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Ronald Reagan may have been the most prolific correspondent of any American president since Theodore Roosevelt, having likely written more than 10,000 letters in his lifetime to a wide array of friends and family, politicians, private citizens, and children. As vivid a communicator in words as he was in person, Reagan reveals his character and thinking in his writings as nowhere else. In his correspondence, Reagan made candid, considerate, and tough statements that he rarely made in public, and often gave...
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Organized chronologically, this correspondence--edited by eminent Fitzgerald scholar Bruccoli and freelance writer, Baughman--offers an accessible self-portrait of the writer (1896-1940). Early letters to his editor, Maxwell Perkins, and friends, Edmund Wilson and Ernest Hemingway, document Fitzgerald's devotion to craft, exemplified by The Great Gatsby (1925), as well as the novelist's ever-present financial problems, which kept him churning out short stories for the magazine market. Letters to...
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Description Using revealing excerpts from his letters (over 1000 of them) through the years, the authors trace Ronald Reagan's biography. Reagan's letters--which range from encouraging advice for his son to friendly exchanges with an African-American pen pal--provide insights into his views on marriage, Hollywood, American politics in general, and the conservative agenda in particular. His correspondents include Ella Fitzgerald, George Bush, Dr. Spock, Mickey Rooney, Richard Nixon, and Margaret Thatcher...
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A Life in Letters (Penguin Classics)
The letters of one of the world’s greatest composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—seen variously as a child prodigy, musical genius, tragic Romantic artist, and cultural icon—is among the most written-about of all composers. This fascinating set of his letters offers a new understanding of his life story—his marriage, compositions, performances, occasional money worries, opinions of fellow musicians, and complex relationship with his father—and a revealing portrait of both the man and the musician.
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From his teenage years in provincial Russia to his premature death in 1904, Anton Chekhov wrote thousands of letters to a wide range of correspondents. This fascinating new selection tells Chekhov's story as a man and a writer through affectionate bulletins to his family, insightful discussions of literature with publishers and theater directors, and tender love letters to his actress wife. Vividly evoking landscapes, people, and his daily life, the letters offer revealing glimpses into Chekhov's...
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What is not so widely known as his storied accomplishments on stage and screen is that Gielgud was a meticulous and enthusiastic letter writer. From thousands of letters, beginning with those to his mother when he was an aspiring but still unknown actor, the editor has chosen these nine hundred gems, which span a period of eighty years. In them, Gielgud writes candidly about his friends and colleagues, many of whom - Garbo, Olivier, Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, James Mason, Charlie Chaplin, and Richard...
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A Life in Letters, 1914-1982 (Hardcover)
Perhaps the greatest scholar of Jewish mysticism in the twentieth century, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) once said of himself, "I have no biography, only a bibliography." Yet, in thousands of letters written over his lifetime, Scholem's biography does unfold, inscribing a life that epitomized the intellectual ferment and political drama of an era. This selection of the best and most representative letters--drawn from the 3000 page German edition--gives readers an intimate view of this remarkable man...
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A Life in Letters
A Life in Letters F. Scott Fitzgerald`s life is revealed in 200 illuminating letters, selected and edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Buying Guides How To Start a Book Club FAQs About Banned Books How To Create Your Own Reading List Tips on Selecting the Perfect Entertainment Gift
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First Fromm paperback edition. Translated from the German by Craig Tomlinson. Light foxing on the edges else fine in wrappers.
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"Perhaps the greatest scholar of Jewish mysticism in the twentieth century, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) once said of himself, "I have no biography, only a bibliography." Yet, in thousands of letters written over his lifetime, Scholem's biography does unfold, inscribing a life that epitomized the intellectual ferment and political drama of an era. This selection of the best and most representative letters - drawn from the three-volume German edition - gives readers an intimate view of this remarkable...
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A fascinating look at Frederick the Great reveals the often misunderstood king as not only a feared conqueror, but also a patron of the arts and a progressive lawmaker who helped make Berlin one of Europe's great capital cities. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck was a prolific correspondent. Opening with letters written during Steinbeck's early years in California, and closing with an unfinished, 1968 note written in Sag Harbor, New York, this collection of around 850 letters to friends, family, his editor and a diverse circle of well-known and influential public figures gives an insight into the raw creative processes of one of the most naturally-gifted and hard-working writing minds of this century.
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David, a research fellow at Hebrew University in Israel, has ably translated and edited a wide-ranging selection of letters from the life of this master scholar of Jewish mysticism. Most of the letters (only a fraction of those extant) appear here in English for the first time. David's selection illuminates a question that has always haunted readers of Scholem (1897-1982): How did the personality of this overly dignified and self-confident academic relate to the unbridled otherworldliness...
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Important selections from her highly personal correspondence, 1929-1991, published for first time ever.
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America's most beloved columnist shares forty years of advice through letters to her daughter, collected here for the first time. This is simply a collection of a mother's letters to her only daughter--except that the mother is Ann Landers Esther "Eppie" Lederer , one of America's most famous letter writers. The letters span her daughter Margo's adult life--from marriages and divorces to growing up and growing old--all against a backdrop of warp speed changes taking place in American society between...
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The letters of one of the worldâs greatest composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartâseen variously as a child prodigy, musical genius, tragic Romantic artist, and cultural iconâis among the most written-about of all composers. This fascinating set of his letters offers a new understanding of his life storyâhis marriage, compositions, performances, occasional money worries, opinions of fellow musicians, and complex relationship with his fatherâand a revealing portrait of both the man and the musician...
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Juliet Barker THE BRONTES: A Life in Letters Overlook Press, Woodstock, 1998. half cloth. First Edition. 415pp: Following her respected biography of the Brontes, Barker here presents a literary conversation among the Brante sisters and with their family and friends through a sequence of letters. A very fine copy, unread and unmarked. Fine. Fine. 0879518383. [Item #22662] Price: $25.00
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Leigh Hunt: A Life in Letters - Together With Some Correspondence of William Hazlitt
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All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings
Former president George Bush has no plans to write his autobiography, so this collection of letters, diary entries, and...
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In these pages, Fisher's letters are made public for the first time. Selected and compiled by her younger sister, her longtime secretary, and a close family friend, these highly personal pieces reveal some of Fisher's most private moments, giving ample display to her sharp wit and affectionate humor, her ongoing reflections on loss and the power of change. Six decades of correspondence sketch the story of a young adult who shouldered enormous domestic responsibilities as daughter, mother, and wife...
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A New Collection Edited and Annotated by Matthew J. Bruccoli
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M.f.k. Fisher: A Life In Letters: Correspondence 1929-1991
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