword by John Sutherland.
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| Publisher: Palgrave. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780230614260. Daedalus Item Code: 31987 |
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| The biographer of Disraeli, Edward VII, and George VI here gives us an energetic and witty portrait of Charles Dickens. Throwing a clear light on the creative process and sources of literary ... (Read More)
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| Christopher Isherwood Diaries: Volume One: 1939–1960
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Christopher Isherwood. Katherine Bucknell, Ed.
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| Publisher: Vintage. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780099555827. Daedalus Item Code: 32029 |
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| In 1939 Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden emigrated together to the United States, a time Isherwood describes in spare, luminous prose in this first volume of his collected diaries. Turning to his ... (Read More)
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| Conversations with Myself
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Nelson Mandela. Barack Obama, foreword.
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| Publisher: Picador. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780312611682. Daedalus Item Code: 31990 |
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| Not many figures could inspire the President of the United States to pen a foreword for a memoir, but Nelson Mandela certainly is one. This singular record collects key items from Nelson Mandela's ... (Read More)
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| Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One
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Elliott J. Gorn.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780195304831. Daedalus Item Code: 24137 |
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| In an era that witnessed the rise of celebrity outlaws like Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger was the most famous and flamboyant of them all. Reports on the man ... (Read More)
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| George IV: The Rebel Who Would be King
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Christopher Hibbert. Foreword by Amanda Foreman.
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| Publisher: Palgrave. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781403983794. Daedalus Item Code: 31989 |
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| The author of The Borgias and Their Enemies and The House of Medici, as well as biographies of Queen Victoria and King George III, Christopher Hibbert here delivers a superbly detailed ... (Read More)
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| Gouverneur Morris: An Independent Life
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William Howard Adams.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300099805. Daedalus Item Code: 31827 |
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| A frank, urbane, even racy politician, who kept his own counsel and spoke exactly his mind, New York aristocrat Gouverneur Morris was a significant player in the American Revolution, yet was later an ... (Read More)
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| I'd Hate Myself in the Morning: A Memoir
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Ring Lardner Jr. Victor Navasky, intro.
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| Publisher: Nation. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781560253389. Daedalus Item Code: 20230 |
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| This memoir by Ring Lardner Jr. is a pilgrimage through the American century. The son of the immensely popular and influential writer, Lardner worked as a reporter in New York before leaving for ... (Read More)
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| The Letters of Robert Lowell
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Saskia Hamilton.
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| Publisher: FSG. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780374530341. Daedalus Item Code: 31992 |
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| One of the most influential poets of the 20th century, Robert Lowell was also a prolific letter writer who corresponded with many of the remarkable writers and thinkers of his day, including ... (Read More)
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| Martin Frobisher: Elizabethan Privateer
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James McDermott.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300083804. Daedalus Item Code: 31847 |
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| (Keith Matthews Prize Winner)Sponsored by the Canadian Nautical Reasearch Society, James McDermott’s biography of the swashbuckling Martin Frobisher is a highly entertaining account of the ... (Read More)
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| The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
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Robert A. Caro.
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| Publisher: Vintage. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780375713255. Daedalus Item Code: 38567 |
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| (Winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography) The fourth entry in Robert A. Caro's Pulitzer Prize– and National Book ... (Read More)
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| Primo Levi's Universe: A Writer's Journey
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Sam Magavern.
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| Publisher: Palgrave. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780230606470. Daedalus Item Code: 31996 |
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| Widely known for his memoir Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi was also a scientist, fiction writer, and poet—a Renaissance man who did not want to be known only as a Holocaust writer. Using ... (Read More)
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