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… before the Civil War. The Whig Party was an essential component of that dominant system. Perhaps best remembered … leaders, Crittenden, Clayton, Toombs, and Stephens, but, also, the important state level party activists such as … But, by the mid-1850’s, the Whigs stumbled badly and then died. Why this collapse, given their vitality and many …

… not sound appealing, but in the hands of Peter Novick it becomes a wonderfully revealing account of the evolution of … movement on the politics and society of early- and late-medieval England. Most important, in Mr. Tyerman’s view, is … This is an interesting book which makes some solid points and addresses complex issues. It is attractively …

… pie, noodle pudding, and banana nut muffins.” My daughter completes the job with a grave air of responsibility. I tell … down my back. “If any of the rest of you are alive when I die,” Myra says suddenly from the back of the station wagon, … She takes me back through the buzzer, holding my hand. She points to a carved wooden dog about an inch long in the …

… said she would buy the flowers herself (the Dalloway meme come nearly full circle), walking out with a mask and gloves … news from a list compiled in a weekly review: “A woman who died alone in a nursing home recorded over 40 messages on an … Yo-Yo Ma’s videos on Twitter, playing what he calls #SongsOfComfort. But also a more ordinary happiness. A delicious, …

… recent history affords much evidence that it is Intellectuals who are most swiftly and permanently convinced by a … America; why predict the ruin of a culture that never had come into existence? Had he been acquainted with our idiom, … can be no other, since cultures are by their very nature incommensurable. The English man, with rare exceptions, does …