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NONFICTION: Fin-de-Siecle Vienna, Carl E. Schorske ∙ My Many Years, Arthur Rubinstein ∙ Self Portrait with Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton, edited by Richard Buckle ∙ Show People, Kenneth Tynan ∙ The Falcon and the Snowman, Robert Lindsey ∙ The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe ∙ White House Years, Henry Kissinger
NONFICTION: Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Carl E. Schorske ∙My Many Years, Arthur Rubinstein ∙Show People, Kenneth Tynan ∙The Falcon and the Snowman, Robert Lindsey ∙The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe ∙The Russian Empire, Chloe Obolensky White House Years, Henry Kissinger
...FIN-DE-SIECLE VIENNA: POLITICS AND CULTURE by Carl E. Schorske Knopf; 378 pages; illustrated...
...admired, studied and perfected by an Austrian named Adolf Hitler. The powerful impulses sent out from turn-of-the-century Vienna have made it difficult to imagine the place as it actually was, to sense how and why people converged there in ways that would alter the world. In Fin-de-Siecle Vienna, Historian Carl E. Schorske gives the city back to itself. The book's seven related essays carefully reconstruct a Vienna of bricks and beliefs, a real place building toward a surreal destiny...
...vivace as the music he has written for every mode from concert hall to films over half a century. Tendered a birthday party at Brentano's bookstore in Manhattan, Thomson ignored the limousine that had been sent to fetch him from his apartment in the fin de siècle Chelsea Hotel and marched to the festivities on his own. He also chose stairs instead of an elevator and a hard chair rather than a soft one, but he did consent to pose at the piano with his cake and a group of fellow musicians that included Conductor Andr...