The author has had the full co-operation of her subject in this biography of one of the leading novelists of post-war America. Mary McCarthy wrote "The Group", a novel which made a considerable impact, and a book about her extraordinary childhood - "Memories of a Catholic Girlhood".

Mary Mccarthy a Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Gelderman, Carol

Arts & Literature

Sidgwick and Jackson

Henry Ford: The wayward capitalist

This engrossing book is an objective biography of Henry Ford, and it reveals the full story of the man who rarely revealed his true feelings, but who had did more than any other to change the landscape, character, and experience of twentieth-century America.

Henry Ford: The Wayward Capitalist

Professionals & Academics

St Martins Pr

A portrait of the acclaimed writer who helped shape modern American culture and thought chronicles McCarthy's life and multi-faceted career, from her Catholic unbringing and personal life, to her protests against Stalin and Vietnam, to her literary work

Mary McCarthy: A Life

Vermilon Books

A biography of the Wall Street lawyer and novelist discusses his traditional upbringing, his years at boarding school and Yale, and the conflict between his urge to write and his destiny as a lawyer

Louis Auchincloss: A Writer's Life

Crown

Better Writing for Professionals: A Concise Guide (Scott, Foresman Procom Series)

Literature & Fiction

Scott, Foresman-Addison Wesley

Traces the rise and development of the rhetorical presidency, from FDR to Bill Clinton, and explores the impact each president's approach to speechwriting has had on his ability to govern. Examines public and private drama surrounding historic speeches related to WWII, the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Vietnam, and especially focuses on how the speechwriting process changed when Nixon took office and relied on professional speechwriters. Argues that when speechwriters have no policy-making responsibilities, speeches they produce reflect a serious disconnect between what the president says and does. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

All the Presidents' Words: The Bully Pulpit and the Creation of the Virtual Presidency

History

Americas

Walker Co

With more than sixty published novels, short story collections, and works of criticism and history to his credit, Louis Auchincloss is the very definition of prolific. He has garnered widespread acclaim for his unrivaled critical observations of Manhattan circles of wealth and influence, the same elite society in which he moves. In her definitive literary biography of Auchincloss, Carol Gelderman traces the iconic writer from boarding school to his early literary forays at Yale, from law school to naval service in World War II, and then to Wall Street, chronicling his success in both legal and literary careers. Gelderman notes that Auchincloss's greatest personal struggle-and perhaps greatest accomplishment-was to reconcile his competing impulses to follow his father's path to prominence in law and to write the stories of his world. "Of all our novelists," Gore Vidal has observed, Auchincloss "is the only one who tells us how our rulers behave in their banks and their boardrooms, their law offices and their clubs." Gelderman shows how Auchincloss came to be our preeminent novelist of manners and power in this update to her 1993 biography of the only writer to be named a "living landmark" by the New York Landmarks Conservancy. She offers keen insights into his life, careers, and writings, including his best-selling novels Portrait in Brownstone, The House of Five Talents, and The Rector of Justin as well as the more recent works The Scarlet Letters, East Side Story, and The Young Apollo and Other Stories

University of South Carolina Press

This engrossing book is an objective biography of Henry Ford, and it reveals the full story of the man who rarely revealed his true feelings, but who had did more than any other to change the landscape, character, and experience of twentieth-century America.

Historical

Beard Books

A Free Man of Color and His Hotel weaves the story of a uniquely successful black businessman into the burgeoning post–Civil War political struggle that pitted the federal government against the states’ desire to remain autonomous. Born in Washington, D.C., James Wormley worked as a hacker in his father’s livery stable there and as a steward on Mississippi River steamboats before establishing his own catering and boardinghouse businesses. During a period of limited opportunity for African Americans, he built and operated D.C.’s luxurious Wormley Hotel at a time when most financial and governmental business was conducted in hotels. Not only did a number of notable diplomats and politicians live at the hotel, but because of its location in the city’s commercial and political center, Wormley also hosted Washington’s movers and shakers. Wormley’s rise, however, occurred as three landmark decisions by the Supreme Court effectively dismantled Reconstruction and led to the Plessy v. Ferguson decision that legalized segregation. This cautionary tale illustrates how key Supreme Court decisions hindered other African Americans’ potential successes after Reconstruction. By examining the issue of states’ rights in terms of one man’s against-the-odds success, Carol Gelderman shows how these same issues are still relevant in a postsegregation United States.

A Free Man of Color and His Hotel: Race, Reconstruction, and the Role of the Federal Government

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Mary Mccarthy a Life

Henry Ford: The Wayward Capitalist

Mary McCarthy: A Life

Louis Auchincloss: A Writer's Life

Better Writing for Professionals: A Concise Guide (Scott, Foresman Procom Series)

All the Presidents' Words: The Bully Pulpit and the Creation of the Virtual Presidency

Louis Auchincloss: A Writer's Life

Henry Ford: The Wayward Capitalist

A Free Man of Color and His Hotel: Race, Reconstruction, and the Role of the Federal Government