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‘A Sort of Intimate Whirlwind’

The Intimate Interiors of Edouard Vuillard

an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum May 18 to July 30, 1990

The Intimate Interiors of Edouard Vuillard

catalog of the exhibition by Elizabeth Wynne Easton


Tokyo Boogie-Woogie

Tokyo Rising: The City Since the Great Earthquake

by Edward Seidensticker


The Best Years of Their Lives

In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933-1966

by Joshua B. Freeman

Working-Class Americanism: The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914-1960

by Gary Gerstle

Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s

by Bruce Nelson


Underground Man

Never Come Morning

by Nelson Algren, Introduction by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., interview with the author by H.E.F. Donohue

The Neon Wilderness

by Nelson Algren, Introduction by Tom Corson, Afterword by Studs Terkel

The Man with the Golden Arm

by Nelson Algren, introduction by James R. Giles

A Walk on the Wild Side

by Nelson Algren, foreword by Russell Banks

Nelson Algren: A Life on the Wild Side

by Bettina Drew

Confronting the Horror: The Novels of Nelson Algren

by James R. Giles

Nelson Algren's Chicago

photographs by Art Shay

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The Way to the Wall

German History, 1770-1866

(The Oxford History of Modern Europe) and James J. Sheehan

Bismarck, The White Revolutionary, Vol. I, 1815-1871, Vol. II, 1871-1898

by Lothar Gall, translated by J.A. Underwood

Bürgertum in Deutschland

by Lothar Gall

Die Deutschen in ihrem Jahrhundert 1890-1990

by Christian Graf von Krockow

Letters to Freya, 1939-1945

by Helmuth James von Moltke, edited and translated by Beate Ruhm von Oppen


Fin-de-Siècle America

The Myth of America's Decline: Leading the World Economy into the 1990s

by Henry R. Nau

America's Economic Resurgence: A Bold New Strategy

by Richard Rosecrance

Peril and Promise: A Commentary on America

by John Chancellor

Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power

by Joseph S. Nye Jr.


Viva Mencken!

The Diary of H.L. Mencken

edited by Charles A. Fecher


A Question of Character

Schrödinger: Life and Thought

by Walter Moore


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