History
Spying on America:
Leon G. Turrou’s The Nazi Spy Conspiracy in America
Leon Turrou was the FBI agent closest to the Nazi spy ring in America
in the late 1930s. His leaks to the American press and the book he was
allegedly writing led to him being fired from the Bureau by J. Edgar Hoover.
An Early Theosophical Controversy
By C. Jinarajadasa
The famous theosophist leader H.P. Blavatsky (1831-1891) claimed to
be in contact with the Adepts, the mysterious Tibetan prophets and seers
whose teachings inspired the early Theosophical movement.
The Thomas Starr King Dispute: Acceptance and Unveiling of the
Statues of Junipero Serra and Thomas Starr King
The Reverend Thomas Starr King took a struggling Unitarian pulpit in a
San Francisco that in the 1850s and soon found himself involved in the
desperate fight to keep California in the Union and slave free.
The French Foreign Legion: David King’s
Ten Thousand Shall Fall
The non-fictional reality is rather more stark and gritty, and perhaps this
volume is much closer to the truth—even if Gary Cooper and Victor Mature
(who both starred in Legion film potboilers) had a better time of it.
Baronial Bedrooms: The Kama Sutra of Grand Design
By Barbara Billauer Bailey
A grand tour of 700 years of palatial bedrooms spanning four continents
and ten countries. Beginning at a time when the bedroom supplanted
the salon or parlor, this book distills the essence of decorative features.
Harvard University Songs
by E. F. DuBois
At Harvard Eugene Floyd DuBois (1882-1959) was business editor of the
Harvard Lampoon, the humor magazine, and rowed. The collection he
gathered as a young student preserves the enthusiasm of another era.
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