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NONFICTION: American Dreams, Studs Terkel ∙ Merton: A Biography, Monica Furlong ∙ Naming Names, Victor Navasky ∙ The Girl I Left Behind, Jane O'Reilly ∙ The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Mark Amory ∙ Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan ∙ Vladimir Nabokov: Lectures on Literature, edited by Fredson Bowers
NONFICTION: American Dreams: Lost and Found, Studs Terkel Merton: A Biography, Monica Furlong ∙Naming Names, Victor Navasky ∙The Girl I Left Behind, Jane O'Reilly ∙The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Mark Amory ∙Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan ∙Vladimir Nabokov: Lectures on Literature, edited by Fredson Bowers
...empty pool. Downtown, the old Woodward & Lothrop department store looks as handsome as ever, with its polished wood everywhere. Streets are lined with wig emporiums and phrenologists. The National Portrait Gallery is located in the old U.S. Patent Office that doubled as a makeshift hospital during the Civil War. Walt Whitman wrote of soldiers dying there between the rows of inventions. The Phillips Collection at 21st and Q is still a great place to be alone with a painting. Yet a lot of the best in Washington is new, including a clean, safe subway and a hockey team that...
...Walt Whitman called it "the Presidentiad." Woodrow Wilson referred to it as a "great and solemn referendum." The average voter, whoever he may be, looks on it as a recognition of his own importance. The cynic may think it a waste of good time and money, but the patriot leaps to the ballot box with an unholy joy shining...
...writers. Milosz went underground in Warsaw where he battled the Germans with a clandestine press, firing the spirit of resistance with articles and anti-Nazi poetry. From 1946 to 1950, he served in Washington and Paris as a member of Warsaw's diplomatic corps. He translated T.S. Eliot, Walt Whitman and Carl Sandburg and wrote articles for the Polish press. But all was not well between the private and public man. Having escaped Hitler's oppression, Milosz now felt hemmed in by the Stalinist monolith. In 1951 he broke with the regime and became an exile in Paris...