Detroit was the Silicon Valley of the 1920s — the booming home of a glamorous new industry, a place where huge fortunes were conjured in years, sometimes months.
Like the United States, France is a melting pot. But while on this side of the Atlantic newcomers came to the United States, on the other it was France that came to the newcomers.
In The Importance of Being Earnest, the tutor Miss Prism instructs her student Cecily to omit “The Fall of the Rupee” from her reading in political economy.
In The Importance of Being Earnest, the tutor Miss Prism instructs her student Cecily to omit “The Fall of the Rupee” from her reading in political economy.
Suddenly we are knee-deep in full-length biographies of President Eisenhower. Jean Edward Smith’s new biography, Eisenhower in War and Peace, follows biographies by Jim Newton published in 2011, Carlo d’Este in 2003, and Geoffrey Perret in 1999.
Titles matter! I took up Philip Lawler’s The Faithful Departed: The Collapse of Boston’s Catholic Culture in the belief that I would be reading … well, just what the title said.