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Lost Autobiography of Samuel Steward Recollections of an Extraordinary Twentieth-Century Gay Life

Steward Samuel

ISBN: PB: 9780226541419, ISBN: HB: 9780226520346, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

On August 21, 1978, a year before his seventieth birthday, Samuel Steward (1909-1993) sat down at his typewriter in Berkeley, California, and began to compose a remarkable autobiography. No one but his closest friends knew the many different identiti...

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Sport

Ultramarathon Mom From the Sahara to the Arctic

Zimmermann Holly

ISBN: PB: 9781782551393, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, March 2018
320 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 102 black&white illus.

Holly Zimmermann, mother of four, has endeavored to take on some of the world's most difficult and dangerous foot races. A grueling 160-mile ultramarathon through the Sahara Desert is the core of her story. Tales of running under a scorching sun, li...

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Biography & Memoires

Whistler A Life for Art's Sake

Sutherland Daniel E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300232639, ISBN: HB: 9780300203462, Yale University Press, March 2018
432 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, 12 colour images, 94 black&white illus.

This first biography in more than twenty years of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) is also the first to make extensive use of the artist's private correspondence to tell the story of his life and work. This engaging personal history dispels the pop...

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Biography & Memoires

History of Art

Whistler's Mother Portrait of an Extraordinary Life

Sutherland Daniel E., Toutziari Georgia

ISBN: HB: 9780300229684, Yale University Press, March 2018
254 pp., 23.3x15.6 cm, 60 colour and black&white illus.

Judged by the portrait Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1 (1871), painted by her son James McNeill Whistler, Anna Whistler (1804-1881) appears to have been a pious, unassuming, domestic woman. This characterization, however, is far from the whole tr...

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Biography & Memoires

Frederick Douglass Papers, Volume 2, Series 3 Correspondence, 1853-1865

Douglass Frederick, McKivigan John R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300218305, Yale University Press, March 2018
720 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.

The second collection of meticulously edited correspondence with abolitionist, author, statesman, and former slave Frederick Douglass covers the years leading up to the Civil War through the close of the conflict, offering readers an illuminating por...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Henry the Young King, 1155-1183

Strickland Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9780300232875, Yale University Press, March 2018
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This first modern study of Henry the Young King, eldest son of Henry II but the least known Plantagenet monarch, explores the brief but eventful life of the only English ruler after the Norman Conquest to be created co-ruler in his father's lifetime....

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Film Studies

Steven Spielberg A Life in Films

Haskell Molly

ISBN: PB: 9780300234473, ISBN: HB: 9780300186932, Yale University Press, March 2018
248 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

A film-centric portrait of the extraordinarily gifted movie director whose decades – long influence on American popular culture is unprecedented. "Everything about me is in my films", Steven Spielberg has said. Taking this as a key to understanding t...

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Philosophy

Biography & Memoires

Young Descartes Nobility, Rumor, and War

Cook Harold J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226462967, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 2 line drawings

Rene Descartes is best known as the man who coined the phrase "I think, therefore I am". But though he is remembered most as a thinker, Descartes, the man, was no disembodied mind, theorizing at great remove from the worldly affairs and concerns of h...

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Reference

Biography & Memoires

Behind the Book Eleven Authors on Their Path to Publication

Jones Chris Mackenzie

ISBN: PB: 9780226405803, ISBN: HB: 9780226405773, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

Every book has a story of its own, a path leading from the initial idea that sparked it to its emergence into the world in published form. No two books follow quite the same path, but all are shaped by a similar array of market forces and writing cr...

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Europe

Biography & Memoires

Complete Maisky Diaries: 1932-1943 Volumes 1-3

Maisky Ivan, Gorodetsky Gabriel, Sorokina Tatiana, Ready Oliver

ISBN: HB: 9780300117820, Yale University Press, February 2018
1672 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 131 black&white illus.

Confiscated by Soviet authorities in the 1950s, the diaries of Ivan Maisky, the USSR's ambassador to Great Britain from 1932 to 1943, have been unearthed, annotated, and edited for publication in a three-volume set that Niall Ferguson predicts "will...

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