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Martin Duberman
Martin Duberman (born 1930)

historian, playwright

  • Horace Mann School, Yale University

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Cures
Mother Earth
Midlife Queer
Paul Robeson
The worlds of Lincoln Kirstein
James Russell Lowell
Charles Francis Adams, 1807-1886
Waiting to Land
Howard Zinn
Paul Robeson (Lives of the Left)
Hidden from History
Stonewall
Left out
The antislavery vanguard
In white America
Black Mountain
About Time
Haymarket
Visions of Kerouac
A Queer World
Queer Representations
Radical acts
The uncompleted past
Black Mountain-An Exploration in Community
Male Armor
The memory bank
Uncompleted Past
Jews, queers, Germans
Black Mountain
In white America, a documentary play
In White America
The abolitionists and psychology
A queer world
In White America
Queer representations
Black Mountain; an exploration in community
James Russell Lowell
Has the gay movement failed?
NYC Sex
Antislavery Vanguard
The uncompleted past
The memory bank
In white America
Robert Payne
Robert Payne (1911-1983)

historian, biographer

  • University of Liverpool, University of Cape Town

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The three worlds of Albert Schweitzer
The great man
Portrait of a revolutionary
Dostoyevsky
By me, William Shakespeare
The life and death of Trotsky
The great Garbo
The life and death of Lenin
By me, William Shakespeare
The holy fire
A portrait of Andre Malraux
The life and death of Lenin
The Fathers of the Western Church
A portrait of André Malraux
Schweitzer
The holy fire; the story of the Fathers of the Eastern Church / Robert Payne
The holy fire; the story of the Fathers of the Eastern Church
Leonardo
The holy fire
The Fathers of the Western Church
The gold of Troy
The barbarian and the geisha
The corrupt society
Ancient Rome
Ivan the Terrible
A rage for China
Eyewitness
The dream and the tomb
The white pony
The three worlds of Boris Pasternak
The rise and fall of Stalin
Chinese diaries, 1941-1946
Chiang Kai-shek
The life and death of Mahatma Gandhi
The Horizon book of ancient Rome
The terrorists: the story of the forerunners of Stalin
Mexico City
The life and death of Adolf Hitler
The island
Alexander the god
Mao Tse-tung
The Marshall story
A house in Peking
Ancient Greece
Chungking diary
The gold of Troy
The fortress
China awake
Forever China
The splendor of Greece
The Civil War in Spain, 1936-1939
Hubris
The making of the Christian world
The great Mogul
The splendour of Greece
Marx
The dream and the tomb
The revolt of Asia
Horizon ancient Rome
Mao Tsê-tung, ruler of Red China
Chinese diaries, 1941-1946
The life and death of Adolph Hitler
The young emperor
The Shepherd
The canal builders
The Lord comes
Mao Tse-tung
The tortured and the damned
The rise and fall of Stalin
Lost treasures of the Mediterranean world
The song of the peasant
Singapore river
The yellow robe
The Chieftain
Chiang Kai-shek
A portrait of André Malraux ...
Portrait of a revolutionary
The great god Pan
The three worlds of Boris Pasternak
General Marshall
The great Charlie
The splendor of France
Zero
The splendor of the Holy Land--Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon
Readers Digest Condensed Books
The world of art
Marx
The Christian centuries from Christ to Dante
Lawrence of Arabia
Mao Tse-tung, ruler of red China
Forever China
The white pony
Mao Tse-tung, ruler of Red China
The Lord Jesus
The Civil War in Spain
Gershwin
Mao Tsé-tung, un revolucionario
The emperor
Journey to Persia
The Great Charlie
The Christian centuries
The Splendour of Israel
The isles of Greece
General Marshall
André Malraux
André Malraux
The great Charlie / Robert Payne ; with a foreword by G.W. Stonier
Journey to Red China
The great god Pan
Caravaggio
The holy sword
Contemporary Chinese poetry
Andre Malraux
Gershwin
Mao Tsé Toung
Report on America
Mao Tŝe-tung, ruler of Red China
The triumph of the Greeks
Caravaggio
The splendour of Greece
China awake
The splendor of Israel
The roaring boys
The holy fire
The splendor of Greece
The revolt of Asia
Civil War in Spain, 1936-1939
Zero
The Christian centuries
Fabulous America
The Lord comes
The White Rajahs of Sarawak
The granite island, and other poems
The mountains and the stars
Im Sturm des Frühlings
Concord Bridge
The white rajahs of Sarawak
The Roman triumph
The splendours of Asia
The blue nigger and other stories
The terrorists
O western wind
The Lord Jesus
Red storm over Asia
The shepherd
The splendour of France
The rose tree
The deluge
The Deluge, a novel
The Civil War in Spain, 1936-1939
Liefde en vrede
The royal players
Massacre
Red jade
Blood royal
The mountains and the stars
The splendour of Israel
The Granite island
The civil war in Spain, l936-1939
The Roman triumph
The splendor of Persia
The White pony
The Christian centuries from Christ to Dante
Maharajah
The bear coughs at the North Pole
The Horizon book of ancient Rome
Brave Harvest
David and Anna
The white rajahs of Sarawak
The wanton nymph
The Civil War in Spain, 1936-1939
Journey to Red China
The war in the marshes
Torrents of spring
The Civil War in Spain, 1936-1939
Peking elegies
The revolt of Asia
Songs
The white pony
The Chinese soldier, and other stories
The Rose tree
אלכסנדר האל
Love and peace
Mao Tsê-tung, ruler of Red China
André Malraux
Red Lion Inn
The three worlds of Boris Pasternak
The Shepherd
The tortured and the damned
The mountains and the stars
The tormentors
The holy sword
J. P. Stern
J. P. Stern (1920-1991)

