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Preface xvii
The Bumstitch: Lament for a Forgotten Fruit 3
How I Escaped Death by Snakebite: and Lived to Write About Beethoven 7
The Ccurfew Ttolis The Knell of Ppparting Day: Remembering Mr. Atkinson 9
The Last Snows of Kilimanjaro: A Lament 13
A Ghostly Tour with Tr: The Badlands of North Dakota 16
Documenting The Intangible: The New York Public Library's Dance Collection 24
Heard Melodies are Sweet, But Those Unheard are Sweeter: A Low-Calorie Diet for the Musically Obese 28
Theodore Roosevelt The Polygon: Address at the National Portrait Gallery 32
The Line of Concern: An Interview with Nadine Gordimer 51
A Strangeness in the Sight: The Shadow World of Tom Bostelle 56
The Pen is Mightier Than The Smith Corona: Typing and the Murder of Style 64
Music V. Musicology: Sir Donald Francis Tovey, Counsel for the Defense 68
Land of Lost Content: South Africa Revisited in the Last Days of Apartheid 76
Theodore Roosevelt The Writer: Colloquium at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars 95
Telling Lives: A Biographer's Quest for Temps Perdu 126
The Idea of North: Glenn Gould's Search for Solitude 132
A Hundred and Forty-Four Merlins: Britain's Imperial War Museum 136
We Came to America: The Irrevocable Act of Emigration 142
The Portraitist's Shadow: Biography as an Art 150
The Anticapitalist Conspiracy: A Warning 162
Every Sliver of Inlay Had to Fit: The Early Artistry of Evelyn Waugh 169
The Pain of Falling Leaves: Capitol Hill Loses a Tree 175
An Old Man Ought to be Sad: The Logical Life of Mr. Justice Holmes 180
The Ivory and The Ebony: Pianists and the Romantic Imagination 185
Women in White: The Memoirs of Laure Junot, Duchesse d'Abrantès 199
Undistinguished Americans: Short and Simple Annals of the Poor 210
Hunters of The Wild Guffaw: The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose 218
Which Way Does Sir Dress?: A Semicentennial Visit to Savile Row 229
The Rolling Tape Records, and Having Recorded, Rolls on: In support of Janet Malcolm in Masson v. New Yorker 237
From This Session Interdict: On the Eve of Another Presidential Inauguration 243
In Memoriam Christine Reagan: The President's Forgotten Daughter 247
This Living Hand: Ronald Reagan's Farewell Letter 251
Rock. Turf. Water. Lava. Sky.: Reykjavík in Retrospect 259
The Bill and Teddy Show: Mr. Clinton's Latest Presidential Performance 270
A Darwinian For Fun: The Evolutionary Education of Henry Adams 274
Pooh to You, Mr. Mayor: and Here's Fuzz in Your Eye, Mr. Prime Minister 284
A Certain Silliness: Ten Literati Choose the Century's Greatest English Novels 287
Bill Liar: Proceedings of an extraordinary meeting of the Ananias Club, 19 August 1998. Theodore Roosevelt, chairman. Agenda: Admission to membership of President William Jefferson Clinton 292
Here Comes Old Rushing Starlight: The Writing Life 296
Inside Jefferson's Cerebellum: The Library of Congress 300
Intellectual Integrity: The Novels of James Gould Cozzens 307
Sensitive Signage: Washington's Equal-Opportunity Airport 317
A Steady Hiss of Corn: The Letters of Ronald Reagan 320
Colonizing Outside of Cultivation: The Logical Fantasy of John Wyndham 326
Dot's and Dash's: Lynne Truss's Punctuation Primer 333
Leavings of a Life: Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1911-2004 337
Lady of Letters: Living with Sylvia Jukes Morris 355
A Musical offering: Bach and Fredrick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment 365
Contrapuntal Combat: Beethoven's Great Fugue 370
Wood and Wool: The Making of a Steinway Concert Grand 374
A Nation Full of Will: Kent School Connecticut Centennial Address, 2006 378
Nuages Gris: Colors in Music, Literature, and Art 387
The Other Side of Silence: Beethoven's Deafness 399
The African Obama: The Prepresidential Photographs of Pete Souza 413
As Much of a Monologue as Possible: Theodore Roosevelt at 150 417
Voice, Or Ventriloquism: Language and the Presidency 422
The Adventures of Sam Clemens: Or, the Autobiography of Mark Twain 429
Edison Illuminated: The "Life & Phenomenon" of an Inventor 435
The Ivo Pogorelich of Presidential Biography: Writing Dutch 442
Acknowledgments and Permissions 477
Illustration Credits 479
Index 481
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