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Harold Holzer and the Neil MacGregor New-York Historical Society SHAKESPEARE’S RESTLESS WORLD THE CIVIL WAR IN 50 OBJECTS A PORTRAIT OF AN ERA IN TWENTY OBJECTS Introduction by Eric Foner In this brilliant work of historical reconstruc- From a soldier’s diary to John Brown’s pike, tion, MacGregor and his team at the British the Emancipation Proclamation, a Confederate Museum, working in collaboration with the Palmetto flag, and leaves from Abraham Lincoln’s Royal Shakespeare Company and the BBC, pres- bier, Lincoln scholar Holzer sheds new light on the ent twenty objects that capture the essence of war by examining fifty objects from the New-York Shakespeare’s world. Historical Society’s acclaimed collection. Viking • 336 pp. • 978-0-670-02634-0 • $35.00 Viking • 416 pp. • 978-0-670-01463-7 •$36.00 Available October 2013 NEW! Ada Louise Huxtable A HISTORY OF THE WORLD FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT IN 100 OBJECTS See Architecture, page 13 From the renowned director of the British Museum comes a kaleidoscopic history of humanity told Justin Kaplan through things we have made. Includes more than WHEN THE ASTORS OWNED NEW YORK 150 color photographs. “This continually fascinat- BLUE-BLOODS AND ing illustrated survey examines 100 exemplary GRAND HOTELS IN A GILDED AGE items held by the British Museum in London— “At once social history and cultural anthropology...a from a carved mammoth tusk to a credit card— distillation of a place and of a time by a smiling that characterize their eras and shed light on the and sardonic observer.”—David Aaron, Harvard forward (if not always upward) movement of the University. human race.”—Time. Plume • 208 pp. • 978-0-452-28858-4 • $15.00 Viking • 736 pp. • 978-0-670-02270-0 • $45.00 NEW! Nouritza Matossian Nasser D. 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