Frederic Morton, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7432-2539-7
The author of two National Book Award winners (The Rothschilds
and A Nervous Splendor
), Viennese-born Fred Morton started life as Fritz Mandelbaum, his name Americanized once his family, fleeing the Nazis, began a tentative new life in New York...
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Frederic Morton, Author Scribner Book Company $22.5 (385p) ISBN 978-0-684-19143-0
In an astonishing work of literary energy and historical insight, the author of The Rothschilds brings us the backstage dynamics that preceded the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, the deed that precipitated WW I.
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Frederic Morton, Author Grove/Atlantic $0 (153p) ISBN 978-0-394-56070-0
From the unique vantage point of a passenger on a No. 18 crosstown bus, bound from the Upper West Side to the Upper East Side of Manhattan on a Saturday afternoon, Morton (The Rothschilds, A Nervous Splendor develops a seminal, elegant critique of...
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Marcia Morton, Author, Frederic Morton, Author Random House Value Publishing $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-55765-5
What was once lauded by physicians as nutritious, imbibed but not eaten, and seasoned with pepper? In a detailed, lighthearted history, sans recipes, the Mortons (his books include The Forever Street, hers The Art of Viennese Cooking celebrate...
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