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batter,”
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
contretemps
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
John Henry Newman,
Joseph Bottum • An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America
But Thomas Hart, who still feared death’s sting, was grieving in his pew under the halted moons. Weak light shone on the brass plaque bolted to the coffin: ANNE MARGARET MACAULAY. So that varnished pine contained her flushed cheeks, walking shoes, prudence, preference for Yorkshire tea, shyness, cuttings of African violet, habit of testing the heat
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the most dramatic and least sophisticated.
Martin Amis • The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (Vintage International)
uncritically by the press,
Malcolm Jeeves • Minds, Brains, Souls and Gods: A Conversation on Faith, Psychology and Neuroscience
interlopers like Sir Edward Michelborne
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
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