Books by Susan Nagel and Complete Book Reviews
Susan Nagel, Author . Morrow $24.95 (294p) ISBN 978-0-06-054554-3
The lively and sharp-witted Scottish heiress Mary Nisbet (1778–1855) shone as the wife of Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin and Ambassador Extraordinaire to the Ottoman Empire—whose name became associated with the Parthenon friezes...
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Susan Nagel, Author . Bloomsbury $27.95 (418p) ISBN 978-1-59691-057-7
What was the fate of Marie-Thérèse (1778–1851) after the beheadings of her parents, King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette of France? Nagel, professor of humanities at Marymount Manhattan College (Mistress of the Elgin...
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Susan Nagel. Pegasus, $28.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-64313-708-7
Journalist Nagel (Marie-Therese, Child of Terror) delivers an overstuffed yet underwhelming account of the development of Washington, D.C., as America’s capital in the 1790s. After prolonged surveys of European expeditions to the New World and...
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