On how books were used as weapons.
By Meredith Hindley
On the private life of Emily Post.
By Meredith Hindley (Edited by)
On the elusive Cleopatra.
On the self-help career of grammarian Sherwin Cody.
By David Skinner (Edited by)
On the life of Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis.
By Meredith Hindley (edited by)
On the creative life of Orson Welles.
On scholarly communities in the digital age.
On the cosmopolitan Benjamin Franklin.
On the composers of Cabaret and Chicago.
On the man behind the Grinch.
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The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein
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