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Daniel Mark Epstein
A vivid portrait, nuanced and insightful, of the greatest songwriter of the twentieth-century.
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A beautiful new collection of poetry, filled with elegant language and vibrant imagery, combines the nature of time’s passing and the victorious command of the natural world with poets and…
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Although the private lives of political couples have in our era become front-page news, the true story of this extraordinary and tragic first family has never been fully told. The…
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Sister Aimee was a scamp in school, a young widow in China, and a neurotic housewife in Rhode Island, but when the Lord spoke to her, she accepted her ministry…
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The poems in Daniel Mark Epstein’s eighth poetry collection range from the kind of solid and accomplished works for which he is known to astonishing pieces that are near-spiritual encounters…
Epstein presents a fresh angle on Abraham Lincoln as seen by his three young private secretaries–the men who knew him better than anyone outside his immediate family.
Using letters, diaries, and journals of Edna St. Vincent Millay and her lovers that have only recently become available, Epstein tells the astonishing story of the life, dedicated to art…
Drawing from a career of almost fifty years, Daniel Mark Epstein’s collection of new and selected poems forms a lyrical autobiography of its author as a poet and a man…
The dramatic story of Founding Father Ben Franklin; his illegitimate son, William; and the tragedy of their conflict during the American Revolution-from the acclaimed author of The Lincolns
Drawing on revelatory interviews, rich analysis of lyrics, and lifelong study, Epstein delivers an in-depth, fresh take on the artist that offers a singular, nuanced, and insightful examination of Dylan–the…
The vivid and intimate story of how the lives and thoughts of Abraham Lincolnand Walt Whitman converged during the Civil War years.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The first publication of Edna St. Vincent Millay's private, intimate diaries, providing "a candid self-portrait of the 'bad girl of American letters'" (Kirkus Reviews)
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Euripides is, of the three great Attic tragedians, perhaps the most contemporary in sensibility. This volume contains four of his plays, largely about women, in translations that reveal the complexities…