This living hand
Subtitle: and other essays
By: Edmund Morris
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 497
ISBN-13: 9780812993127; 9780679644668
Subjects: Literature; Music; Authorship; Presidents; History and criticism; Biography
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: The Bumstitch : Lament for a Forgotten Fruit; title: How I Escaped Death by Snakebite : And Lived to Write About Beethoven; title: The CCurfew TTols the Knell of PPParting Day : Remembering Mr. Atkinson; title: The Last Snows of Kilimanjaro : A Lament; title: A Ghostly Tour With TR : The Badlands of North Dakota; title: Documenting the Intangible : The New York Public Library's Dance Collection; title: Heard Melodies Are Sweet, But Those Unheard Are Sweeter : A Low-Calorie Diet for the Musically Obese; title: Brutalities of Marriage : Otto Friedrich's Clover : The Tragic Love Story of Clover and Henry Adams; title: Theodore Roosevelt the Diplomat : Frederick W. Marks's Velvet on Iron; title: "Look, Mother, My Public!" : The Custody Trial of Gloria Vanderbilt; title: Theodore Roosevelt the Polygon : Address at the National Portrait Gallery; title: Wilson as Warmonger : Walter Karp's Politics of War; title: The Line of Concern : An Interview with Nadine Gordimer; title: A Strangeness in the Sight : The Shadow World of Tom Bostelle; title: The Pen Is Mightier than the Smith-Corona : Typing and the Murder of Style; title: Music v. Musicology : Donald Francis Tovey, Counsel for the Defense; title: Land of Lost Content : South Africa Revisited in the Last Days of Apartheid; title: Tiger in Sonic Cage : The Pianism of Vladimir Horowitz; title: Theodore Roosevelt the Writer : Colloquium at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars; title: Telling Lives : A Biographer's Quest for Temps Perdu; title: The Idea of North : Glenn Gould's Search for Solitude; title: A Hundred and Forty-Four Merlins : Britain's Imperial War Museum; title: We Came to America : The Irrevocable Act of Emigration; title: The Portraitist's Shadow : Biography as an Art; title: The Anticapitalist Conspiracy : A Warning; title: Every Sliver of Inlay Had to Fit : The Early Artistry of Evelyn Waugh; title: All Men Kill the Thing They Love : Bartle Bull's Safari; title: The Pain of Falling Leaves : Capitol Hill Loses a Tree; title: The Old Man Ought to Be Sad : The Logical Life of Mr. Justice Holmes; title: The Ivory and the Ebony : Pianists and the Romantic Imagination; title: Women in White : The Memoirs of Laura Junot, Duchesse d'Abrantes; title: TR Reincarnate : Archibald B. Roosevelt, Jr., 1918-1990; title: Undistinguished Americans : Short and Simple Annals of the Poor; title: Hunter of the Wild Guffaw : The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose; title: Which Way Does Sir Dress? : A Semicentennial Visit to Savile Row; title: The Rolling Tape Records, and Having Recorded, Rolls On : In Support of Janet Malcolm in Masson v. The New Yorker; title: From This Session Interdict : On the Eve of Another Presidential Inauguration; title: In Memoriam Christine Reagan : The President's Forgotten Daughter; title: This Living Hand : Ronald Reagan's Farewell Note; title: Rock. Turf. Water. Lava. Sky : Reykjavik in Retrospect; title: A Darwinian for Fun : The Evolutionary Education of Henry Adams; title: The Bill and Teddy Show : Mr. Clinton's Latest Presidential Performance; title: Pooh to You, Mr. Mayor : And Here's Fuzz in Your Eye, Mr. Prime Minister; title: A Certain Silliness : Ten Literati Choose the Century's Greatest English Novels; title: 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; title: Here Comes Old Rushing Starlight : The Writing Life; title: Tomb with a View : A Visit to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library; title: Inside Jefferson's Cerebellum : The Library of Congress; title: Intellectual Integrity : The Novels of James Gould Cozzens; title: Sensitive Signage : Washington's Equal-Opportunity Airport; title: A Steady Hiss of Corn : The Letters of Ronald Reagan; title: Colonizing Outside of Cultivation : The Logical Fantasy of John Wyndham; title: The Ivo Pogorelich of Presidential Biography : Writing Dutch : A Memoir of Ronald Reagan; title: Leaving of a Life : Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1911-2004; title: Dot's and Dash's : Lynne Truss's Punctuation Primer; title: Lady of Letters : Living with Sylvia Jukes Morris; title: A Musical Offering : Bach and Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment; title: Behind the Glass Wall : "Mr. President, Feel My Pain!"; title: Contrapuntal Combat : Beethoven's Great Fugue; title: Wood and Wool : The Making of a Steinway Concert Grand; title: A Nation Full of Will : Kent School Connecticut Centennial Address, 2006; title: Nuages Gris : Colors in Music, Literature and Art; title: The Other Side of Silence : Beethoven's Deafness; title: The African Obama : The Prepresidential Photographs of Pete Souza; title: As Much of a Monologue as Possible : Theodore Roosevelt at 150; title: Voice, or Ventriloquism? : Language and the Presidency; title: Buffs v. Blues : Replay of The Election of 1910; title: The Adventures of Sam Clemens : Or, the Autobiography of Mark Twain; title: Manners Maketh Man : Ronald Reagan at 100; title: Edison Illluminated : The "Life & Phenomenon" of an Inventor.