Andrew Sinclair, Author Four Walls Eight Windows $22.95 (379p) ISBN 978-0-941423-87-8
The final part of Sinclair's ( Gog ) Albion Triptych will be intelligible only to readers familiar with England's history and mythology, and diverting to only a handful of these. George ``Gog'' Griffin, a student at Cambridge in the 1930s, is...
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Andrew Sinclair, Author Little Brown and Company $17.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-316-79236-3
Gottfried Reinhardt called him a congenital crook, John Houseman said he parlayed a pack of lies into a motion picture and Arthur Schlesinger eulogized him as the last of the giants. The author of this brisk biography provides plenty of evidence to...
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Andrew Sinclair, Author Hamish Hamilton $24.95 (321p) ISBN 978-0-241-12531-1
A Cambridge don and distinguished novelist, Sinclair refutes with this rich book the argument that England was artistically barren during the wartime 1940s. His elegant commentaries include lengthy selections from the ``lost decade,'' works of...
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Andrew Sinclair, Author Crown Publishing Group (NY) $22.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-58618-1
Historian and novelist Sinclair (War Like a Wasp: The Last Decade of the Forties) presents a daunting amount of research to support two controversial theses. First, he postulates that members of the Knights Templar, a medieval ascetic order that...
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Andrew Sinclair, Author Crown Publishers $24 (295p) ISBN 978-0-517-59476-6
This vibrant chronicle unravels the intertwined politics of Jews, Muslims and Christians over the centuries. Sinclair, historian (The Sword and the Grail), biographer and novelist, maintains that the three major monotheisms all embraced the idea of...
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Andrew Sinclair, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0604-4
In writing ""the first complete history of the Grail,"" Sinclair (The Sword and the Grail) demonstrates his familiarity with the copious literature about holy relics from the Byzantine Empire to Carl Jung with numerous allusions to religion, myth...
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