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Charm Offensive
He is one of historyâs great survivorsâ and opportunists. Born into the high aristocracy, Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord...
Atlantic, The, 12/01/07 by Benjamin Schwarz · More from publication -
Life in the Margins
The Cambridge historian Eamon Duffy has a genius for recovering worlds we have lost. In 1992 he published the revisionist The Stripping of the...
Atlantic, The, 10/01/07 by Benjamin Schwarz · More from publication -
The Other Elizabeth Taylor
The English author Elizabeth Taylor (1912â1975) is best known for not being better known. She was a member of that characteristically British...
Atlantic, The, 09/01/07 by Benjamin Schwarz · More from publication -
His Second Act
Frank Sinatra, the greatest vocalist in the history of American music, elevated popular song to an art. He was a dominant power in the...
Atlantic, The, 07/01/07 by Benjamin Schwarz · More from publication -
Where Mother Saw Best
The house nurtures our sense of self, embodies our notions of intimate family life, and serves as our haven in a heartless world. But itâs...
Atlantic, The, 06/01/07 by Benjamin Schwarz · More from publication -
Stalin’s Gift
Itâs time for those (mostly male) readers interested in the Second World War to put down that umpteenth account of DâDay and turn to the...
Atlantic, The, 05/01/07 by Benjamin Schwarz · More from publication -
“Show the Dress”
Gorgeously designed, handsomely bound, and abundantly illustrated with some of the best photography of the last century, this swank...
Atlantic, The, 04/01/07 by Benjamin Schwarz · More from publication -
Of Rivals and Revivals
Sometime intimate foes, sometime bitter allies, France and Britain have for centuries largely defined themselves in relation to each other. This...
Atlantic, The, 03/01/07 by Benjamin Schwarz · More from publication -
Becoming Cary Grant
"I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be and I finally became that person. Or he became me. Or we met at some point.â That meetingâwhen...
Atlantic, The, 01/01/07 by Benjamin Schwarz · More from publication -
Walt's World
For better and for worse, Walt Disney (1901â1966) implanted his creations more profoundly and pervasively in the national psyche than has any...
Atlantic, The, 12/01/06 by Benjamin Schwarz · More from publication
