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| x Tom Wolfe |
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A Man in Full |
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr. (born March 2, 1931 in Richmond, Virginia), known as Tom Wolfe, is a best-selling American author and journalist. He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Wolfe was born in Richmond,...
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| The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test | |||
| The Bonfire of the Vanities | |||
| Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast | |||
| The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby | |||
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| x Elizabeth Kostova |
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The Historian |
Elizabeth Johnson Kostova (born December 26, 1964) is an American author best known for her debut novel The Historian.
Elizabeth Johnson was born in New London, Connecticut and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee. She received her undergraduate degree...
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| Dracula | |||
| La Historiadora / The Historian | |||
| Dracula | |||
| x Sinclair Lewis |
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Babbitt |
Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his vigorous and graphic art of...
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| Free Air | |||
| Arrowsmith | |||
| Main Street | |||
| Elmer Gantry | |||
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| x David McCullough |
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1776 |
David Gaub McCullough (mə-kŭl'ə) (born July 7, 1933 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American author, narrator, and lecturer. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of...
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| The Path Between the Seas | |||
| John Adams | |||
| Truman | |||
| Mornings on Horseback | |||
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| x Mark Z. Danielewski |
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The Fifty Year Sword |
Mark Z. Danielewski (born March 5, 1966) is an American author. He is the son of Polish avant-garde film director Tad Danielewski and the brother of singer and songwriter Annie Decatur Danielewski, a.k.a. Poe.
Danielewski studied English Literature...
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| House of Leaves | |||
| The Whalestoe Letters | |||
| Only Revolutions | |||
| Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves | |||
| x Daniel J. Boorstin |
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The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World |
Daniel Joseph Boorstin (October 1, 1914 – February 28, 2004) was an American historian, professor, attorney, and writer. He was appointed twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress from 1975 until 1987.
Boorstin was born in 1914 in Atlanta,...
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| The Discoverers | |||
| The Creators | |||
| The republic of technology | |||
| The Daniel J. Boorstin reader | |||
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| x Joel Spolsky |
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Joel on Software |
Avram Joel Spolsky (born 1965) is a software engineer and writer. He is the author of Joel on Software, a blog on software development targeted mainly at writers of Windows software. He was a Program Manager on the Microsoft Excel team between 1991...
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| Smart and Gets Things Done | |||
| The Best Software Writing I | |||
| User Interface Design for Programmers | |||
| x Thornton Wilder |
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. His best known work is his play Our Town.
Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and was the son of Amos Parker Wilder, a U.S. diplomat, and Isabella...
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| Our Town | |||
| The Merchant of Yonkers | |||
| The Skin of Our Teeth | |||
| The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder | |||
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| x John Knowles | Peace Breaks Out |
John Knowles (born September 16, 1926 in Fairmont, West Virginia, died on November 29, 2001 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) was an American novelist, best known for his novel A Separate Peace.
He married Beth Anne Dymen Hughes at 19. A 1945 graduate...
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| A Separate Peace | |||
| Double vision | |||
| Morning in Antibes | |||
| stolen past | |||
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| x Robert Jay Lifton |
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Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism |
Robert Jay Lifton (born May 16, 1926) is an American psychiatrist and author, chiefly known for his studies of the psychological causes and effects of war and political violence and for his theory of thought reform. He was an early proponent of the...
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| Cults in our Midst | |||
| Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima | |||
| Nazi doctors | |||
| genocidal mentality | |||
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| x Judith Tarr | Alamut series |
Judith Tarr (born 1955) is an American author, best known for her fantasy books. She received her B.A. in Latin and English from Mount Holyoke College in 1976, and has an M.A. in Classics from Cambridge University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Medieval...
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| The Hound and the Falcon | |||
| Zeit des Feuers. | |||
| Hall of the Mountain King | |||
| Die heilige Stadt. Die Geheimnisse von Rhiyana 3. | |||
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| x Louann Brizendine |
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The Female Brain |
Louann Brizendine M.D., is a neuropsychiatrist and the author of The Female Brain which was published by Morgan Road Books in 2006.
