"One of the wisest men in American public life today." ―James Chace Accompany George Kennan as he explores his family's roots in the American past.George F. Kennan has forged one of the most illustrious careers in the annals of American letters and...

A biography of the poet discusses his friendships with other aspiring writers, painters, and musicians, his repressive family life, his need for affection and fear of the encroachment on his writing that marriage represented, and his work.

This volume celebrates more than a quarter-century of Hockney's work and forms a unique record of his hugely successful and astonishingly varied creative output from the late 1950's right up to the present.

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When John Dewey died in 1952, he was memorialized as America's most famous philosopher, revered by liberal educators and deplored by conservatives, but universally acknowledged as his country's intellectual voice. Many things conspired to give Dewey an...

In the late 1930s, a young man--turned out of his home--finds his fate on the vast Adirondack estate of one of the nation's wealthiest men, where several extraordinary men and women contribute to his education

Analyzing literature, architecture, and patterns of living, the author traces the persistent meanings of modernity, seeing in its chief concerns and expressions a will to change accompanied by a terror of life falling apart