Word: justines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess Italian Folktales, selected and retold by Italo Calvino -The Middle Ground, Margaret Drabble NONFICTION: American Dreams, Studs Terkel -The Magazine Maze, Herbert R. Mayes - Naming Names, Victor Navasky -Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan - "Watch Out for the Foreign Guests!" Orville Schell Ways of Escape, Graham Greene Wayward Reporter: The Life of A.J.Liebling, Raymond Sokolov
...where Richard Nixon often visited. They were joined by 60 friends to usher in the New Year. The next day, the Reagans went to a party at the Eldorado Country Club, where President Dwight D. Eisenhower spent his winters after leaving office. Reagan's hosts were California Tycoons Justin Dart and Jack Wrather; the guests included Attorney General-designate William French Smith, Standard Oil of Indiana Chairman John Swearingen and Comedian Bob Hope...
NONFICTION: American Dreams, Studs Terkel ∙ The Girl I Left Behind, Jane O'Reilly ∙ Merton: A Biography, Monica Furlong ∙ Naming Names, Victor Navasky ∙ Vladimir Nabokov: Lectures on Literature, edited by Fredson Bowers ∙ Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan ∙ Wayward Reporter: The Life of A.J. Liebling, Raymond Sokolov...
...Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel. The dean of U.S. pundits revealed as a fallible man. American Dreams: Lost and Found by Studs Terkel. The latest chorus of voices of hope and trouble, edited and affectionately arranged by the oral historian. Walt Whitman: A Life by Justin Kaplan. A thorough, artful analysis of the first all-American poet, by the author of the Pulitzer prizewinning Mister Clemens and Mark Twain...
...study Walt Whitman is to examine 19th century America, amidst its industrial clacking, economic growing pains, and political and social tension. Justin Kaplan appropriately spends a good part of his splendid biography creating the contexts for Whitman's experiences. On May 31, 1819, Kaplan tells us, Napoleon was dying of cancer on St. Helena, Virginian James Monroe was strutting about a rebuilt White House in knee breeches, a financial panic was threatening the young nation--and Walter and Louisa Whitman had their second child, named after his father but always called "Walt" by members of the family...