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As a fledgling writer in Paris, Hemingway intuitively felt a double betrayal of language and ideals. The first thing the Lost Generation lost was its faith in words, big words. Says Lieut. Henry, the hero of A Farewell to Arms: "I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and...
The Age of Reason, by Harold Nicolson. Catherine the Great, Jonathan Swift, John Wesley and a score of other 18th century movers and shapers are laved in the warm glow of idiosyncrasy rather than the cold light of 100% accuracy. The author writes in the witty and amusing fashion of...
The Facts of Life. The age was often out of character but never out of characters. That is what fascinates Harold Nicolson, who scants history for personality, and arranges his book as a gallery of portraits bathed in the warm glow of idiosyncrasy rather than the cold light of 100...
As French Ambassador to Lisbon in 1561, Diplomat Jean Nicot failed in his mission to marry off Queen Catherine de Medici's daughter to the King of Portugal. But Nicot won royal favor all the same by picking up in Lisbon an American weed whose most important ingredient today...
¶ Russia, by Charles W. Thayer. Author Thayer, an old diplomatic hand at the Kremlin from the early days of the five-year plans, has a feeling for the steppe-like sweep of Russian history and offers a carefully balanced account of the Soviet regime. He places Stalin in the...