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… the bulbous nose—with a self-deprecating anecdote for his audience. Thanks to the fairy tales his own mother had read to … Austria, making it impossible to verify. However, it was completely plausible that a scholar of this stature would be … their death.” As his former student Ronald Angres astutely points out: “Structurally speaking, his implied attack on …

… of ambition, the nature of their subjects makes such an outcome almost inevitable. If Lincoln’s ambition was “a little … careful attention to the observations of their peers, reveals at least some of the characteristics of ambition in its … a full-fledged theory of ambition from only two case studies, the Lincoln-Clinton parallels suggest a curious …

… I am growing & I find this frightful that my body will become too large to live here comfortably. The earth opens for me as I always knew it … a willful child, a little bruised & if I go out I will die dreaming. IV. I had forgotten the small news of the …

… its difficult transition period, with the war and the coming of the railroad, the depreciation of gold—the passing … Mr. Turner wrote the article “Locarno” in the October, 1926, number. His latest book is “The Privy Council of …

… the 20th century. Entitled America Revised , her book was commended by John Kenneth Galbraith, who found its writing … Keith Hopkins’ Conquerors and Slaves: Sociological Studies in Roman History , Volume One, a work the London Times … in Lion in the Garden: Interviews with William Faulkner, 1926—1962 , edited by James B. Meriwether and Michael Millgate …