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March Newsletter - Prologue Society
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Our next and final luncheon is on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - "David Finley, A Quiet Force for America's Arts" by David A. Doheny. He was first director of the National Gallery of Art, founding chairman of the board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and a key player in creating the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. How did he do it?
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David Finley A Quiet Force for America's ArtsDavid Doheny | Wednesday, April 18, 2012 ...The final program of our season features local Miami author and attorney David A. Doheny discussing his biography of David Finley. As the first director of the National Gallery of Art, founding chairman of the board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and a key player in creating the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., Finley used his matchless contacts and legendary powers of persuasion to establish institutions that today preserve and display masterpieces of western European and American art, a rich heritage of architectural properties across the United States, and an exceptional visual record of notable figures in American history... this book will appeal to scholars and sudents of history and of art.
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You Missed it!
Jennet Conant | Wednesday, November 16, 2011
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..Jennet Conant has a knack for illuminating the interesting personal details lurking beneath the world-changing events of our time. In "A Covert Affair", she describes the personal relationships within the OSS in China and Ceylon that would be a mere footnote, but for the fact that one of the spies was later to change American cooking. Julia Child, a World War II spy, is one of a triangle of OSS spies, whose lives and exploits are examined in "A Covert Affair". Since her husband-to-be, Paul Child, is also OSS, events, personalities and romance inevitably become a focus of the story.
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A Being So Gentle-
The frontier love story of Rachel and Andrew JacksonPatricia Brady | Wednesday, December 7, 2011
...Brady, author of "Martha Washington: An American Life" (2005), turns her attention to a dyed-in-the-wool American love story. Trapped in a loveless and emotionally abusive marriage, spunky Rachel Donelson Robards nevertheless fell fast and hard for Andrew Jackson, the chivalrous backwoods lawyer who ambled to her rescue.
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Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court Jeff Shesol | Wednesday, January 11, 2012
...Beginning in 1935, in a series of devastating decisions, the Supreme Court's conservative majority left much of FDR's agenda in ruins. The pillars of the New Deal fell in short succession. It was not just the New Deal, but democracy itself, that stood on trial. In February 1937, Roosevelt struck back with an audacious plan to expand the Court to fifteen justices-and to "pack" the new seats with liberals who shared his belief in a "living" Constitution.
The ensuing fight was a firestorm that engulfed the White House, the Court, Congress, and the nation. The final verdict was a shock. It dealt FDR the biggest setback of his political life, split the Democratic party, and set the stage for a future era of Republican dominance.
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Paradise for Sale
Nick Wynne and Richard Moorhead | Wednesday, February 15, 2012
...Internationally publicized as the happiest place on earth decades before Disney arrived, the Sunshine State experienced a brief and wondrous economic boom in the mid-1920's. Entrepreneurs and real estate developers became overnight millionaires as they created luxury seaside resorts, golfing communitites and country clubs. Greats, near greats, famous, infamous, movie stars, politicians, athletes, ne'er-do-wells, preachers, foreign royalty, con artists, educators, labor leaders, union members - every element of American and world society flocked to the 'Pleasure Paradise of the World.'
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Lost to the West The Forgotten Byzantine Empire that Rescued Western CivilizationLars Brownworth | Wednesday, March 7, 2012
...The once common idea that the lights went out on classical and Western civiliation when Rome fell in 476 AD has long since been debunked, but Brownsworth weighs in to illustrate that the Roman empire's center of power simply shifted to Constantinople. In a narrative by turns spellbinding and prosaic, Brownsworth marches us through centuries of history, beginning long before the fall of Rome, and introduces the successive rulers of Byzantium, from Christian emperors to Muslim sultans, detailing a culture he describes as both familiar and exotic. He follows religious, poliitcal and cultural change up through the Islamic conquest of 1453.
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