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...become Harry Potter for grownups. Each new book was a heavily anticipated publishing event among not only weekend sailors but also people whose only prior encounter with seafaring had been Sloop John B. By now 8 million copies have been sold. And at O'Brian's death in 2000, William F. Buckley called him "the most evocative writer on the sea since Homer...
...anti-Semitism, demagoguery and racism. Oney's account, backed by 17 years of research, is the most comprehensive and detailed yet. The book teems with fresh information, notably about the identities and later careers of the lynchers. The most poignant of its gallery of portraits is of anguished lawyer William Smith, whose black, lowlife client was Frank's chief accuser but who, Smith decided, was probably the murderer. If, in its exhaustive thoroughness, Oney's narrative meanders, it does so like a vast river: cumulatively it moves with a steady, somber power. --By Christopher Porterfield
Founded in 1901 by Kuno Francke, a Harvard professor of German literature, the museum officially opened on Nov. 10, 1903 with the full support of Harvard’s then-president Charles William Eliot, who deems “German as important to the modern economic world as Latin was to the classical ages...
...William L. Fash Jr., Bowditch professor of Central American and Mexican archeology and ethnology, will replace Rubie S. Watson as the second Howells Director of the Peabody Museum on January...
According to Fash, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby wants him to continue as an active teacher and researcher. Fash currently co-teaches the popular Foreign Cultures 34, “Mesoamerican Civilizations” with David L. Carrasco, Rudestine professor of the study of Latin America...