Jill Lepore
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A cultural history of Wonder Woman traces the character's creation and enduring popularity, drawing on interviews and archival research to reveal the pivotal role of feminism in shaping her seven-decade story.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
235 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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Description
From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called "The Oral History of Our Time." Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most brilliant historian of the twentieth century. So did some of his friends, a group of modernist writers and artists that included E. E. Cummings, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 442 pages : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister, Jane, reveals how she was, like her brother, a passionate reader, gifted writer, and shrewd political commentator who made insightful observations about early America.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
415 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant, revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the author of the acclaimed international bestseller, These Truths. The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge--decades before Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica. Silicon Valley likes to imagine it has...