Search

Reviews the book "The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Vol. 3: Birth of a New Age," edited by Clayborne Carson.

Reviews the book 'The Papers of William Woods Holden,' Volume I, 1841–1868, edited by Horace W. Raper and Thorn W. Mitchell.

The article reviews the book "Paper Route: Finding My Way to Precision Journalism," by Philip Meyer.

Reviews the book 'The Papers of John C. Calhoun: Volume XXVI, 1848–1849,' edited by Clyde N. Wilson.

Reviews the book 'The Frederick Douglas Papers. Series Two: Autobiographical Writings: Volume I,' edited by John W. Blassingame, John R. McKivigan and Peter P. Hinks.

Coates' debut biographical novel chronicles the life of modernist painter Agnes Lawrence Pelton (1881-1961). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book 'The Papers of General Lucius D. Clay: Germany 1945-1949,' Two Volumes, edited by Jean Edward Smith.

The article reviews the book "John Rawls: Collected Papers," edited by Samuel Freeman.

Reviews the book 'The Papers of George Catlett Marshall,' by George Marshall.

The article reviews the book "The Papers of Jefferson Davis, vol. 13: 1871–1879," edited by Lynda Lasswell Crist.

Reviews the book 'The Papers of Henry Laurens. Volume XV: December 11, 1778–August 31, 1782,' edited by David R. Chesnutt and C. James Taylor.

Reviews the book 'The Correspondence and Other Papers of James Boswell relating to the Making of the 'Life of Johnson',' edited by Marshall Waingrow.

Reviews the book 'The Papers of Joseph Henry,' Volume 3: The Princeton Years 1836 and 1837, edited by Nathan Reingold.

Reviews the book 'The Durham Thomas Harriot Seminar Occasional Papers Nos. 1-3.'

A review of the book "Letters and Papers From Prison," part of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English Edition series, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, edited by Christian Gremmels and John W. de Gruchy, is presented.

A review of the book "Dietrich Bonhoeffer's 'Letters and Papers From Prison': A Biography," part of the Lives of Great Religious Books Series, by Martin E. Marty, is presented.

The article reviews the book "The Paper Garden: Mrs Delany Begins Her Life's Work at 72," by Molly Peacock.

Reviews the book 'Works on Paper: The Craft of Biography and Autobiography,' by Michael Holroyd.

Reviews the book 'The Collected Papers of Charles Darwin,' edited by Paul H. Barrett.

Reviews the book 'The John Carroll Papers,' by John Carroll.

Reviews the book 'Paper Medicine Man: John Gregory Bourke and His American West,' by Joseph C. Porter.

Reviews the book 'Inventory of the Papers of Pieter Zeeman (1865–1943), Physicist and Nobel Prize Winner, c. 1877–1946,' by P.J.M. Velthhuys-Bechtold.

Reviews the book 'Brandeis: An Intimate Biography of One of America's Truly Great Supreme Court Justices,' by Lewis J. Paper.

Reviews the book 'The Red Count: The Life and Times of Harry Kessler,' by Laird M. Easton.

Reviews the book 'T.R. Malthus: The Unpublished Papers in the Collection of Kanto Gakuen University,' edited by John Pullen and Trevor Hughes Perry.

Doris Langley Moore, author of two widely-acclaimed books about Byron, has now written the first full biography of Ada Augusta, which is published by the firm of John Murray, Byron's own publisher and friend. Her excellent biography is based on a vast mass of documents, few of which have been published previously. Rather remarkably, she does not mention Bowden's pioneering studies. Fifteen portraits form a valuable part of the biography. The reader who studies this appalling family history will be likely to agree that, had it not been for Ada's 1843 paper on computer programming, the entire tribe of Byron's descendants and relatives throughout the 19th century should have been left mercifully in the oblivion which they so richly deserve. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book 'John Carroll Recovered: Abstracts of Letters and Other Documents Not Found in the John Carroll Papers,' by Thomas W. Spalding and Paul K. Thomas.

The article reviews the book "Życie przecięte: Opowieści pokolenia Marca (Life Cut in Half: Stories From the March Generation)," by Joanna Wiszniewicz.

Reviews the book 'Grolier 2000: A Further Grolier Club Biographical Retrospective in Celebration of the Millennium 2000,' introduced by G. Thomas Tanselle.

Reviews the book 'By His Own Labor: The Biography of Dard Hunter,' by Cathleen A. Baker.

Biography, according to Thomas Carlyle, 'is by nature the most universally profitable, universally pleasant of all things: especially biography of distinguished individuals'. Of William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin), it can truly be said that he was one such distinguished individual whose ability to combine pure science and technology placed him among the foremost of Victorian men of science and engineering. Not since S. P. Thompson's two-volume life-and-letters The life of William Thomson, Boron Kelvin of Largs (London: Macmillan, 1910) has there been a study of his life, and therefore it is with eager expectation that the student of Victorian science opens Sharlin's book. Although a high degree of selection is inevitable, and indeed desirable, in the treatment of an outstanding physicist whose intellectual life extended over a period longer than the entire reign of Queen Victoria, and whose works ran to over 660 published papers, Sharlin's account is distinctly superficial from several angles. While he has touched upon a large number of interesting and important aspects of Thomson's life and work, the biography has no sustained analysis of major themes. Furthermore, although the reader is constantly reminded of Thomson's undoubted genius and achievements, there are few real attempts to provide a solidly integrated study of the many and varied facets of his life. Let us therefore examine some of the defects in more detail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book 'John Jay: the making of a revolutionary, unpublished papers 1745-1780,' edited by Richard Morris.

The article reviews the book "A Russian Merchant's Tale: The Life and Adventures of Ivan Alekseevich Tolchënov, Based on His Diary," by David L. Ransel.

The article reviews the book "Dashkova: A Life of Influence and Exile," by Alexander Woronzoff-Dashkova.

A review of the book "Red Autobiographies: Initiating the Bolshevik Self," by Igal Halfin, as part of the "Donald W. Treadgold Studies on Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia" series, is presented.