Dr. Brizendine is an expert in women's moods and hormones. Her academic credentials include completing her degree in...
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| x Christopher Buckley |
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Thank You For Smoking: A Novel |
Christopher Taylor Buckley (born December 24, 1952) is an American political satirist and the author of novels including God Is My Broker, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, The White House Mess, No Way to Treat a First Lady, Wet Work,...
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| Florence of Arabia | |||
| Little Green Men: A Novel | |||
| No Way to Treat a First Lady | |||
| Boomsday | |||
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| x Lewis Black |
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Nothing's Sacred |
Lewis Niles Black (born August 30, 1948) is an American stand-up comedian, author, playwright and actor. He is known for his comedy style which often includes simulating a mental breakdown or an increasingly angry rant, ridiculing history, politics,...
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| x James Fenimore Cooper |
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The Last of the Mohicans |
James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories and the historical novels known as the...
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| The Pioneers | |||
| The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea | |||
| The Prairie: A Tale | |||
| The Deerslayer | |||
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| x Jonathan D. Katz |
Jonathan David Katz is the former executive coordinator of the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale University. He is a former chair of the Department of Lesbian and Gay studies at the City College of San Francisco, and was...
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| x Samuel Bowles |
Samuel Bowles (born 1939) is an American economist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught courses on microeconomics and the theory of institutions.
Bowles graduated with a B.A. from Yale University in...
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| x Harold Bloom |
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The Anxiety of Influence |
Harold Bloom (born July 11, 1930) is an American writer and literary critic, currently Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University. He is known for his defense of 19th-century Romantic poets, his construction of controversial theories of...
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| Shelley's Mythmaking | |||
| The Flight to Lucifer | |||
| The Western Canon | |||
| Cat's Cradle | |||
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| x Wendy Wasserstein |
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The Sisters Rosensweig |
Wendy Wasserstein (October 18, 1950 – January 30, 2006) was an American playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1989 for her play,...
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| The Heidi Chronicles | |||
| Uncommon Women and Others | |||
| Elements of Style | |||
| x James Wilcox |
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North Gladiola |
James Wilcox (b. 1949 in Hammond, Louisiana) is an American novelist and a professor at LSU in Baton Rouge.
Wilcox is the author of eight comic novels set in, or featuring characters from, the fictional town of Tula Springs, Louisiana. Wilcox's...
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| Polite Sex | |||
| Plain and normal | |||
| Heavenly days | |||
| Miss Undine's living room | |||
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| x John Boswell |
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Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality |
John Eastburn Boswell (March 20, 1947–December 24, 1994) was a prominent historian and a professor at Yale University. Many of Boswell's studies focused on the issue of homosexuality and religion, specifically homosexuality and Christianity.
Born in...
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| Rediscovering gay history | |||
| kindness of strangers | |||
| Same-sex unions in premodern Europe | |||
| x Joseph E. Stiglitz |
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Globalization and Its Discontents |
Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (born February 9, 1943) is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979). He is also the former...
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| The Three Trillion Dollar War | |||
| Making Globalization Work | |||
| More instruments and broader goals : moving toward the post Washington consensus | |||
| La Grande Désillusion | |||
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| x Lee Strobel |
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The Case for Christ |
Lee Patrick Strobel (born January 25, 1952 in Arlington Heights, Illinois) is a writer, Creationist and Christian apologist and a former journalist and megachurch pastor. He is the author of several books, including four ECPA Christian Book Award...
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| The Case for a Creator | |||
| El Caso de la Resurreccion | |||
| Case for Christmas, TheMM 20-Pack | |||
| God's outrageous claims | |||
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| x Judith Butler |
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Contingency, Hegemony, Universality |
Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American post-structuralist philosopher, who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, and ethics. She is the Maxine Elliott professor in the...
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| Hass spricht. Zur Politik des Performativen | |||
| Excitable Speech. A Politics of the Performative | |||
| Mecanismos psiquicos del poder / The Psychic Life of Power | |||
| Vida Precaria | |||
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| x William F. Buckley, Jr. |
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God and Man at Yale |
William Frank Buckley, Jr. (November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American conservative author and commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966...
