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  • American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson

    by Peter Kurth ...
    American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson by Peter Kurth (197,000 words, 83 illustrations)Dorothy Thompson (1893-1961) was America’s first internationally famous female foreign correspondent. Born outside of Buffalo, New York, she graduated from Syracuse University in 1914 and honed her writing and interviewing skills in the women’s suffrage movement before heading for Europe as a freelance ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Isadora: A Sensational Life

    by Peter Kurth ...
    “How to make sense of this immense, complicated, beautiful and grotesque life? Many have tried: the Isadora Duncan literature is a tidal wave of loving reminiscence, obfuscation, self-glorification, infighting and supposition by those who knew her... And now there is Peter Kurth, sardonic yet appreciative, neither adoring nor denigrating... He has stylishly synthesized the literature to give us ... Read more

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  • Sordid Sex Lives

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