This book seeks to step outside the simple stories of Indian/white relations--stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as virtu ...
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"Luminous. . .Filled with profound and upsetting ideas like the Burgess Shale itself and just as solid. It is surely one of nature's best stories, told with a light touce by a master of the field".--Lewis Thomas, M.D.
This remarkable biography, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, shines a light on one of America's greatest patrons of the arts, Lincoln Kirstein, who fought for and funded many of the greatest artists and institutions of the 20th century. Kirstein was a complicated and neurotic character whose aesthe ...
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The author of the bestseller Freud presents a close examination of the aggression--and debate about aggression--that raged through the Victorian Age. Gay looks at the works of such figures as Theodore Roosevelt and Nietzsche to present penetrating new insights.