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| Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater | |||
| Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription: Notes and Asides from National Review | |||
| Getting It Right | |||
| Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography | |||
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| x Joseph J. Ellis |
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His Excellency: George Washington |
Joseph John Ellis (born 1943) is a Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College who has written influential and award-winning histories on the founding generation of American presidents. His book Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation ...
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| Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation | |||
| American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson | |||
| American Creation | |||
| New England mind in transition | |||
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| x George Seldon | Cricket in Times Square |
George Selden Thompson (May 14, 1929 – December 5, 1989) was an American author.
George Selden (May 14, 1929, Hartford, Connecticut – December 5, 1989, New York City, New York) was the pseudonym of the American writer George Selden Thompson. He was...
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| Harry Kitten and Tucker Mouse | |||
| Tucker's Countryside | |||
| Un Grillo En Time Square | |||
| Grillo En Times Square/a Cricket in Times Square | |||
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| x Jonathan Wells |
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design |
John Corrigan "Jonathan" Wells (born 1942) is an American author and a prominent advocate of intelligent design. A member of the Unification Church, Wells wrote that the teachings of church founder Sun Myung Moon, his own studies at the Unification...
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| Icons of Evolution | |||
| Of Pandas and People | |||
| Third Rail | |||
| The Design of Life | |||
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| x The Firesign Theatre |
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The Firesign Theatre's Big Book Of Plays |
The Firesign Theatre is an American comedy troupe consisting of Phil Austin, Peter Bergman, David Ossman and Philip Proctor.
The troupe began as live radio performers in Los Angeles, California on radio stations KPPC-FM and KPFK during the mid-1960s...
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| The Firesign Theatre's Big Mystery Joke Book | |||
| x Pat Robertson |
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Bring It On |
Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson (born March 22, 1930) is a televangelist from the United States. He is the founder of numerous organizations and corporations, including the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), the Christian Broadcasting Network...
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| Six Steps to Spiritual Revival | |||
| The autobiography of Pat Robertson | |||
| Diez Ofensas, Las | |||
| Ten Offenses | |||
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| x Scooter Libby |
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The Apprentice |
Irve Lewis "Scooter" Libby (born August 22, 1950) was an Assistant to the former President of the United States, George W. Bush and Chief of Staff to the former Vice President, Dick Cheney, and Assistant to the Vice President for National Security...
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| x Paul Kennedy | The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers |
Paul Michael Kennedy CBE, FBA (born 1945), is a British historian specialising in international relations and grand strategy. He has published prominent books on the history of British foreign policy and Great Power struggles.
Kennedy was born in...
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| The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations | |||
| Pacific onslaught 7th Dec. 1941/7th Feb. 1943 | |||
| Strategy and diplomacy, 1870-1945 | |||
| Preparing for the Twenty First Century | |||
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| x Bill Clinton |
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My Life |
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He was the third-youngest president; only Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy were younger when...
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| Peace is Possible | |||
| Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World | |||
| Photograph and The American Dream, 1840-1940, The | |||
| From Red Tape to Results | |||
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| x Elizabeth Wurtzel |
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Prozac Nation |
Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel is an American writer and journalist famous for her work in the confessional memoir genre. She is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School. As of January 2009 she is employed by Boies, Schiller & Flexner in New York...
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| More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction | |||
| The Secret of Life: Commonsense Advice for Uncommon Women | |||
| Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women | |||
| Nacion Prozac | |||
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| x Maria Rybakova |
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Maria Rybakova (Russian: Мария Рыбакова) (b. 1973 in Moscow) is a Russian writer. She is a granddaughter of Russian writer Anatoly Rybakov and a daughter of literary critic Natalia Ivanova.
Rybakova studied Classics since she was 17 years old when...
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| x Stephen Vincent Benét |
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The Devil and Daniel Webster |
Stephen Vincent Benét (July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American author, poet, short story writer, and novelist. Benét is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body (1928), for which he won a...
