Gary Giddins' idiosyncratic series of essays on key figures in 20th-century jazz doesn't pretend to be an all-inclusive guide to the key players in the first century of the music's history; his introduction makes plain that, aside from obvious inclusions like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, he r ...
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Decimation means the killing of every tenth person in a population, and in the spring and early summer of 1994 a program of massacres decimated the Republic of Rwanda. Although the killing was low-tech--performed largely by machete--it was carried out at dazzling speed: of an original population of ...
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Relates the story of the only French writer to be executed for treason during World War II, from his rise during the 1930s to his trial and death in front of a firing squad.
A panoramic history of the United States ranges from the 1815 Battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War and chronicles the dramatic changes that took place in America during the period, interweaving political and military events with social, economic, and cultural history to addre ...
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This anecdotal study explores the marks readers leave behind in books as they read. Sometimes readers mourn what's not present in the margin: Fermat's last theorem is famously missing because he allegedly found the margins too small; sometimes they deplore what is: De Quincey admonished Wordsworth f ...
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A collection of 50 of Christopher Ricks's reviews from the TLS, London Review of Books, New York Review of Books, New York Times Book Review, and other publications, REVIEWERY contains Ricks's opinions on such major literary figures as Seamus Heaney, V.S. Naipaul, Ezra Pound, Leslie Fiedler, Stanley ...
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