Books written by Lee A. Farrow
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The Catacazy Affair and the Uneasy Path of Russian-American Relations
John Quincy Adams made a similar comment in his memoirs, noting, “it is an impropriety for foreign ministers to publish criticisms on the Government to which they are accredited.”7 By early 1871, Secretary of State Fish was beginning to ...
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Alexis in America: A Russian Grand Duke's Tour, 1871-1872
New Orleans travel guides have also contributed to the myth. See, for example, Honey Naylor, The Insider's Guide to New Orleans (Boston: Harvard Common Press, 1994), 99; Frommer's New Orleans 2001, 10; ...
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Between Clan and Crown: The Struggle to Define Noble Property Rights in Imperial Russia
"Farrow's conclusions are based on extensive research in published and archival primary sources, including inheritance and land disputes overseen by the Imperial Russian Senate, as well as confiscation records from the Chancellery of ...
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The Catacazy Affair and the Uneasy Path of Russian-American Relations
With a keen sense of the human interest, Lee A. Farrow demonstrates that this affair was one of the earliest significant complications in the relationship between Russia and the USA.
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Seward's Folly: A New Look at the Alaska Purchase
But few know the rest of the story. This book aims to correct that. Lee Farrow offers here a detailed account of just what the Alaska Purchase was, how it came about, its impact at the time, and more.
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Alexis in America: A Russian Grand Duke's Tour, 1871-1872
... Marvelous Melba: The Extraordinary Life of a Great Diva (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2009), 105–7; Nellie Melba, Melodies and Memories (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 103–4; Jack Winsor Hansen, The Sibyl Sanderson Story ...