Personal History 9780394585857, 0394585852

An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women -- a book tha

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Personal History
9780394585857, 0394585852

In 1978 a romantic young Englishman took up residence in Berlin to see what that divided city could teach him about tyra

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Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tells the story of postw

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An Enlarged Heart, the exquisitely written prose debut from prize-winning poet Cynthia Zarin, is a poignantly understate

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Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tells the story of postw

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When History Is Personal contains the stories of twenty-five moments in Mimi Schwartz's life, each heightened by it

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A beautifully written memoir-in-essays on fairy tales and their surprising relevance to modern life, from a Jewish woman

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Reclaiming the Personal underscores the political implications of oral history research in post-socialist Europe and hig

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In this memoir the author has done more than merely recount the historical facts as recorded in official documents; he g

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