All posts tagged "twentieth century"
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Biography
Book Review: Diaries by George Orwell
March 26, 2022Europe had yet to recover from the First World War and the Allied peoples were at...
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After Image
American Mythologies: Grant Wood at the RNC
March 25, 2022But, the painting tells us, to impose order is also to fictionalize, to distort. It’s a...
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Biography
Book Review: Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan
March 8, 2022The course of Curtis’ campaign to document the lives and life style of the Native American...
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Great Britain
After the Victorians by A.N. Wilson
October 13, 2021Like its predecessor, The Victorians, this book is a portrait of an age, rather than a...
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Biography
Book Review: George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
August 25, 2021George Frost Kennan was one of the most influential of all American diplomats, as well as...
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Books
Book Review: René Blum and the Ballets Russes by Judith Chazin-Bennahum
October 14, 2020All of Blum’s many accomplishments were bracketed between the anti-Semitic turmoil of the Dreyfus Affair that...
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Biography
Book Review: From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women, 1847-1928 by Julie P. Gelardi
September 16, 2020Following this betrayal, the Romanov dynasty was swept off the stage of history. Many of the...
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Classics
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
August 18, 2020Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
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Art
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
August 16, 2020Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
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History
Book Review: Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America by Erika Lee and Judy Yung
August 10, 2020For those who fell in the “only” 7 percent category, the decision to deport them was...
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