He wrote perhaps the most famous opening paragraph in sports-writing history.
Miller found what is surely one of the least-quoted Lincoln lines in speech-writing history, and Trump picked a spot in his speech to add it.
Because a middle-age HIV-positive man told me recently that he had been scarred with AIDS, looked like death, had no hope, and that now, 20 years later, he is undetectable, healthy and hunky, and is "re-writing history".
He also points to "fake winter palace or the fake museum" and compares it to the famous painting "The Storm on the Winter Palais" by Pawel Petrowitsch Sokolow-Skasja as examples of re-writing history.
But London pulled off one of the great "reflective" feats in novel-writing history with The Call of the Wild and White Fang, because those gripping page-turners are basically mirror images of each other.
"Speaking as a football-uninterested, poetry-writing, history-studying morris dancer and cook, Slovenia - a country that almost elected Slavoj Zizek - fielding a side that celebrates by doing a poncy little jig with a keeper whose scared of the ball - has my complete support," discloses Darren Allan".
Still, we can usefully think of philosophers' writings about history as clustering around several large questions, involving metaphysics, hermeneutics, epistemology, and historicism: (1) What does history consist of individual actions, social structures, periods and regions, civilizations, large causal processes, divine intervention?
Readers whose tastes differ from this reviewer's may find the food and travel essays delicious, while others will gobble up the political commentary and skim the writings on history and art.
What a pity he couldn't be here for a launch party at, say, the Algonquin.... Lesser writings aside, "History of My Life" is Casanova's main claim to the literary importance that he always dreamed of in the intervals--sometimes lasting for days on end--between chasing skirt.
Attendees meet once a month for ten months to address high-minded issues through the writings of history's greatest minds.
