Newburyport Public Library

This living hand, and other essays, Edmund Morris

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Includes bibliographical references and index

contains biographical information

illustrations

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This living hand

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Edmund Morris

and other essays

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

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