Word: bookings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first book, Madame Bovary, was not published until he was 36 years old. It brought him instant fame, when he was brought to trial on charges of "outrage to public and religious morals and morality...
This is particularly true since Lottman obviously did extensive research for the book. The entire narrative is framed around letters to and from Flaubert. Correspondance with his sister, his niece, his friends and his most notorious lover, Louise Colet, give flesh to what is otherwise largely a chronology...
...book should be commended for its accuracy and its flow. Although the dates, the detailed accounts of Flaubert's money problems and the cataloging of his often grotesque illnesses can be overwhelming at times, the author's life is by no means dull...
...1950s to the Guatemalan intervention in 1965 to the war in Vietnam. Fulbright's thoughtful policy analyses and objections earned him the animosity of some colleagues in the Senate, as well as some executive officials, but that seems to bother Fulbright little, if at all. He begins his new book The Price of Empire, "If I am remembered, I suppose it will be as a dissenter...
Fulbright's dissenting views about U.S. interventions have irked some policymakers in the past, but, more importantly, they have led to a creative understanding of the United States' role in the world. So when the former senator reflects on the current state of U.S. foreign policy in his new book, he is able to draw on a wealth of knowledge and experience. Littered with anecdotes, The Price of Empire is a series of enlightening reflections on the key points and trends in U.S. foreign policy since the Second World...