Roy Morris, JR., Author Simon & Schuster $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7432-2386-7
For those who think the election of George W. Bush over Al Gore in 2000 represented the nadir of American electoral politics, Morris (The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War) provides some muchneeded historical perspective. In 1876, New York
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Roy Morris, JR., Author Simon & Schuster $26 (282p) ISBN 978-1-4165-9866-4
His 1872 Roughing It
was Mark Twain's sanitized version of his trip west between 1861 and 1866, and Morris (Fraud of the Century
) utilizes contemporaneous letters and diaries to separate fact from fiction about a watershed odyssey that...
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Roy Morris, JR., Author Vintage Books USA $16 (464p) ISBN 978-0-679-74398-9
Morris presents the first modern biography of the Union's great calvary commander, who fought the Confederacy in the Civil War and Plains Indians in the West. Photos. (Aug.)
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Roy Morris, JR., Author Crown Publishers $30 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-59646-3
This objective study of Bierce (1842- 1914), a journalist and short-story writer, draws a parallel between the sardonic writer's dark vision and his unhappy life. According to Morris (Sheridan) the depression Bierce developed during a lonely and...
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Roy Morris, JR., Author Oxford University Press, USA $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-19-512482-8
Since the 1980s--when scholars such as Michael Moon and Robert K. Martin reinvigorated Walt Whitman scholarship by queering it--the poet has inspired something of a literary cottage industry. Now Morris takes Whitman scholarship in a captivating new
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Roy Morris Jr. Harvard Univ./Belknap, $26.95 (260p) ISBN 978-0-674-06696-0
In this enjoyable biography, Morris (The Better Angel) captures Wilde’s yearlong 1882 North American lecture tour. Month after month, Wilde, already deemed the “public face of the Aesthetic Movement,” filled theaters and halls in 140 cities and...
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Roy Morris, Jr.. Harvard Univ./Belknap, $27.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-674-41669-7
For readers not familiar with Mark Twain's travel literature, Morris (Declaring His Genius) will open up a new facet of his extensive writing career. Under the renowned Mark Twain pseudonym, Samuel Clemens wrote and lectured around the world,...
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Roy Morris, JR., Author, Jim Wade, Editor Crown Publishers $25 (464p) ISBN 978-0-517-58070-7
Morris, editor of the journal America's Civil War , here presents the first modern biography of the Union's great cavalry commander, who died in 1888 at age 57. Sheridan's neglect by academic and popular historians arguably reflects the popular...
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