Germanist, literary scholar, linguist, philosopher, translator, historian, man of letters

  • University of Cambridge

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Hitler
The World of Franz Kafka
The World of Franz Kafka
Friedrich Nietzsche
A study of Nietzsche
Idylls & realities
Nietzsche
On realism
Thomas Mann
International gas trade in Europe
The heart of Europe
The dear purchase
Re-interpretations
The mind of Nietzsche
Thomas Mann
London German Studies (Publications)
London German Studies III (Publications of the Institute of Germanic Studies, Vol 38)
Benito Prez Galds Fortunata And Jacinta
Re-interpretations
Ernst Jünger
Lichtenberg
A study of Nietzsche
A Study of Nietzsche
History and allegory in Thomas Mann's 'Doktor Faustus'
Lichtenberg
Ernst Jünger
Lichtenberg: a doctrine of scattered occasions
Nietzsche
Ernst Jünger, a writer of our times
Über Literatur und Ideologie
Re-interpretations: seven studies in nineteenth-century German literature
Thomas Mann
Nietzsche on Tragedy
Re-interpretations
Thomas Mann
Nichʻe
Re-interpretations
Ernst Junger
David Hastings
David Hastings (born 1951)

journalist, historian

  • University of Auckland

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The many deaths of Mary Dobie
Odyssey of the Unknown Anzac
Over the Mountains of the Sea
Extra! Extra!
Antonio Senta
Antonio Senta (born 1979)

archivist, historian, translator

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Luigi Galleani
A testa alta!
Con l'amore nel pugno. Federazione Anarchica Italiana Storia e documenti (1945-2012)
Utopia e azione
Egon Caesar Corti
Egon Caesar Corti (1886-1953)

historian

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Ludwig I. von Bayern
Metternich und die Frauen
The destruction and resurrection ofPompeii and Herculaneum
The reign of the house of Rothschild
The reign of the House of Rothschild, 1830-1871
The downfall of three dynasties
Maximilian und Charlotte von Mexiko
Ludwig I of Bavaria
Das Haus Rothschild in der Zeit seiner Blüte
Der alte Kaiser, Franz Joseph I., vom Berliner Kongress bis zu seinem Tode
Aufstieg des Hauses Rothschild
Der Aufstieg des Hauses Rothschild
Mensch und Herrscher
Elisabeth, "die seltsame frau"
Maximilian and Charlotte of Mexico
Jane Williams
Jane Williams (1806-1885)

poet, historian, biographer

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The literary women of England
A history of Wales
Howard Hibbard
Howard Hibbard (1928-1984)

art historian

  • Harvard University, University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Bernini
Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Poussin: The Holy Family on the steps
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Masterpieces of Western sculpture
Caravaggio
Bernini
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bernini
Carlo Maderno and Roman architecture, 1580-1630
Essays in the history of architecture presented to Rudolf Wittkower
Architecture of the Palazzo Borghese (American Academy in Rome: Memoirs)
Bernini
The architecture of the Palazzo Borghese
Essays in the history of art presented to Rudolf Wittkower
Essays presented to Rudolf Wittkower on his sixty-fifth birthday
Bernini e il Barocco
Poussin
Prizes, Grants and Bursaries (Prizes Grants & Bursaries)