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The American Adam
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American Establishment
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American Nervousness
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American Renaissance
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An Artist’s Story
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Anti-Intellectualism
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The Antitrust Paradox
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APT
Richard Hofstadter, The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It (New York: Vintage, 1974; originally published 1948).
Aspects of Aristocracy
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Axël’s Castle
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Boston Irish
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Brideshead Revisted
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A Bright Shining Lie
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Centenary Remembrance
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Churchill
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The City in History
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Clark’s Leonardo
Kenneth Clark, Leonardo Da Vinci (New York: Viking, 1988; originally published 1939).
Collected Poems
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The Confidence-Man
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Controversy
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Creation of the Republic
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Culture of Disbelief
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Decline and Fall
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The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma
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Discourses
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Disraeli
Robert Blake, Disraeli (London: Methuen, 1969; originally published 1966).
Edie
Jean Stein, Edie: An American Biography, ed. George Plimpton (New York: Knopf, 1982).
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End of Reform
Alan Brinkley, The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (New York: Vintage, 1996; originally published 1995).
Essays and Lectures
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The Fatal Conceit
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FDR
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Fire in the Lake
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FND
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Frankfurter Reminisces
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The Good Society
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The Great Gatsby
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The Greek Way
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Growing Up Absurd
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Keats
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Lawyer’s Lawyer
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Lead Time
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Learned Hand
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The Lonely Crowd
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Lord Jim
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Lyndon Johnson
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Melbourne
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Mornings on Horseback
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On Active Service
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The Other America
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Palimpsest
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A Passage to India
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Personal Impressions
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Portraits
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The Power Elite
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Present at the Creation
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The Price of the Ticket
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The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (New York: Penguin, 1995).
Promised Land, Crusader State
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The Quiet American
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Radical Son
David Horowitz, Radical Son: A Journey through Our Times (New York: Free Press, 1997).
Reagan’s America
Garry Wills, Reagan’s America: Innocents at Home (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1987).
Real Lace
Stephen Birmingham, Real Lace: America’s Irish Rich (New York: Harper & Row, 1973).
The Rector of Justin
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Reflections
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The Right Places
Stephen Birmingham, The Right Places (For the Right People) (Boston: Little, Brown, 1973; originally published 1968).
Rockefeller
Cary Reich, The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer, 1908–1958 (New York: Doubleday, 1996).
The Roman Revolution
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Roosevelt and Frankfurter
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