
Essays in Biography
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Northwestern for many years. He is the author of 22 books, many of them collections of essays, and
has also written for numerous magazines including the New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Commentary.
Content
- Intro
- Praise for the Essays of Joseph Epstein
- Also by Joseph Epstein
- Image Credits
- Americans
- George Washington: An Amateur's View
- Henry Adams and Henry James: Intellect Meets Sensibility
- George Santayana: The Permanent Transient
- Adlai Stevenson: The Man Who Couldn't Say Yes
- Henry Luce: Missionary among His Own People
- Ralph Ellison: Indivisible Man
- Isaac Rosenfeld: With Love and Squalor
- Saul Bellow: A Long, Unhappy Life
- Bernard Malamud: The Hard Road to Truth
- Dwight Macdonald: Sunburned by Ideas
- Gore Vidal: What Makes Vidal Run
- Irving Howe: The Old People's Socialist League
- Alfred Kazin: What's It All About, Alfie?
- Irving Kristol: A Genius of Temperament
- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.: The Man on Whom Everything Was Lost
- A. J. Liebling: Death by Fork
- John Frederick Nims: The Kareem in My Ca-Va-Fee
- Susan Sontag: A Very Public Intellectual
- Englishmen
- Max Beerbohm: The World's Greatest Minor Writer
- George Eliot: Eminent Victorian
- Maurice Bowra: The Oxford Man
- T. S. Eliot: The Demise of the Literary Culture
- Cyril Connolly: Nothing Succeeds Like Failure
- Isaiah Berlin: A Charmed Life
- Hugh Trevor-Roper: Arrogance Intellectual Division
- John Gross: Gentleman of Letters
- Popular Culture
- Alfred Kinsey: The Secret Life
- Charles Van Doren: Robert Redford's Charlie & Mine
- W. C. Fields: Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
- Irving Thalberg: Prodigy in Pictures
- George Gershwin: Rhapsody Imbued
- Joe DiMaggio: Where'd He Go?
- Michael Jordan: He Flew through the Air
- James Wolcott: The Voyeur
- Malcolm Gladwell: Jack-out-of-the-Box
- And Others
- Erich Heller: 1911-1990
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: A Conrad Hero
- V. S. Naipaul and Paul Theroux: Poison-Pen Pals
- Xenophon: The Third Man
- Matthew Shanahan: My Friend Matt
- Index
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