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Fathers and Daughters | Michael Gorra | The New York Review of Books
Susan Cheever’s recollections of her childhood illuminate the obsessions and failures that lay behind her father’s fiction.
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Michael Gorra | The New York Review of Books
Michael Gorra’s books include Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece and The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War....
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Living Through the Civil War | Michael Gorra | The New York Review of Books
George Templeton Strong’s diaries provide the North’s best record of daily passions and woes during its struggle against the South.
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