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Degas in New Orleans

Degas and New Orleans: A French Impressionist in America

an exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art, May 1-August 29, 1999., Catalog of the exhibition by Gail Feigenbaum and Jean Sutherland Boggs


Washington: The Yellow Peril

Report of the Select Committee on US National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China

submitted by Mr. Cox of California, Chairman.

Year of the Rat: How Bill Clinton Compromised US Security for Chinese Cash

by Edward Timperlake and William C. Triplett II


Birth of a Salesman

“With Michael Jordan, the NBA began promoting players rather than teams, the sizzle as well as the steak, selling entertainment instead of just a game.”

Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made

by David Halberstam

For the Love of the Game: My Story

by Michael Jordan

The Best American Sports Writing of the Century

edited by. David Halberstam


Sentimental Education

An Equal Music

by Vikram Seth


A Reader’s Guide to the Century

The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991

by Eric Hobsbawm

Modern Times, Modern Places

by Peter Conrad

A History of the World in the Twentieth Century

by J.A.S. Grenville

The Century

by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster

The American Century

by Harold Evans, with Gail Buckland and Kevin Baker

The Oxford History of the Twentieth Century

edited by Michael Howard and William Roger Louis

The Columbia History of the Twentieth Century

edited by Richard W. Bulliet

Why the American Century?

by Olivier Zunz

The Twentieth Century: A World History

by Clive Ponting

Our Times: The Illustrated History of the 20th Century

edited by Lorraine Glennon

Chronicle of the 20th Century

edited by Clifton Daniel and John W. Kirshon, foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and An updated edition will be published in November.

National Geographic Eyewitness to the 20th Century

by National Geographic Society

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The Joys of Necrophilia

Gods and Monsters

a film written and directed by Bill Condon. Condon's screenplay appears in Scenario: The Magazine of Screenwriting Art, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Winter 1998-1999).

Father of Frankenstein

by Christopher Bram

James Whale: A New World of Gods and Monsters

by James Curtis

Bride of Frankenstein

by Alberto Manguel. (distributed in the US by Indiana University Press)

Open Secret: Gay Hollywood 1928-1998

by David Ehrenstein


The Power of the Electronic Herd

The Lexus and the Olive Tree

by Thomas L. Friedman


The Full Thoreau

The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture

by Lawrence Buell

Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science

by Laura Dassow Walls


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