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...which is elaborate, delicately colorful, at times moving. His impressions of Angkor Wat in French IndoChina and the Forbidden City in Peking have an atmosphere such as might now be found in the report of a traveler of the Fifth Century A. D. who first examined the ruins of Babylon and then went on to live in the decaying grandeur of Rome...
...WATERS OF BABYLON - Robert Neumann-Simon & Schuster...
...Native Son, it was written with passion called forth by human wrong. But in Neumann's case that wrong is more complex, less local, more profound: it is the story of the Jews of Europe, of whom Vienna-born Neumann is one. By the Waters of Babylon is perhaps his masterpiece, perhaps theirs...
...Coolidge file of Frank W. Stearns, Boston department store tycoon and Coolidge's political deus ex machina; he talked to dozens who knew Coolidge. For his labors, Biographer Fuess has assembled more facts than did his livelier rival, William Allen White, whose Coolidge biography, A Puritan in Babylon, was published...
Joachim of Babylon...