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Some Great New Books!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 12.10.2009 | Books

Read More: Cole Porter, English Country Houses, Random House, Harvard, Yale, CoCo Chanel, Sergei Diaghilev, Newport, Country-Life, Dunbarton Oaks, Cecil Beaton, Santa Barbra, Janet Gaynor, Boston, Princton, Victorian Estates, Rockrfellers, Abstraction, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Les Ballets Russes, Sir Edwin Lutyens, New York, Beatrice Farrand, Edith Wharton, Homosexuality, Italien Villas, Gertrude Jeckyll, Pablo Picasso, Bliss, Carl Van Vechten, A'liea Walker, Susanne Tucker, Adrian, Books News

If one is known to be a lover of fine books, one of the best times of the year is quite near. Thanks to this short list of selections from Random House's Monacelli Press, we can happily enjoy some of life's finer pleasures.

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Museum Of The City Of New York Releases List Of 400 Top New Yorkers In History

Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York

Read More: Ian Schrager, Henry Hudson, Diane Arbus, Brooke Astor, Edith Wharton, Andy Warhol, Rudy Giuliani, Herman Badillo, Famous New Yorker, New York 400, Louis Armstrong, Museum of the City of New York, 400th Anniversary New York, John Jay, Jerry Seinfeld, Jay-Z, Walt "Clyde" Frazier, New York History, New York News

In honor of Henry Hudson's 1609 voyage across the Atlantic, the Museum of the City of New York came up with a list of 400 notable and legendary New Yo...

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Love, Politics and The Media

Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics

Though we have elevated women to prime political positions, the media has cast female politicians in an odd, almost asexual maternal role. They're not allowed to wander off the territory.

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Who's Happy And Why?

Ken Dychtwald Ph.D. | Posted 07.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Edith Wharton, Jimmy Carter, Martin Seligman, With Purpose, Ken Dychtwald, Happiness, Age Wave, Table, Living News

We're caught up in the myth that by achieving and going up the ladder and having more stuff we'll feel full inside. Yet it isn't so.

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Stage Door: Glimpses of the Moon, Marie Galante

Fern Siegel | Posted 12.13.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Theater, Off-Broadway, Entertainment, Cabaret, Metropolitan Opera, Glimpses of the Moon, Opera Francais De New York, Jazz Age Musical, Twenties, French Institute, Marie Galante, Alliance Francaise, Edith Wharton, Entertainment News

The young, romance-seeker asks: "Don't you believe in love?" Her more jaded friend snaps back: "I believe in Lehman Bros." In 1922, when Edith Wharton wrote those lines, everyone laughed.

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