Books written by Alex Beam
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A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books
... Kant, Conrad, Bible, Kierkegaard Clare Pearson, a product of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought—the U. of C.'s ... Leo Strauss, and Allan Bloom—administers the Basic Program, which she calls “an anomaly in continuing education.
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American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church
Like many of the uninitiated, church member Ebenezer Robinson was curious about the secret rituals administered upstairs in the store. But participants could not describe them, under penalty of death. A nonplussed Robinson once spotted ...
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The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship
But early in his tenure with the magazine, “a man called Ross started to 'edit'” one of his stories, “and I wrote to Mrs. White telling her that I could not accept any of those ridiculous and exasperating alterations.”32 Harold Ross ...
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Broken Glass: Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the Fight Over a Modernist Masterpiece
“I mean that you have been talked into an interpretation of your life and self which has shocked and have hospital obligations and outside clinical commitments, she also held “S H E H A D A W E R Y S H A R P T ON GU E . " 45.
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The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship
Wilson attacked his friend's translation with hammer and tong in the New York Review of Books. Nabokov counterattacked in the same publication.
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Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital
This is a compelling and often oddly poignant reading for fans of books like Plath's The Bell Jar and Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted (both inspired by their author's stays at McLean) and for anyone interested in the history of medicine ...
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Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital
Presents a history of the Massachusetts mental institution from its beginnings in the early 19th century to today.
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雅致的精神病院: 美国一流精神病院里的死与生
本书描述的是这座医院和曾经在此生活过的人们的“死”与“生”。
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Broken Glass: Mies Van Der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the Fight Over a Modernist Masterpiece
Their collaboration would produce one of the most important works of architecture of all time, a blindingly original house made up almost entirely of glass and steel.
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Broken Glass: Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the Fight Over a Modernist Masterpiece
Broken Glass leaves us pondering an intriguing paradox : How does one inhabit a work of art ? ' —Hugh Howard , author of Architecture's Odd Couple BY ALEX BEAM Broken Glass The Feud American Crucifixion Gracefully.