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A wide-ranging collection of essays by a contemporary critic and historian traces four decades of writing and considers such diverse topics as Beethoven, Kilimanjaro, and Britain's Imperial War Museum.
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This Living Hand: And Other Essays
2013, Random House Publishing Group
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Table of Contents
The Bumstitch : Lament for a Forgotten Fruit
How I Escaped Death by Snakebite : And Lived to Write About Beethoven
The CCurfew TTols the Knell of PPParting Day : Remembering Mr. Atkinson
The Last Snows of Kilimanjaro : A Lament
A Ghostly Tour With TR : The Badlands of North Dakota
Documenting the Intangible : The New York Public Library's Dance Collection
Heard Melodies Are Sweet, But Those Unheard Are Sweeter : A Low-Calorie Diet for the Musically Obese
Brutalities of Marriage : Otto Friedrich's Clover : The Tragic Love Story of Clover and Henry Adams
Theodore Roosevelt the Diplomat : Frederick W. Marks's Velvet on Iron
"Look, Mother, My Public!" : The Custody Trial of Gloria Vanderbilt
Theodore Roosevelt the Polygon : Address at the National Portrait Gallery
Wilson as Warmonger : Walter Karp's Politics of War
The Line of Concern : An Interview with Nadine Gordimer
A Strangeness in the Sight : The Shadow World of Tom Bostelle
The Pen Is Mightier than the Smith-Corona : Typing and the Murder of Style
Music v. Musicology : Donald Francis Tovey, Counsel for the Defense
Land of Lost Content : South Africa Revisited in the Last Days of Apartheid
Tiger in Sonic Cage : The Pianism of Vladimir Horowitz
Theodore Roosevelt the Writer : Colloquium at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars
Telling Lives : A Biographer's Quest for Temps Perdu
The Idea of North : Glenn Gould's Search for Solitude
A Hundred and Forty-Four Merlins : Britain's Imperial War Museum
We Came to America : The Irrevocable Act of Emigration
The Portraitist's Shadow : Biography as an Art
The Anticapitalist Conspiracy : A Warning
Every Sliver of Inlay Had to Fit : The Early Artistry of Evelyn Waugh
All Men Kill the Thing They Love : Bartle Bull's Safari
The Pain of Falling Leaves : Capitol Hill Loses a Tree
The Old Man Ought to Be Sad : The Logical Life of Mr. Justice Holmes
The Ivory and the Ebony : Pianists and the Romantic Imagination
Women in White : The Memoirs of Laura Junot, Duchesse d'Abrantes
TR Reincarnate : Archibald B. Roosevelt, Jr., 1918-1990
Undistinguished Americans : Short and Simple Annals of the Poor
Hunter of the Wild Guffaw : The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose
Which Way Does Sir Dress? : A Semicentennial Visit to Savile Row
The Rolling Tape Records, and Having Recorded, Rolls On : In Support of Janet Malcolm in Masson v. The New Yorker
From This Session Interdict : On the Eve of Another Presidential Inauguration
In Memoriam Christine Reagan : The President's Forgotten Daughter
This Living Hand : Ronald Reagan's Farewell Note
Rock. Turf. Water. Lava. Sky : Reykjavik in Retrospect
A Darwinian for Fun : The Evolutionary Education of Henry Adams
The Bill and Teddy Show : Mr. Clinton's Latest Presidential Performance
Pooh to You, Mr. Mayor : And Here's Fuzz in Your Eye, Mr. Prime Minister
A Certain Silliness : Ten Literati Choose the Century's Greatest English Novels
Billy Liar : Proceedings of an extraordinary meeting of the Ananias Club, Aug. 19, 1998, Theodore Roosevelt, chairman; Agenda: Admission to membership of President William Jefferson Clinton
Here Comes Old Rushing Starlight : The Writing Life
Tomb with a View : A Visit to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
Inside Jefferson's Cerebellum : The Library of Congress
Intellectual Integrity : The Novels of James Gould Cozzens
Sensitive Signage : Washington's Equal-Opportunity Airport
A Steady Hiss of Corn : The Letters of Ronald Reagan
Colonizing Outside of Cultivation : The Logical Fantasy of John Wyndham
The Ivo Pogorelich of Presidential Biography : Writing Dutch : A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
Leaving of a Life : Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1911-2004
Dot's and Dash's : Lynne Truss's Punctuation Primer
Lady of Letters : Living with Sylvia Jukes Morris
A Musical Offering : Bach and Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment
Behind the Glass Wall : "Mr. President, Feel My Pain!"
Contrapuntal Combat : Beethoven's Great Fugue
Wood and Wool : The Making of a Steinway Concert Grand
A Nation Full of Will : Kent School Connecticut Centennial Address, 2006
Nuages Gris : Colors in Music, Literature and Art
The Other Side of Silence : Beethoven's Deafness
The African Obama : The Prepresidential Photographs of Pete Souza
As Much of a Monologue as Possible : Theodore Roosevelt at 150
Voice, or Ventriloquism? : Language and the Presidency
Buffs v. Blues : Replay of The Election of 1910
The Adventures of Sam Clemens : Or, the Autobiography of Mark Twain
Manners Maketh Man : Ronald Reagan at 100
Edison Illluminated : The "Life & Phenomenon" of an Inventor.
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