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Jefferson Square

By: Noel B. Gerson

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Jefferson Square was a multi-million dollar culture center…but there was nothing at all cultural about some of the things that happened there during its grand opening in the Sixties. At the Repertory Theater, a play called Confessional was in rehearsal. Some called it dramatic literature. Others considered it a tasteless exploitation of the playwright’s former marriage to America’s queen of sex. In the expensive interior of Symphony Hall, the brilliant and erratic conductor of the Jefferson Square Symphony Orchestra was working feverishly on a new concerto while his private life was rushing toward its own scandalous crescendo. In the board room, the dream of the state’s governor for a presidential nomination was interrupted by the discovery that Jefferson Square was making this rich man richer. And in the executive offices, where architects’ drawings were still being argued over, Jefferson Square’s recently hired cultural director was being tempted to destroy what he had been employed to hold together. Jefferson Square provides a fascinating glimpse of life behind the scenes in the midst of the creation of a new urban cultural epicenter, a symbol of the gentrification forcing out longtime neighborhood inhabitants. From the glitz and the glamor of Jefferson Square proper, to the hardships faced by residents of the condemned projects in the area, Gerson brings microcosms of the Sixties to Technicolor life.

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513

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Rowman & Littlefield

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ISBN 10

1590774337

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9781590774335

Special Agent

By: Noel Bertram Gerson

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Special Agent

By: Noel Bertram Gerson

A fictional account of the work of special agents in an FBI field office.

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270

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Saturday Review Press

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0841504512

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9780841504516

Neptune

By: Noel Bertram Gerson

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Neptune

By: Noel Bertram Gerson

An American intelligence agency and a patriotic industrialist conceive a plan to recover a sunken Russian submarine.

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260

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Dodd Mead

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0396073255

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9780396073253

Jefferson Square

By: Noel B. Gerson

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

A Biography

By: Noel Bertram Gerson

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

A Biography

By: Noel Bertram Gerson

In an age when women were usually confined to the kitchen, bedroom or parlor, Harriet Stowe argued emancipation with President Lincoln.

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244

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New York : Praeger Publishers

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0275340708

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9780275340704

The Prodigal Genius: The Life and Times of Honoré de Balzac

By: Noel B. Gerson

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The Prodigal Genius: The Life and Times of Honoré de Balzac

By: Noel B. Gerson

An authoritative biography of one of nineteenth-century Europe's greatest authors. Perfect for readers who wish to find out more about this literary giant who was admired by his contemporaries from across the globe, including Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens and Henry James. Author, businessman, bankruptee, gourmand, lover ... few people have managed to accomplish so much in one lifetime as the French author Honoré de Balzac. Hailed as a genius in his own lifetime for his realistic depiction of nineteenth-century French life - an assessment with which he readily agreed - it was Balzac's own life that was often more extraordinary than his fiction. Noel B. Gerson charts the rise and fall of this remarkable man through the course of his life, providing insight into the versatile genius and exposing his punishing work schedule and the complexities of his romance-laden, debt-ridden personal life. By utilizing a wealth of primary sources, including the letters written between Balzac and his friends, family and lovers, Gerson masterfully captures the character of 1830s Paris and its most eminent author. The Prodigal Genius: The Life and Times of Honoré de Balzac is an impressive literary biography of one of France's greatest novelists, dramatists, essayists and critics.

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1800551835

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9781800551831

Trelawny's World: A Biography of Edward John Trelawny

By: Noel B. Gerson

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Trelawny's World: A Biography of Edward John Trelawny

By: Noel B. Gerson

An enthralling biography of an archetypal nineteenth century Romantic.Ideal for readers who enjoyed Emily Brand's The Fall of the House of Byron or Jonathan Bate's Radical Wordsworth. Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron are some of the greatest poets of any era. They lived extraordinary lives and refused to conform with what society expected of them. Yet how do we know so much about the lives of these two heroes of the Romantic era who both died before their time? Friend of both Shelley and Byron, Edward John Trelawny was a brilliant writer in his own right and recorded their adventures in his famous book Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author. Meeting them in Italy he travelled with them in the Mediterranean, teaching both how to sail and sharing tales, before tragically having to organise the funerals of both men in the aftermaths of their deaths just under two years apart. Noel B. Gerson demonstrates in this biography that in many ways Trelawny led a more daring existence than either of the famous poets, joining the navy as a young boy, travelling across the globe and serving in British warships during the Napoleonic Wars, before fighting in Greek War of Independence, surviving sieges and assassination attempts. Although unschooled Trelawny recorded the details of his fascinating life in a number of bestselling memoirs, which along with a variety of other contemporary sources have allowed Gerson to uncover his remarkable life and the world in which he lived. Trelawny's World: A Biography of Edward John Trelawny allows this remarkable man to step out from the shadows of his famous friends and emerge as a truly exceptional figure before the readers eyes.

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Sapere Books

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1800554036

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9781800554030

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