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| John Brown's Body | |||
| x David Leavitt | The Body of Jonah Boyd |
David Leavitt (born June 23, 1961) is an American novelist.
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Leavitt is a graduate of Yale University and a professor at the University of Florida. He has also taught at Princeton.
He is the author of Family Dancing,...
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| The Lost Language of Cranes | |||
| The Page Turner | |||
| While England Sleeps | |||
| Florence | |||
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| x Donald Ogden Stewart |
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Donald Ogden Stewart (November 30, 1894 - August 2, 1980) was an American author and screenwriter.
His hometown was Columbus, Ohio. He graduated from Yale University, where he became a brother to the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi chapter), in...
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| x ZZ Packer |
ZZ Packer (born January 12, 1973 Chicago, Illinois) is an African-American author, notable for her works of short fiction.
She grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and Louisville, Kentucky. Her given name is Zuwena (Swahili for "good"), but "After a while of...
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| x Albert Maltz |
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Albert Maltz (October 28, 1908 – April 26, 1985) was an American author and screenwriter who was one of the Hollywood Ten who were blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Albert...
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| x David Pogue |
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The great Macintosh Easter egg hunt |
David Pogue (born March 9, 1963) is a technology writer, technology columnist and commentator. He is a personal technology columnist for the New York Times, an Emmy-winning tech correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning, and weekly tech...
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| Switching to the Mac | |||
| Windows XP home edition | |||
| The iMac for dummies | |||
| Windows Me | |||
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| x Charles Green Shaw |
Charles Green Shaw (1 May 1892—2 April 1974) was an American painter and writer.
A significant figure in American abstract art, Shaw enjoyed a varied career as a writer and illustrator, poet, modernist painter, and collector. Born to a wealthy...
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| x Harold Morowitz | |||
| x Tom Perrotta |
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Little Children |
Thomas R. Perrotta (born August 13, 1961) is an Albanian-American novelist and screenwriter best known for his novels Election (1998) and Little Children (2004), both of which were made into critically acclaimed, Golden Globe-nominated films....
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| Election | |||
| Little Children | |||
| The Abstinence Teacher | |||
| Lit Riffs | |||
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| x Kenji Yoshino | The uncovered self |
Kenji Yoshino is a legal scholar and the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law. Formerly, he was the Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His work involves Constitutional law,...
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| Covering | |||
| Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights | |||
| x June Jordan | soulscript |
June Millicent Jordan (July 9, 1936 - June 14, 2002) was a Caribbean American poet, novelist, journalist, biographer, dramatist, teacher, and committed activist. In her three decade career Jordan made her mark as one of the fiercest and most...
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| Directed by desire | |||
| Kissing God goodbye | |||
| Naming our destiny | |||
| Soldier | |||
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| x Louis Auchincloss |
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The Cat and the King |
Louis Stanton Auchincloss (pronounced Awk-kin-claus; born September 27, 1917) is an American novelist, historian, and essayist.
Born in Lawrence, New York, Auchincloss was the son of Joseph Howland Auchincloss and Priscilla Dixon Stanton. His...
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| Her Infinite Variety | |||
| La gloire | |||
| The atonement, and other stories | |||
| Writers and Personality | |||
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| x Paul Krugman |
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The Conscience of a Liberal |
Paul Robin Krugman (pronounced /ˈkruːɡmən/; born February 28, 1953) is an American economist, liberal columnist and author. He is Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs,...
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| Peddling Prosperity | |||
| Der Mythos vom globalen Wirtschaftskrieg. Eine Abrechnung mit den Pop- Ökonomen. | |||
| Schmalspur- Ökonomie. Die 27 populärsten Irrtümer über Wirtschaft. | |||
| The Great Unraveling | |||
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| x Donald Grant Mitchell |
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My farm of Edgewood |
Donald Grant Mitchell (April 12, 1822 - December 15, 1908) was an American essayist and novelist.
Mitchell, the grandson of politician and jurist Stephen Mix Mitchell, was born in Norwich, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale College in 1841, where...
