The Americans
Like Alexis de Tocqueville a century earlier, Jean Cocteau offers a powerful reminder to Americans of their own potential—and issues In 1949, Jean Cocteau spent twenty days in New York, and began composing on the plane ride home this ...
Henry James brilliantly combines comedy, tragedy, romance, and melodrama in this tale of a wealthy American businessman in Paris. Determined to marry a beautiful aristocrat, he must overcome the machinations...
See Münsterberg, The Americans, 167- 184 (quotes: 170-171). Ibid., 8 (quotes), 24-33, 137-154. But Münsterberg observed that Americans also exhibited less attractive traits, including competitiveness, enthusiastic but also reckless use ...
This ebook features an illustrated biography of John Jakes including rare images from the author’s personal collection.
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He exhibited at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery with Ben Schulz and W. Eugene Smith in 1951 and at Helen Gee's Limelight Coffeehouse (Bunnell ... Margaret Bourke-White and Erskine Caldwell had produced their You Have Seen Their Faces in 1937, ...
Cooper's detailed study was intended for English audiences as a defense against their wide-ranging criticisms. Subjects covered: political systems; manners; landscapes; religion; slavery; the state of arts and letters. Several...
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McCullough mixes famous and obscure names and delivers capsule biographies of everyone to produce a colorful parade of educated, Victorian-era American travelers and their life-changing experiences in Paris.