Alyn Brodsky, Author . St. Martin's/Talley $35 (544p) ISBN 978-0-312-28737-5
Brodsky has written the life of a New York City figure that ought to appeal to readers everywhere. Brodsky (Grover Cleveland) admires the half-Italian, half-Jewish congressman and mayor ("the last great paradigm of honesty and incorruptibility...
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Alyn Brodsky, Author . St. Martin's/ Truman Talley $35 (416p) ISBN 978-0-312-30911-4
Born in 1746 in Pennsylvania, Benjamin Rush became friends with Benjamin Franklin when Rush was studying for his medical degree in Scotland and Franklin was a representative to England. Armed with letters of introduction from Franklin, Rush met with
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Alyn Brodsky, Author Truman Talley Books $35 (512p) ISBN 978-0-312-26883-1
This admiring (indeed near-hagiographic) revisionist biography seeks to portray Grover Cleveland--the only Democrat elected to the presidency between the Civil War and WWI-as a model of integrity and honor: ""To compare Cleveland with our four most...
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