Biography
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Spring/Summer 1999 Books: Biography


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THE ADAMS WOMEN
Abigail and Louisa Adams, Their Sisters and Daughters
PAUL C. NAGEL
>From his vast storehouse of knowledge about the Adams family, Nagel pulls out the feminine threads of that tapestry to write all about the Adams women, from Abigail to daughter Nabby, from Louisa Catherine Adams, wife of John Quincy, to Clover Adams, wife of Henry, with others making more than cameo appearances. They all lived exceptional, if not extraordinary, lives, in different ways, and were more than moons crossing the paths of the suns.
April 1999
336 pages
ISBN 0-674-00410-8
$14.95 / L9.50 paper


ALICE JAMES
A Biography
JEAN STROUSE
Awarded the Bancroft Prize for Distinguished American History
"Brilliant...Jean Strouse has created a fascinating picture of 'woman's place' in a family of genius and throws a searching light on the price a woman sometimes pays when reared in such a hothouse."
--Leon Edel
April 1999
36 halftones / 400 pages
ISBN 0-674-01555-X
$18.95 / L11.95 paper


ANDRE GIDE
A Life in the Present
ALAN SHERIDAN
One of the most important writers of the twentieth century, Andre Gide also led what was probably one of the most interesting lives our century has seen. In this literary biography of Gide, an intimate portrait of the reluctantly public man emerges. Following Gide from his first forays among the Symbolists through his sexual and political awakenings to his worldwide fame as a writer, sage, and commentator on his age, Sheridan richly conveys the drama of a remarkable life; the depth, breadth, and vitality of an incomparable oeuvre; and the spirit of a time that both so aptly expressed.
March 1999
35 halftones / 752 pages
ISBN 0-674-03527-5
$35.00 cloth
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DESCENT FROM GLORY
Four Generations of the John Adams Family
PAUL C. NAGEL
There has never been any doubt that the Adams family was America's first family in our politics and memory. This research-based and insightful book is a multigenerational biography of that family from the founder father John through the mordant writer Brooks.
April 1999
39 halftones / 400 pages
ISBN 0-674-19829-8
$16.95 / L10.50 paper


ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY
A Reformer on Her Own Terms
BRUCE A. RONDA
This is the first full-length biography of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, one of the three notable Peabody sisters of Salem, Massachusetts, and sister-in-law of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Horace Mann. In elegant prose it traces the intricate private life and extraordinary career of one of nineteenth-century America's most important Transcendental writers and educational reformers. She championed antislavery, European liberal revolutions, Spiritualism, and, in her last years, the Paiute Indians. She was, as Theodore Parker described her, the Boswell of her age.
March 1999
9 halftones / 416 pages
ISBN 0-674-24695-0
$45.00 / L27.95 cloth


JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
A Public Life, A Private Life
PAUL C. NAGEL
Winner of the Colonial Dames of America Award
"Nagel has set out to explore his hero's inner life...It is a story told largely from the vantage point of the subject."
--Wall Street Journal
April 1999
29 halftones / 448 pages
ISBN 0-674-47940-8
$16.95 / L10.50 paper


MARTIN LUTHER
The Christian between God and Death
RICHARD MARIUS
Few figures in history have defined their time as dramatically as Martin Luther. In this occasionally irreverent--but always humane--biography, Richard Marius provides a full portrait of Luther: his inner compulsions, his struggle with himself and his God, the gestation of his theology, his relations with contemporaries, and his responses to opponents. Focusing in particular on the productive years 1516-1525, Marius' detailed account of Luther's writings yields a rich picture of the development of Luther's thought on the great questions that came to define the Reformation.
Belknap Press
March 1999
16 halftones / 592 pages
ISBN 0-674-55090-0
$35.00 / L19.95 cloth


MIKHAIL KUZMIN
A Life in Art
JOHN E. MALMSTAD AND NIKOLAY BOGOMOLOV
Mikhail Kuzmin (1872-1936), Russia's first openly gay writer, stood at the epicenter of the turbulent cultural and social life of Petersburg-Petrograd-Leningrad for over three decades. Kuzmin was also a prose writer, playwright, critic, translator, and composer who was associated with every aspect of modernism's history in Russia. Only now is Kuzmin beginning to emerge from the "official obscurity" imposed by the Soviet regime to assume his place as one of Russia's greatest poets and one of this century's most characteristic and colorful creative figures. This biography, the first in any language to be based on full and uncensored access to the writer's private papers, including his notorious Diary.
April 1999
11 halftones / 512 pages
ISBN 0-674-53087-X
$49.95 / L30.95 cloth


SHREDDING THE TAPESTRY OF MEANING
The Poetry and Poetics of Kitasono Katue (1902-978)
JOHN SOLT
Kitasono Katue was a leading avant-garde literary figure, first in Japan and then throughout the world, from the 1920s to the 1970s. In his long career, Kitasono was instrumental in creating Japanese-language work influenced by futurism, dadaism, and surrealism before World War II and in contributing a Japanese voice to the international avant-garde movement after the war. This critical biography of Kitasono examines the life, poetry, and poetics of this controversial and flamboyant figure, including his wartime support of the Japanese state. Using Kitasono as a window on Japanese literature in the twentieth century, John Solt analyzes the relationship of Japanese writers to foreign literary movements and the influence of Japanese writers on world literature.
Harvard East Asian Monographs, 178
June 1999
39 illus. / 425 pages
ISBN 0-674-80733-2
$49.50 / L30.95 cloth


THOMAS MORE
A Biography
RICHARD MARIUS
Over the centuries, biographers of Thomas More have always praised him and made him an example for their own times. He was a man for all seasons. Truly, he was a Renaissance man with the contradictions such praise imposes on a towering figure. In Richard Marius's authoritative and engaging portrait, Sir Thomas More, the martyr and brilliant public figure, is a lesson for our season.
March 1999
592 pages
ISBN 0-674-88525-2
$18.95 / L11.95 paper


THE TRIALS OF ANTHONY BURNS
Freedom and Slavery in Emerson's Boston
ALBERT J. VON FRANK
Before 1854, most Northerners managed to ignore the distant unpleasantness of slavery. But that year an escaped Virginia slave, Anthony Burns, was captured and brought to trial in Boston--and never again could Northerners look the other way. This is the story of Burns's trial and of how, arising in abolitionist Boston just as the incendiary Kansas-Nebraska Act took effect, it revolutionized the moral and political climate in Massachusetts and sent shock waves through the nation.
February 1999
20 halftones / 431 pages
ISBN 0-674-90850-3
$16.95 / L10.50 paper

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