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Showing posts with label biography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biography. Show all posts
Saturday, March 18, 2017

The Great Championer of Art (Books - Kenneth Clark: Life, Art, and Civilisation by James Stourton)

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Kenneth Clark, I think it is safe to say, was the most influential championer of art of his time.  Art consultant to King George VI, Direc...
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Saturday, June 11, 2016

One Immigrant Who Made America Great (Books - Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow)

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I'm not sure that Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton (Penguin Books, 2004) the bestselling biography and basis for Lin-Manuel Mirand...
Monday, April 4, 2016

Alexander Humboldt's broadreaching influence on modern science (Books - The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf)

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Andrea Wulf's biography The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015) shares the irrepresab...
Saturday, May 16, 2015

Two formative men of the American Theatre (Books - A Life by Elia Kazan & Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr)

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The life stories of two American Theatre makers monopolized my reading back in January: Elia Kazan: A Life , film and theatre director Kaz...
Thursday, May 1, 2014

Fragmented genius became the conscience of 20th century physics (Books - Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center by Ray Monk)

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I have finally finished Ray Monk's behemoth of a biography Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center (Doubleday, 2012).  It's ...
Saturday, December 8, 2012

Voluptuary and statesman (Books - Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie)

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Literature, theatre, and neuroscience are the fascinations I profess in the tagline to this blog, but while my enthusiasm for fiction and ...
Friday, November 23, 2012

Humane political thought as it arises from facing the conflict in ourselves (Books - Isaiah Berlin: A Life by Michael Ignatieff)

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I had felt enough of the influence of Isaiah Berlin on contemporary political thinkers and writers who I like to read, that I wanted to kn...
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Saturday, January 22, 2011

Focused biography of E. M. Forster & sociopolitical history of gay life in 20th Century Britain (A Great Unrecorded History by Wendy Moffat)

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In the opening chapter of Wendy Moffat's A Great Unrecorded History , her new biography of writer E. M. Forster, John Lehmann influe...
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Saturday, July 10, 2010

Books on becoming... (Books - Microcosm by Carl Zimmer, The Statue Within by Francois Jacob, & Little Monsters by Charles Lambert)

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Crazy week. I've been writing a paper in the lab (which means a lot of work-related reading), and it has been hot enough here in New Yo...
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Friday, June 18, 2010

Man as hyperbole (Books: How we Decide by Jonah Lehrer & The Road to Xanadu by Simon Callow)

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I find myself with so much reading and writing for work (and such a desire to be out and moving when I'm not working) that I'm ge...
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