But a book of history aimed at the lay reader?
On October 4th it opened the largest initial public offering (IPO) in Bangladesh's history, aiming to raise 4.86 billion taka ($70m) from Bangladeshis at home and abroad.
By focussing on meetings that President Lincoln had with lesser-known figures, such as John Ross, chief of the Cherokee, this history aims at deconstructing Lincoln's mythic reputation as the Great Emancipator to arrive at a more nuanced view.
The show, which mixes art, science and natural history, aims to explore how humans see animals, how we value them and what consequences that has for the world around us.
Individual religions thus represent stages in a process of evolution (i.e., progressive steps in the unfolding of Spirit) directed toward the great goal at which all history aims.
"I know things have been sucky around here lately," says Dad, "but one day I'm going to build something that matters" – which may be a little lacking as paternal advice but a great summary of the franchise's history, aims and artistic intentions.
Meanwhile, I'm not sure how devoted Baz Luhrmann is to the musical movement at the heart of his new, expensively glitter-bombed Netflix series The Get Down, but the Australian showman's hip-hop history aims to answer any queries about its cultural convictions with sheer choreographic attack.
But in March, when Mr. Graham applied for a mortgage, he said he found that his credit score -- a figure derived from credit accounts and bill-paying history, aimed at identifying who is most likely to repay debt -- had dropped and he could not get the rate he wanted.
In addition to technical works on Christian and Gnostic literature, his books included "Father and Son: A Personal Memoir of Senator Frank Church of Idaho," which was published a year after his father's death in 1984, and many works on religion and American history aimed at a general audience.
