Roy Morris
Author
Language
English
Description
In this compelling narrative, renowned historian Roy Morris, Jr., expertly offers a new angle on two of America's most towering politicians and the intense personal rivalry that transformed both them and the nation they sought to lead in the dark days leading up to the Civil War.
For the better part of two decades, Stephen Douglas was the most famous and controversial politician in the United States, a veritable "steam engine in britches." Abraham...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A focused biography, this book details the celebrated author and expatriate Gertrude Stein in her triumphant homecoming to America in 1934, following the surprise success of her disguised memoir, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, the previous year. The book shows how Stein's first visit to America in thirty years renewed her emotional and artistic connection to her homeland"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed literary biographer Roy Morris carefully sorts fact from fiction to tell the story of a young genius finding his voice in the ramshackle mining camps, boomtowns, and newspaper offices of the wild and woolly West, while the Civil War rages half a continent away.
Author
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"Arriving at the port of New York in 1882, a 27-year-old Oscar Wilde quipped he had 'nothing to declare but my genius.' But as Roy Morris, Jr., reveals in this sparkling narrative, Wilde was, for the first time in his life, underselling himself. A chronicle of the sensation that was Wilde's eleven-month speaking tour of America, Declaring His Genius offers an indelible portrait of both Oscar Wilde and the Gilded Age. Wilde covered 15,000 miles, delivered...
