California Dreamin’- With Wide Open Eyes
You get a lot of strange reactions when you say you like Los Angeles in New York. A furrowed brow, sometimes a disapproving snort, usually followed by the inevitable comeback that San Francisco is so...
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California Dreamin’— With Wide Open Eyes
You get a lot of strange reactions when you say you like Los Angeles in New York. A furrowed brow, sometimes a disapproving snort, usually followed by the inevitable comeback that San Francisco is so...
View ArticleA ‘Good Fellow’ in Gotham- A Literate Gilded Age Thief
In the hurly-burly decades after the Civil War, uptown and downtown, on and off the Bowery and all over Five Points, the New York underworld boasted a roster of real-life shady characters—crooked...
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A ‘Good Fellow’ in Gotham— A Literate Gilded Age Thief
In the hurly-burly decades after the Civil War, uptown and downtown, on and off the Bowery and all over Five Points, the New York underworld boasted a roster of real-life shady characters—crooked...
View ArticleContrasting Capitalists, Balanced Biographies
Mellon: An American Life, by David Cannadine. Alfred A. Knopf, 779 pages, $35. The political wags tell us we’re living in a new Gilded Age, so it’s probably a good time to check in with the old—but be...
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Contrasting Capitalists, Balanced Biographies
Mellon: An American Life, by David Cannadine. Alfred A. Knopf, 779 pages, $35. The political wags tell us we’re living in a new Gilded Age, so it’s probably a good time to check in with the old—but be...
View ArticleThe Critic as Pugilist, Champion of High Art
The cultural critic Lee Siegel is known as something of a terror for his slashing, razor-sharp essays and reviews. His savage eloquence has ticked off a lot of folk, and his not entirely deserved...
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The Critic as Pugilist, Champion of High Art
The cultural critic Lee Siegel is known as something of a terror for his slashing, razor-sharp essays and reviews. His savage eloquence has ticked off a lot of folk, and his not entirely deserved...
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