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| The Lorgnette | |||
| The Works Of Donald G. Mitchell | |||
| Reveries of a bachelor | |||
| Dream Life | |||
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| x Paul Monette |
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Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story |
Paul Monette (October 16, 1945 – February 10, 1995) was an American author, poet, and activist best remembered for his essays about gay relationships.
Monette was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and went on to graduate from Phillips Academy in 1963...
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| Borrowed Tiime | |||
| Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll | |||
| Sanctuary, A Tale of Life in the Woods | |||
| Afterlife | |||
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| x William Graham Sumner |
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Andrew Jackson As a Public Man |
William Graham Sumner (October 30, 1840 – April 12, 1910) was an American academic and professor at Yale College. For many years he had a reputation as one of the most influential teachers there. He was a polymath with numerous books and essays on...
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| The Financier And The Finances Of The American Revolution V1 | |||
| A history of American currency | |||
| The Forgotten Man and Other Essays | |||
| What Social Classes Owe to Each Other | |||
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| x James K. Galbraith |
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Unbearable Cost |
James K. Galbraith (born January 29, 1952) is an American economist who writes frequently for mainstream and liberal publications on economic topics.
The son of renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith and of Catherine (Kitty) Atwater Galbraith, he...
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| The Good Society | |||
| Created Unequal | |||
| Exchange of Favors in the Market for Influence (Working | |||
| Macroeconomics | |||
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| x Roger Clegg |
Roger Clegg is the President and General Counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity. Prior to joining the CEO Clegg served in a variety of capacities within both the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, including a position as Deputy...
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| x Edward Gaylord Bourne | History of the surplus revenue of 1837 |
Edward Gaylord Bourne, Ph. D. (June 24, 1860 – February 24, 1908) was an American historian , born in Strykersville, New York, and educated at Yale graduating in 1883 with high honors. He taught at Adelbert College, Cleveland from 1888 - 1895 when...
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| Columbus, Ramon Pane and the Beginnings of American Anthropology | |||
| Historical Introduction To The Philippine Islands | |||
| Spain in America, 1450-1580 | |||
| Proposed Absorption Of Mexico In 1847-48 | |||
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| x George Packer |
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Central Square: A Novel |
George Packer (born August 13, 1960) is an American journalist, novelist and playwright.
Packer's parents, Nancy Packer and Herbert Packer, were both academics at Stanford University; his maternal grandfather was George Huddleston, a congressman...
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| The Fight Is for Democracy | |||
| Blood of the liberals | |||
| The assassins' gate | |||
| The village of waiting | |||
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| x Theodore Salisbury Woolsey |
Theodore Salisbury Woolsey (October 22, 1852 – April 24, 1929) was an American legal scholar, born at New Haven, Conn., son of Theodore Dwight Woolsey. He graduated at Yale in 1872 and at Yale Law School (1876). After traveling in Europe he was...
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| x Ehrman Syme Nadal |
Ehrman Syme Nadal, A.M. (1843–1922) was an American author, born at Lewisburg, West Virginia. He graduated from Yale in 1864. His employment included serving as second secretary of the United States Legation at London in the 1870s, being on the...
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| x Richard Rorty |
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Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature |
Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher. He had a long and diverse career in Philosophy, Humanities, and Literature departments. His complex intellectual background gave him a comprehensive and nuanced...
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| Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity | |||
| The Concept of Potentiality | |||
| Kontingenz, Ironie und Solidarität | |||
| Truth and progress | |||
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| x Mark Strand |
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Blizzard of One |
Mark Strand (born 11 April 1934) is an American poet, essayist, and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990. Since 2005, he has been a professor of English at Columbia University.
Strand was...
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| Sargeantville notebook | |||
| Darker | |||
| Man and Camel | |||
| Donkere haven | |||
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| x Richard Ellmann |
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James Joyce |
Richard Ellmann (March 15, 1918 – May 13, 1987) was a prominent American literary critic and biographer of Irish writers such as James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats. Ellmann's James Joyce (1959), for which he won the National Book...
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| Odysseus in Dublin. | |||
| Yeats | |||
| Ulysses on the Liffey | |||
| Four Dubliners | |||
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