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Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
one of his best-selling authors, Willard Huntington Wright, better known to hundreds of thousands of readers as S. S. Van Dine.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
The Valley’s venture investors were typically Boston merchant princes, men such as Israel Thorndike, S. A. Eliot, Samuel Cabot, Francis Stanton, and Harrison Gray Otis. Edmund Dwight, a Morgan cousin on his mother’s side, wasn’t in the same financial stratum as a Cabot, but gained access through his work at the law firm of Fisher Ames, the old Mass
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Introduced to a party of people who ignore their own chauffeur, he protests: “I have not met this gentleman
Edmund Morris • Edmund Morris - The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt-Random House
en.wikipedia.org • Thomas Sowell - Wikipedia
His change in plans, the decision to stay, came one year after his arrival, in September 1847, when he was offered the chair of natural history at the Lawrence Scientific School, an institution newly established at Harvard partly for the purpose of keeping him in the United States.
David McCullough • Brave Companions
The legacy was truly amazing. His work on fish, the initial research on glaciers, the impact of his writing on the Ice Age, the zest and glamour he brought to American culture at a critical moment, were all contributions of the first order. His beloved Museum of Comparative Zoology—the Agassiz Museum, or simply the Agassiz, as it came to be known i
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