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Charles Ives: A Life with Music
Jan Swafford
Paperback
An illuminating portrait of a man whose innovative works profoundly influenced the course of twentieth-century American classical music.
Recovering: A Journal
May Sarton
Paperback
"Sarton's 'art of making exquisite distinctions' and her vulnerability as a human being are her timeless gifts to her readers." —Library Journal
Robert E. Lee: A Biography
Emory M. Thomas
Paperback
"The best and most balanced of the Lee biographies."—New York Review of Books
John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism
Alan Ryan, Edwin Burrage Child
Paperback
When John Dewey died in 1952, he was memorialized as America's most famous philosopher, revered by liberal educators and deplored by conservatives,...
Frederick Douglass
William S. McFeely
Paperback
“A masterpiece….[W]ill rightfully assume its place as the standard biography of a truly great figure in the nation’s past.” —New York Newsday