Newton Arvin's elegantly crafted biographies of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1929), Walt Whitman (1938), Herman Melville (1950), and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1963) constitute--to appropriate the title of a...
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Gerald Ford, now gravely ill, appears likely to be remembered more as a punch line than as a President. This rendezvous with parody is thanks in no small part to Chevy Chase’s pratfall impers...
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Gerald Ford, now gravely ill, appears likely to be remembered more as a punch line than as a President. This rendezvous with parody is thanks in no small part to Chevy Chase’s pratfall impers...
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