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Charmed Circle

Gertrude Stein and Company

By: James R. Mellow

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Charmed Circle

Gertrude Stein and Company

By: James R. Mellow

Spanning the years from 1903, when Gertrude Stein first arrived in Paris, to her final days at the end of World War II, "Charmed Circle" is a penetrating and lively account of a writer at the heart of modernity. Four 8-page photo inserts.

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Macmillan

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0805073515

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9780805073515

Charmed Circle

Gertrude Stein and Company

By: James R. Mellow

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Charmed Circle

Gertrude Stein and Company

By: James R. Mellow

Avant-garde Paris comes to life in this "meticulous and loving reconstruction of the period" (The New York Times Book Review) On almost every Saturday of the first half of the twentieth century, Gertrude Stein would open her door to the likes of Picasso and Matisse, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, Cocteau and Apollinaire, welcoming them into a salon alive with vivid avant-garde paintings and sparkling intellectual conversation. In Charmed Circle, James R. Mellow has re-created this fascinating world and the complex woman who dominated it. His engaging narrative illuminates Stein's writing—now celebrated along with the work of such literary giants as Joyce and Woolf—including her difficult early periods, which adapted cubism and abstraction to the written word. Rich with detail and insight, it conveys both the serene rhythms of daily life with her devoted partner, Alice B. Toklas, and the radical pulse and dramatic upheavals of her exciting era. Spanning the years from 1903, when Stein first arrived in Paris, to her final days at the end of the Second World War, Charmed Circle is a penetrating and lively account of a writer at the heart of modernity.

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958

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Macmillan + ORM

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1466801956

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9781466801950

Henry R. Luce and the Rise of the American News Media

By: James L. Baughman

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Henry R. Luce and the Rise of the American News Media

By: James L. Baughman

A solid account of Luce's life and legacy... A concise, readable volume." -- Journalism Quarterly

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634

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JHU Press

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0801867169

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9780801867163

The Manliest Man

Samuel G. Howe and the Contours of Nineteenth-century American Reform

By: James W. Trent

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The Manliest Man

Samuel G. Howe and the Contours of Nineteenth-century American Reform

By: James W. Trent

He was a veteran of the Greek War of Independence, a fervent abolitionist, and the founder of both the Perkins School for the Blind and the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Children. Married to Julia Ward Howe, author of "Battle Hymn of the Republic," he counted among his friends Senator Charles Summer, public school advocate Horace Mann, and poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. A committed reformer, Howe believed in the perfectibility of human beings and spoke out in favor of progressive services for disabled Americans. He embraced a notion of manliness that included heroism under fire but also compassion for the underdog and the oppressed. Though hardly a man without flaws and failures, he nevertheless represented the optimism that characterized much of antebellum American reform. The first full-length biography of Howe in more than fifty years, The Manliest Man offers an original view of his personal life, his association with social causes of his time, and his efforts to shape those causes in ways that allowed for the greater inclusion of devalued people in the mainstream of American life. Book jacket.

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338

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Univ of Massachusetts Press

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1558499598

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9781558499591

Hemingway

A Life Without Consequences

By: James R. Mellow

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Hemingway

A Life Without Consequences

By: James R. Mellow

In this brilliant, elegantly written biography, award-winning author James R. Mellow offers a thorough reassessment of a man who was both a literary giant and an icon for his age. The final volume in Mellow's ”Lost Generation” trilogy, Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences is also a homage to Paris in the 1920s and a tribute to the writers and artists who set the indelible standards for the modern age.

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736

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Da Capo Press

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0201626209

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9780201626209

Walker Evans

By: James R. Mellow

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Walker Evans

By: James R. Mellow

The Depression Era photographs of Walker Evans (1903-1975) remain some of the most indelible and iconic images in the American consciousness. James R. Mellow's landmark biography of Evans-the first to make use of all his diaries, letters, work logs, and contact sheets-shows that Evans was not the social propagandist that many presume, but rather a fastidious observer, recording, simply, the way things were. Walker Evans is not only one of the most finely wrought portraits of a major American artist ever, it is also a fascinating cultural history of America in the 1930s and '40s.

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Basic Books

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0465090788

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9780465090785

Walker Evans

By: James R. Mellow

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Walker Evans

By: James R. Mellow

A landmark biography of the great American photographer Walker Evans, written by one of America's most esteemed biographers

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1903985137

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9781903985137

Among My Books by James Russell Lowell

By: James Russell Lowell

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Among My Books by James Russell Lowell

By: James Russell Lowell

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Wentworth Press

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0526651342

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9780526651344

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Walker Evans

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