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...Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Jonathan Cape) An award-winning biographer of Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll and a professor of English literature at Oxford university, Douglas-Fairhurst...
...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...Douglas-Fairhurst is, after all, the author of The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland....
...My personal style signifiers are Douglas Hayward suits and George Cleverley shoes. The highest part of my racing career was the ’60s and ’70s, which was a fantastic period for music and fashion....
...William Howard Taft, the 27th US president, had choice words for describing what should become of former occupants of the White House once they left office....
...Six months later, Mr Williams said, “the protests confirmed our decision”....
...Means well”, was his anagrammatic judgment on the Liberal politician William Ewart Gladstone), is just how much Carroll has inspired political radicals....
...It was founded in 1927 by cinema royalty — Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Mary Pickford and Louis B. Mayer — and hosted the first Academy Awards two years later....
...Trump Jr. duly laid all dictatorial parallels to rest by saying they had made “a great call” on Twitter....
...New York Times sports columnist William C Rhoden wrote a book on the rise and fall of the black athlete in 2006 titled Forty Million Dollar Slaves....
...Last Futures, by Douglas Murphy, Verso, RRP£20/$29.95 The 1960s and 1970s were, according to Douglas Murphy, the last days of the future....
...Morgan & Co – weeks before it merged with Chase Manhattan Bank to become the financial behemoth JPMorganChase & Co – Douglas A....
...He served his legal clerkship with William O Douglas, the illustrious liberal Supreme Court Justice and then went to work for Governor Edmund G “Pat” Brown, the architect of modern California whose son is...
...Along with Douglas Flint, the chief financial officer of HSBC who chairs the audit committee, they are the most influential figures at the company....
...Alexander Meigs Haig Jr was born on December 2 1924 in a Philadelphia suburb....
...Back home, he came under the tutelage of William Shawn, the illustrious, and also intensely shy, editor of the New Yorker....
...Another member was William Seward, senator from New York, whom Lincoln had beaten to the Republican nomination....
...William J. Conley Jr., securities lending Colin J. Corgan, head of US swaps trading. Jean A. De Pourtales, real estate investing. Giorgio De Santis, portfolio manager, quantitative investing....
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