Books like Stravinsky
12 books with a reading profile close to Stravinsky by Stephen Walsh. Outward-looking; a moderate read.
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1
Saint Patrick Retold
by Roy Flechner
Also outward-looking · history, biography
Roy Flechner reconstructs the life of the historical Patrick by situating his fifth-century mission within the legal and economic structures of late antiquity.
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2
George Cukor
Also outward-looking · history, biography
Patrick McGilligan chronicles the life and career of George Cukor, focusing on his survival as a gay man within the rigid Hollywood studio system.
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Arnold Schoenberg Letters
history, biography
This collection gathers the personal and professional correspondence of the Austrian composer, spanning his life from 1910 through his late years in the United States.
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A Shostakovich Casebook
history, biography
Malcolm Hamrick Brown’s collection analyzes the legitimacy of Solomon Volkov’s Testimony, a memoir claiming to represent Dmitri Shostakovich’s private anti-Soviet sentiments.
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Leonardo da Vinci
by Martin Kemp
Also outward-looking · history, biography
Martin Kemp presents a cohesive analysis of Leonardo da Vinci’s career by linking his artistic output to his scientific inquiries.
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Napoleon: A Life
Also outward-looking · history, biography
Andrew Roberts utilizes thirty-three thousand recently published letters to reconstruct the daily reality of Napoleon Bonaparte’s administration and military campaigns.
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The Life of Elizabeth I
by Alison Weir
history, biography
Alison Weir chronicles the private life and political reign of the last Tudor monarch, focusing on the tension between Elizabeth’s persona as the Virgin Queen and her actual relationships.
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Also outward-looking · history, biography
Robert Caro’s biography tracks the career of Robert Moses, a public official who reshaped New York through the construction of bridges, highways, and public parks without ever being elected to office.
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History of Beauty
by Umberto Eco
Also outward-looking · history, academic
Umberto Eco examines the shifting definitions of aesthetics in Western civilization from ancient Greece to the dawn of the twenty-first century.
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
by Ron Chernow
Also outward-looking · history, biography
Ron Chernow reconstructs the life of the architect of the Standard Oil Trust, tracing John D.
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