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Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity
What is the relationship between poetry and fame? What happens to a reader's experience when a poem invokes its author's popularity? Is there a meaningful connection between poetry and advertising, between the rhetoric of...
Richard Rodgers
A lively book that examines—for the first time—the full range of music by one of America’s most celebrated composers Richard Rodgers was an icon of the musical theater, a prolific composer whose career...
Jerome Kern
A founding father of the modern American musical, Jerome Kern (1885–1945) was the composer of legions of popular songs, including such standards as “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” and “Ol’ Man River.” His 1927 Show Boat with...
Sigmund Romberg
Hungarian-born composer Sigmund Romberg (1887–1951) arrived in America in 1909 and within eight years had achieved his first hit musical on Broadway. This early success was soon followed by others, and in the 1920s his...
Kander and Ebb
Composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb collaborated for more than forty years, longer than any such partnership in Broadway history. Together they wrote over twenty musicals. Their two most successful works,
Transplant
From Myth to Reality
A pioneer in organ transplantation discusses the amazing advances in the field One of the most spectacular medical advances of the twentieth century, organ transplantation has become a generally...
The Italian Inquisition
The Italian Inquisition, or Holy Office, was established in 1542, stimulated partly by the earlier Spanish operation. Certainly Spain’s “black legend” affected opinions of the Inquisition in Italy, but as this...
On Opera
In his last work, one of the great philosophers of the 20th century explores the pleasures of opera Bernard Williams, who died in 2003, was one of the most influential moral philosophers of his generation....
The Eagle and the Crown
Americans and the British Monarchy
This book tells the intriguing and paradoxical story of a nation that overthrew British rule only to become fascinated by the glamor of its royal family. Examining American attitudes toward British royalty from the...
James Swan, Cha-tic of the Northwest Coast
Drawings and Watercolors from the Franz and Kathryn Stenzel Collection
The catalogue of the 2003 exhibition at Yale University’s Beinecke Library shows drawings from the extraordinary collection of James Swan, 19th-century chronicler of the American Northwest and collector of ethnographic...