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  • Family Romance

    John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers

    par Jean Strouse ...
    Collections series
    Jean Strouse captures the dramas, mysteries, intrigues, and tragedies surrounding John Singer Sargent's portraits of the Wertheimer family.Jean Strouse’s Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers looks at twelve portraits of one English family painted by the expatriate American artist at the height of his career—and at the intersections of all these lives with the sparkle and strife ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Morgan

    American Financier

    par Jean Strouse ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERA century ago, J. Pierpont Morgan bestrode the financial world like a colossus. The organizing force behind General Electric, U.S. Steel, and vast railroad empires, he served for decades as America's unofficial central banker: a few months after he died in 1913, the Federal Reserve replaced the private system he had devised. An early supporter of Thomas Edison and Andrew ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • Alice James

    A Biography

    par Jean Strouse ...
    Winner of the Bancroft Prize for American HistoryThe only comprehensive biography of the astute observer and diarist Alice James, whose life and legacy were long overshadowed by her two famous brothers, William and Henry James.Alice James is perhaps best known as the sister of Henry James, the novelist, and William James, “the father of American psychology.” Few readers were familiar with Alice’s ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

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    Morgan

    American Financier

    par Jean Strouse ...
    Lu par Nelson Runger ...

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    43 heure 14 min

    Noted biographer Jean Strouse has won the Bancroft Prize and received fellowships from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowments for the Humanities and Arts. Her work has appeared in major magazines including The New Yorker and Newsweek. In Morgan, she creates the first complete portrait of a man who defined American commerce and banking. Contemporaries described J. Pierpoint ... En savoir plus

    $54.99 CAD

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    The Warburgs

    The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family

    par Ron Chernow ...
    Lu par Jonathan Reese ...

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    35 heure 21 min

    Bankers, philanthropists, scholars, socialites, artists, and politicians, the Warburgs stood at the pinnacle of German (and, later, of German-American) Jewry. They forged economic dynasties, built mansions and estates, assembled libraries, endowed charities, and advised a German kaiser and two American presidents. But their very success made the Warburgs lightning rods for anti-Semitism, and their ... En savoir plus

    $50.99 CAD

  • That Woman

    The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

    par Anne Sebba ...
    The New York Times –bestselling biography that "explores the mind of one of the most vilified women of the twentieth century" ( USA Today ).This is the story of Wallis Simpson, the American divorcee notorious for allegedly seducing a British king off his throne. "That woman," so called by Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, was born Bessie Wallis Warfield in 1896 in Baltimore. Nei... ... En savoir plus

    $23.19 CAD

  • Romantic Outlaws

    The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley

    NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SEATTLE TIMESThis groundbreaking dual biography brings to life a pioneering English feminist and the daughter she never knew. Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley have each been the subject of numerous biographies, yet no one has ever examined their lives in one book—until now. In Romantic Outlaws, Charlotte ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • Complete Paintings of John Singer Sargent (Delphi Classics)

    Collections Livre 19 - Delphi Masters of Art
    The American artist John Singer Sargent, widely considered the leading portrait painter of his generation, is celebrated for his paintings of Edwardian era luxury, landscape paintings and Impressionistic masterpieces. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing digital readers to explore the works of great artists in comprehensive detail. This volume ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD

  • William James

    In the Maelstrom of American Modernism

    The definitive biography of the fascinating William James, whose life and writing put an indelible stamp on psychology, philosophy, teaching, and religion—on modernism itself.Often cited as the "father of American psychology," William James was an intellectual luminary who made significant contributions to at least five fields: psychology, philosophy, religious studies, teaching, and literature.A ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Oscar Wilde

    A Life

    par Matthew Sturgis ...
    **The fullest, most textural, most accurate—most human—account of Oscar Wilde's unique and dazzling life—based on extensive new research and newly discovered materials, from Wilde's personal letters and transcripts of his first trial to newly uncovered papers of his early romantic (and dangerous) escapades and the two-year prison term that shattered his soul and his life."Simply the best modern ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • No Modernism Without Lesbians

    par Diana Souhami ...
    A Sunday Times Book of the YearWinner of the Polari Prize'A book about love, identity, acceptance and the freedom to write, paint, compose and wear corduroy breeches with gaiters. To swear, kiss, publish and be damned. It is vastly entertaining and often moving... There isn't a page without an entertaining vignette' The Times.The extraordinary story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Mary Wollstonecraft

    A Revolutionary Life

    par Janet Todd ...
    The combination of Mary Wollstonecraft works, with her efforts to live a revolutionary inner and outer life has no equal. In her richly detailed, all-encompassing biography of the first major feminist in England, Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd highlights her intellectual and sexual dilemmas, her glamorous and tumultuous life and loves.Since the first publication of Mary Wollstonecraft: A ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD