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Language
English
Description
In July 1947, fresh out of college and long before he would win the Pulitzer Prize and become known as one of America's finest historians, Stanley Karnow boarded a freighter bound for France, planning to stay for the summer. He stayed for ten years, first as a student and later as a correspondent for Time magazine. By the time he left, Karnow knew Paris so intimately that his French colleagues dubbed him "le plus parisien des Américains"...
11) Papers
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
1950-<2004>
Physical Desc
volumes <1-31> : illustrations, portraits, maps, facsimiles ; 25 cm
Language
English
13) Brave New World
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Towering classic of dystopian satire, BRAVE NEW WORLD is a brilliant and terrifying vision of a soulless society--and of one man who discovers the human costs of mindless conformity. Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members, shaped by genetic engineering and behavioral conditioning, are productive and content in roles they have been assigned at conception. Government-sanctioned drugs and...
14) Washington
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
[1986]
Physical Desc
xvi, 272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1930s Australia A disgraced Minister, an unidentified corpse, and an scorned ex-flame all bring their own special type of bedlam in this newest addition to this politically thrilling historical mystery series by Sulari Gentill. When Rowland Sinclair volunteers his services as a pilot to fly the renowned international peace advocate, Egon Kisch, between Fremantle and Melbourne, he is unaware of how dangerous the mission will be. Sinclair not only...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 1,122 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A compilation of essays and nonfiction writings spanning more than forty years includes the author's reflections on politics, lifestyle, place, and cultural figures, including such topics as Haight-Ashbury, the Manson family, the Black Panthers, California earthquakes, and Bill Clinton.
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