The story of these months has been told before, but rarely this viscerally.
Much of the story has been told before, not least by A.N. Wilson in 1990.
Though the story has been told before, it is impossible not to begin with the Swede.
Randolph Bourne's story has been told before, but it loses none of its heroic qualities in the retelling.
Alsop's story has been told before, by Robert Merry, in "Taking on the World," and Edwin Yoder, in "Joe Alsop's Cold War".
This early story has been told before, as has that of Constructivists like Willys de Castro and the pre-Conceptual Waldemar Cordeiro in Brazil.
That story has been told before, on the page in Martin Gottfried's 1990 "All His Jazz: The Life and Death of Bob Fosse" and on screen in Fosse's scorchingly autobiographical "All that Jazz".
This, too, is a story that has been told before, recounted in a classic article, "The Silent Season of a Hero," which Gay Talese wrote for Esquire in 1966.
It has been told before, too, notably by Evan Thomas, in "The Very Best Men," about the early years of the C.I.A., and Hugh Wilford, in his valuable study "The Mighty Wurlitzer".
Although much shorter than the canal at Suez, it required three times the excavation and ended up costing four times as much.The tale of the French and American efforts to build the Panama Canal has been told before, particularly well by David McCullough in his 1977 epic, "The Path Between the Seas".
The tale of Confederate operations and intrigue in the Canadas in the 1860s has been told before, by Horan, Kinchen, and the late Robin Winks.
