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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'She'd been intimately his, and he
hers, for twenty-seven years - which were his final twenty-seven
years. She'd lasted through three wives, the Nobel Prize, and all
his ruin. He'd owned her, fished her, worked her and rode her, from
the waters of Key West to the Bahamas to the Dry Tortugas to the
north coast and archipelagos of Cuba.' Even in his most
accomplished period, Hemingway carried within him the seeds of his
tragic decline and throughout this period he had one constant - his
beloved boat, Pilar. The boat represented and witnessed everything
he loved in life - virility, deep-sea fishing, access to his
beloved ocean, freedom, women and booze and the formative years of
his children. Paul Hendrickson focuses on the period from 1934 to
1961, from the pinnacle of Hemingway's fame to his suicide. He has
delved into the life of Hemingway and done the seemingly
impossible: present him to us in a whole new light.
From the award-winning and best-selling author of Hemingway's Boat
- a ground-breaking biography that illuminates the life, mind and
work of one of the icons of twentieth-century America. Frank Lloyd
Wright has long been known as both a supreme artist and an
insufferable egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside
from his own genius as an architect. But in this masterly work we
discover a man dogged by traumas, racked by lies, and stifled by
the myths he wove around himself: a man aware of the choices he
made, and of their costs. This is the Wright who was haunted by his
father, about whom he told the greatest lie of his life. And this
is the Wright of many other overlooked aspects of his story: his
close, and perhaps romantic, relationship with friend and early
mentor Cecil Corwin; the connection between the Tulsa Race Riot of
1921 and the murder of his mistress, her two children and four
others at his beloved Wisconsin home by a servant gone mad; and the
eerie, unmistakable role of fires in his eventful life. Showing us
Wright's facades along with their cracks, Hendrickson helps us form
a deep and more human understanding of the man, and a fresh
appreciation of his monumental artistic achievements. With
prodigious research, unique vision and his ability to make sense of
a life in ways at once unexpected, poetic and brilliant, he has
given us the defining book on one of the greatest creative talents
of twentieth-century America.
They stand as unselfconscious as if the photograph were being taken
at a church picnic and not during one of the pitched battles of the
civil rights struggle. None of them knows that the image will
appear in "Life "magazine""or that it will become an icon of its
era. The year is 1962, and these seven white Mississippi lawmen
have gathered to stop James Meredith from integrating the
University of Mississippi. One of them is swinging a billy club.
More than thirty years later, award-winning journalist and author
Paul Hendrickson sets out to discover who these men were, what
happened to them after the photograph was taken, and how racist
attitudes shaped the way they lived their lives. But his ultimate
focus is on their children and grandchildren, and how the prejudice
bequeathed by the fathers was transformed, or remained untouched,
in the sons. Sons of Mississippi is a scalding yet redemptive work
of social history, a book of eloquence and subtlely that tracks the
movement of racism across three generations and bears witness to
its ravages among both black and white Americans.
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