In this groundbreaking portrait of Samuel Johnson, Nokes positions the great thinker in his rightful place as an active force in the Enlightenment, not a mere recorder or performer, and demonstrates how his interaction with life impacted ...
They Left Us Everything is a funny, touching memoir about the importance of preserving family history to make sense of the past, and nurturing family bonds to safeguard the future.
Jeffrey Meyers tells the extraordinary story of Samuel Johnson one of the most illustrious figures of English literary tradition.
The author of the masterly volumes Intellectuals, Creators, and Heroes returns with a collection of biographical portraits of the greatest humorists and wits in history.
... in author's possession . 90. William Johnson , " The UNITE - HERE Merger : Is It a Step Forward ... or Busi- ness as Usual ? ” Labor Notes , April 2004 . 91. Bill Fletcher Jr. and Fernando Gapasin , Solidarity Divided : The Crisis in ...
Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of “the Club,” a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel ...
A new memoir by the author of Minor Characters provides a unique female perspective on the dramatic implications of growing up fatherless, from her birth, childhood, and youth without a male figure in her life, through her unsuccessful ...
... in author's Tales Out of Oregon . ) Trappers and traders blazed trails thru the thickets of what became downtown ... William Johnson , sailor of the War of 1812 , independent trapper , and first bootlegger in the Oregon Country ...
... Johnson, William Johnson's Natchez, 260; VHD to JD, 23 Feb. 1866, VHD to William B. Howell, 11 Apr. 1845, VHD to Margaret Howell, 13 Dec. 1847, JD Pa- pers, AL. 42. Johnson, eds., William Johnson's Natchez,333 n. 7, 334 n. 9; James ...
... William Johnson's Natchez , 2 : 763 , 1 : 351 ; Daily Savannah Republican , 23 January 1847 , stnt , in author's possession ; Saxon , Old Louisiana , 239 ; Crofts , Cobb's Ordeal , 121 ; Escott , North Carolina Yeoman , 205 ; Thayer ...