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John McGahern was the most admired Irish novelist of the past fifty years. His        accessible fiction won him a wide readership throughout Ireland, but the        accomplishment of his craft ensured that he also became known as a writer's writer.          He set his novels in places he knew intimately-Dublin, London, and the West...

A Very Short IntroductionBeginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, garnered from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, Doyle leads the reader to the realization that we are still living with developments of the French Revolution. It destroyed the age-old cultural, institutional and social structures in France and...

The story of Joseph Clark Grew (1880-1965) is the story of the modern American        diplomatic tradition. Grew served the U.S. government for over forty years, with an        impressive career that included two ambassadorships, two secretaryships, two        ministerships, and every junior rank in the service. Grew was in Berlin when...

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Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second CenturyGary Giddins&'s magnificent book Visions of Jazz has been hailed as a landmark in music criticism. Jonathan Yardley in The Washington Post called it "e;the definitive compendium by the most interesting jazz critic now at work."e; And Alfred Appel, Jr., in The New York Times Book Review, said it was...

The Quick Writing ProcessMost writing is done under pressure. An executive has to produce a three-page position paper by tomorrow at nine. A department head suddenly has to write a one-page action memo by noon. A graduate student has a twenty-page research paper due in a week. Yet, while most students and professionals write under pressure--with...