Fall of the Dynasties in World War I Explored
In a new book by Paris correspondent Robert Marks, Edmond Taylor recounts the 17-year collapse of four European dynasties that shaped modern history. The Fall of the Dynasties analyzes the Romanov, Habsburg, Ottoman, and Hohenzollern houses and their roles in imperial decline. The work, part of the Mainstream of the Modern World and a Book-of-the-Month Club February selection, frames the two fatal shots at Sarajevo as catalysts within a broader dynastic crisis.
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Concord Bridge
Arajevo
Francis Ferdinand
Edmond Taylor
Doubleday
Taylor
House of
Francis Joseph
Canute
House of Habsburg
Austria-Hungary
Europe
Abdul Hamid II
House of Hohenzollern
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Kingdom of
Prussia
Hohenzollern
Paris
The
Reporter Magazine
Robert Marks
Best Sellers Review Highlights Classics and New Works
A list of fiction and non fiction titles including A Shade of Difference Seven Days in May Fail Safe The Thin Red Line Ship of Fools Silent Spring Travels with Charley Dyes Jigs and Juleps The Rothschilds Letters from the Earth plus others.
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Drury
Knebel and Bailey
Burdick
Wheeler
Jones
Porter
Carson
Charley
Steinbeck
The Baroness and the General in War Time Biography
Louise Hall Tharp presents a biography of Frederika von Riedesel, wife of Baron von Riedesel, a pioneering female war correspondent. The work details her 1776 American journey with Burgoyne, her letters from the field, eyewitness accounts of Saratoga, prison journeys, and life among campaigns, with extensive archival research.
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Louise Hall Tharp
Little, Brown
Red Adel
Baroness von Riedesel
America
Baron von Riedesel
Duchy of Brunswick
George III
Frederika
Johnny Burgoyne
Saratoga
Burgoyne
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Germany
St. Lawrence
Duke of Brunswick
Evolution of an Architect by Edward Durell Stone
Relman Morin reviews this Horizon Press biography and meditation on architecture. Stone traces a mountain boy from the Ozarks to a global career with humor and urbane commentary. He argues a great building should be universal not controversial.
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Edward Durell Stone
Horizon Press
National Cultural Center
Washington
Stone
Jacqueline Kennedy
New York
America
Arkansas
Fayetteville
Ozarks
New York City
Museum of Modern Art
U. S
India
California
North Carolina
Middle East
Father Ford
Addicts the Collectors Dr Clari bel and Miss Etta Cone
Barbara Pollack profiles the Cone sisters who built a Baltimore Museum wing collection of modern art. It traces their early forays into modern masters, ties to the Stein family, and travel habits, noting Pollack’s thorough but not thrilling background.
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Claribel
Etta Cone
Barbara Pollack
Bobbs Merrill
Baltimore Museum of Art
Paris
Gertrude Stein
Cone Sisters
Tennessee Williams Calls Milk Train a True Test of Broadway
Tennessee Williams discusses Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More opening at the Morosco Theater as his 11th Broadway main show in 16 years. He reflects on fame, artistic struggle, and intent, linking his work to truth and human experience while planning a future with Actors' Studio several short plays.
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Williams
Morosco Theater
Hermione Baddeley
Paul Roebling
Mildred Dunnock
Diaghilev
Perm
Urals
St. Petersburg
Manon Lescaut
Giacomo Puccini
Teatro Regio
Turin
Italy
Puccini
Z. Melnikov
Art lovers favored with new color slide book series
New York publishers expand affordable art access with The Color Slide Book of the World's Art from McGraw-Hill. Each volume includes 24 color and black and white plates plus text, plus front and back slide pockets and viewer options. Paperback art books rise in variety and price, from 39 cents to several dollars, with many series and imprints noted.
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New York
McGraw-Hill Book Co
Ses
McGraw-Hill
Albert Chatelet
Lille Museum
France
Harry N. Abrams Inc
Abram
Pocket Library of Great Art
Little Art Library
Tudor Publishing Co
Washington Square Press
Dell Publishing
George Wittenborn Inc
Venturesome
New American Library
Mentor
Unesco
Barnes & Noble
Renoir
Compass
Compass History of Art
Franco Russoli
Brear Gallery
Milan
Italy
Penguin
Harper Torchbooks
Noonday Press
Bantam Books
Capricorn
Putnam
Dover Publications
Evergreen
Universal Library
Dutton Everyman
Charles E. Tuttle Co
Rutland
Beacon Press
Boston
Meridian Books
World
Cleveland
Indiana University Press
Bloomington
Miles A. Smith
Bookmobile Schedule for High Point Library Week
High Point Public Library releases a weekly bookmobile timetable for January 14 to 18. Routes run Monday through Friday at multiple locations including College Village Shopping Center Gatewood Emery Road Lindale Locust Gordon Kimrey Cedrow Arlington Barbee Fifth Street W College North Drive Woodrow Farriss Terrell Drive Kimmons Brentwood Friddle Street Austin Street Wesley Place Russell Street and more.
Stravinsky and Picasso at 80 recall Diaghilev era
The piece notes Igor Stravinsky and Pablo Picasso marking 80th birthdays and relives their collaboration under Serge Diaghilev. It highlights Diaghilev as the era’s impresario who united Stravinsky, Picasso, Nijinsky and Beecham, and traces his rise from Perm to Lavish productions funded by culture patrons.
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Igor Stravinsky
Pablo Picasso
Serge Diaghilev
Stravinsky
Picasso
Nijinsky
Beecham
Diaghilev
Petrouchka
Rothchilds
Basil Zaharoff
Russia
Ravel
Tcherepnin
Glazounov
Manuel de Falla
Richard Strauss
Rimsky- Korsakov
Rachmaninoff
Prokofiev
Debussy
Milhaud
Bakst
Roualt
Chirico
Cocteau
Derain
Sert
Tchelitcher
Monteux
Ansermet
Gloschmann
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Ingres
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