David Laskin Books
Braving the Elements
By David Laskin
Nowhere in the world is weather as volatile and powerful as it is in North America. Scorching heat in the Southwest, hurricanes on the Atlantic coast, tornadoes in the Plains, blizzards in the mou...
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The family
By David Laskin
Traces the history of the 20th century through the story of an extraordinary Jewish family, recounting how the author's 19th-century ancestors were separated by period upheavals in western Russia a...
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A common life
By David Laskin
In this splendid group portrait, David Laskin tells the stories of four friendships that helped to define the course of American literature: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, Henry James and...
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Partisans: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal among the New York Intellectuals
By David Laskin
"From the Depression era of the 1930s through the Vietnam War of the 1960s, a generation of "public intellectuals" thrived in America. They were poets, novelists, critics, and commentators who were...
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Herman Melville's Billy Budd & Typee
By David Laskin
A guide to reading "Billy Budd" and "Typee" with a critical and appreciative mind. Includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list.
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