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| Robert Nisbet: Communitarian Traditionalist
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Brad Lowell Stone.
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| Publisher: ISI Books. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781882926480. Daedalus Item Code: 31158 |
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| "The conservative sociologist Robert Nisbet (1913–96) wrote extensively on community and social breakdown, articulating a principled perspective of the decline of civic-minded solidarity in light of ... (Read More)
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| Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor
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Rosina Harrison.
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| Publisher: Penguin. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780143120865. Daedalus Item Code: 29747 |
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| In 1928, Rosina Harrison arrived at the illustrious household of the Astor family to take up her new position as personal maid to the infamously temperamental Lady Nancy Astor, who sat in Parliament, ... (Read More)
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| Samuel Johnson: A Personal History
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Christopher Hibbert. Foreword by Henry Hitchings.
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| Publisher: Palgrave. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780230614277. Daedalus Item Code: 31988 |
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| In his close-up biography of the Western world's most influential literary critic, Christopher Hibbert unearths little-known anecdotes to paint Samuel Johnson's time as a schoolboy, his ... (Read More)
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| The Secret Wife of Louis XIV: Francoise d'Aubigne, Madame de Maintenon
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Veronica Buckley.
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| Publisher: Picador. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780312430054. Daedalus Item Code: 21715 |
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| Françoise d'Aubigné—Marquise de Maintenon and secret wife of the Sun King, Louis XIV—was born in a French prison in 1635, her father a condemned traitor, her mother the warden's seduced daughter. A ... (Read More)
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| Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar
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Adam Nicolson.
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| Publisher: Harper Perennial. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780060753627. Daedalus Item Code: 14178 |
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| The author of God's Secretaries here uses the battle of Trafalgar to examine ideas of heroism and the heroic. Is violence a necessary aspect of the hero? And daring? Why did the cult of the ... (Read More)
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| Sex Variant Woman: The Life of Jeannette Howard Foster
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Joanne Passet.
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| Publisher: DaCapo. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780786718221. Daedalus Item Code: 21516 |
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| Jeannette Howard Foster was to lesbians in the mid-20th century what such authors as Gore Vidal and James Baldwin were to gay men. She unapologetically blew the lid off Cold War sexual repression in ... (Read More)
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| She Always Knew How: Mae West, a Personal Biography
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Charlotte Chandler.
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| Publisher: Simon & Schuster. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781416579090. Daedalus Item Code: 10758 |
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| The biographer of Alfred Hitchcock, Ingrid Bergman, Groucho Marx, and many other Hollywood favorites, Charlotte Chandler here draws on a series of interviews she conducted with Mae West just months ... (Read More)
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| A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother
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Janny Scott.
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| Publisher: Riverhead. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781594487972. Daedalus Item Code: 31622 |
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| "The key to understanding the disciplined and often impassive 44th president is his mother, as Janny Scott, a [Pulitzer Prize–winning] reporter for the New York Times, decisively demonstrates ... (Read More)
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| Sisters of Fortune: America's Caton Sisters at Home and Abroad
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Jehanne Wake.
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| Publisher: Touchstone. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781451607611. Daedalus Item Code: 23939 |
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| As gripping as any great historical novel, this is the true story of Marianne, Bess, Louisa, and Emily Caton, the exuberant American sisters who enthralled English Regency society. Descended from ... (Read More)
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| Somewhere for Me: A Biography of Richard Rodgers
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Meryle Secrest.
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| Publisher: Applause. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781557835819. Daedalus Item Code: 21792 |
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| Teamed first with Lorenz Hart in the 1920s and 30s and then with Oscar Hammerstein in the 1940s and 50s, Richard Rodgers composed some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century and ushered in a ... (Read More)
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