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Championship social climbing

From the underworld to the Court of St. James's in one generation

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Was my face red

The novel of embarrassment

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America’s lost liberal

The souring of Teddy White, 1956-1982

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The word police

Slugging it out with the language pundits

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Braudel’s magic lantern

The life's work of the historian who rediscovered everyday life

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Washed up

Followers of Robinson Crusoe

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Friends for now

Try deepened conversation, Mr. Carnegie

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Contempt causes insanity

The guru of aesthetic realism

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Breaking the line

The bard of Newark's department stores

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The train to Kompong Sam

Seeing the world with Thomas Cook

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Plato in Vermont

The ideal tree, and how to count it

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Pony or Pegasus

The problem of mistranslation

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The new irrelevance

Specialists in the noncontroversial

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A geographer of the imagination

The astute eye of Guy Davenport

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Instant tradition

Erica Jong's free-form history

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