Mencken: The American Iconoclast
Reviewed in the San Francisco Chronicle who called it “memorable and engaging”.
Picked for the “Top Biographies” list compiled by The Denver Post. Also on that list, Cushing: A Life in Surgery
Stephen Goddard at Historywire.com says that Mencken “may become the definitive work on the life of this luminous personality”
The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets
Best Books of 2005 list at Economist.com “Possibly the first book designed expressly for Wall Street coffee tables.”
Two other books that made the Economist.com list:
Power, Sex, and Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
“Full of startling insights into the nature and evolution of life as we know it.”
The Oxford History of Western Music
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“authoritative, opinionated and controversial, which is not surprising given that all six volumes are written by one man—and the most prominent and provocative musicologist of our time at that.”
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