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A THOUSAND DAYS: JOHN F. KENNEDY IN THE WHITE HOUSE, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Other New Frontiersmen stood closer to the President, but none has been better equipped—or more successful—than Harvard Historian Schlesinger in describing the moods and assessing the deeds of the Kennedy Administration.
THE PROUD TOWER, by Barbara Tuchman. In The Guns of August Historian Tuchman presented a perceptive and appalling analysis of the military catastrophe of 1914. In this sequel, she steps back a few years and examines with equal sharpness a luxurious and unheeding Europe as it drifted toward disaster.
THE EVENING OF THE HOLIDAY, by Shirley Hazzard. An artful and poetic first novel about the holiday affair of two not-too-young, not-too-attractive lovers in Italy.
BERNARD SHAW: COLLECTED LETTERS (1874-1897), edited by Dan H. Laurence. Nearly 700 letters—anecdotal, flirtatious, argumentative—are more than just the brilliant babble of a compulsive correspondent. They comprise an autobiography of G.B.S.'s prodigious early years as music and drama critic, socialist propagandist and philanderer.
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