Word: federick
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...biography ever written, is a task that appears to damn the writer before his ink meets paper. All the more so if one considers that Frank Brady's new book on Boswell's later years completes the cycle started with the 1966 study of Boswell's early years by Federick Pottle, the most esteemed Boswell scholar in literary history. Yet Johnson, who himself overcame a lifetime of adversity, might well have admired a man who persevered despite such an intimidating legacy. Brady's years spent scrutinizing the Boswell papers at Yale, his close association with Pottle, and his obvious affection...
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