Literature

<p><span class="deck"> Bronson Alcott and his transcendental friends hardly ever stopped talking. It left almost no time for mundane things like food and shelter</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> Sixteen years before Pearl Harbor an English naval expert uncannily prophesied in detail the war in the Pacific. Now comes evidence that the Japanese heeded his theories—but not his warnings</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The lady author modelled her famous fictional creation after her own wonder boy —and condemned a generation of “manly little chaps” to velvet pants and curls</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> The Literary Lights Were Always Bright at</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> In this final installment from our series on General Joseph W. Stilwell, Barbara W. Tuchman recounts the story of the old soldier’s finest hour</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> The Rough Rider rode roughshod over writers who took liberties with Mother Nature’s children</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> on the Writing of History</span> </span></p>

<p>The longtime adviser to American Heritage wrote history not simply as a means of talking with other historians, but in order to talk to the general reader. </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> If it rained, the painters failed to record it</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> A shy Yankee named Hannah Adams never thought of herself as liberated, but she was our first professional female writer.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> A Little Visit to the Lower Depths via</span> </p>

<p>Common Sense was a bestseller and turned the tide of public feeling toward independence, but for its author fame was followed by ingratitude.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> The Most Uncommon Pamphlet of the Revolution</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> A Legend in Her Time</span> </p>

<p>The prevailing Colonial feeling toward female education was unanimously negative. Learning to read was the first feminist triumph.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> WHAT POLIOMYELITIS MEANT TO A POLITICAL CAREER</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">Harriet Beecher Stowe, an extraordinary member of an extraordinary family, always claimed that God wrote</span> Uncle Tom’s Cabin</p>

<p><span class="deck">BETWEEN KING AND COUNTRY</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> HOW TWO FAMOUS FIGURES OF THE TWENTIES GREW UP, MET, AND FELL IN LOVE</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">How a champagne picnic on Monument Mountain led to a profound revision of <span class="typestyle">Moby Dick</span> — and disenchantment</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> IT WAS LIKE THIS FOR OUR GREAT-GRANDMOTHERS</span> </p>

<p>The broad expanse of ocean that separated Plymouth from Mother England helped create a novel experiment in democracy that grew as the American colonies expanded.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> A Senator’s View</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> THE DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION OF FLOYD COLLINS</span> </p>

<p>One of America's most distinguished publishers writes of his personal and professional friendship with the famed historian, Samuel Eliot Morison.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> “The world is my country, to hate rascals is my religion” he once said, and for more than forty years—before he mysteriously vanished—he blasted away at the delusions, pretentions, posturings, hopes, dreams, foibles, and institutions of all mankind. His name was Ambrose Bierce …</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The Man Who Invented Himself</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> to Joseph P. Lash for Roosevelt and Churchill, 1939–1941: The Partnership That Saved the West</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> David McCullough’s<br />
THE PATH BETWEEN THE SEAS </span></p>