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This living hand, and other essays, Edmund Morris

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non fiction

This living hand

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Edmund Morris

and other essays

A wide-ranging collection of essays by a contemporary critic and historian traces four decades of writing and considers such diverse topics as Beethoven, Kilimanjaro, and Britain's Imperial War Museum

Bumstitch: lament for a forgotten fruit -- How I escaped death by snakebite and lived to write about Beethoven -- The ccurfew ttolls the knell of pparting day: remembering Mr. Atkinson -- The last snows of Kilimanjaro: a lament -- A ghostly tour with TR: the Badlands of North Dakota -- Documenting the intangible: the New York Public Library's dance collection -- Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter: a low-calorie diet for the musically obese -- Brutalities of marriage: Otto Friedrich's Clover : the tragic love story of Clover and Henry Adams -- Theodore Roosevelt the diplomat: Frederick W. Marks's velvet on iron -- "Look, Mother, My Public": the custody trial of Gloria Vanderbilt -- Theodore Roosevelt the polygon: address at the National Portrait Gallery -- Wilson as warmonger: Walter Karp's politics of war -- Line of concern: an interview with Nadine Gordimer -- A ztrangeness in the zight: the shadow world of Tom Bostelle -- The pen is mightier than the Smith-Corona: typing and the murder of style -- Music v. Musicology: Donald Francis Tovey, counsel for the defense -- Land of lost content: South Africa revisited in the last days of apartheid -- Tiger in sonic cage: the pianism of Vladimir Horowitz -- Theodore Roosevelt the writer: colloquium at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars -- Telling lives: a biographer's quest for temps perdu -- The Idea of North: Glenn Gould's search for solitude -- A hundred and forty-four Merlins: Britain's Imperial War Museum -- We came to America : the irrevocable act of emigration