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“... despatching the results to the same library. His diary eventually ran to three million words, and James Munson must be congratulated and thanked for reducing to publishable proportions this pioneering essay in what would later be called ‘mass-observation’. That said, I found Echoes of the Great War disappointingly sticky. ...”

“... professor and the ayatollah are oddly at one. Lewis’s view has been challenged by (among others) James Piscatori, in his book Islam in a World of Nation-States, which argued persuasively that the modern idea of nationalism has been fully absorbed into the mainstream of Muslim thinking, from Morocco to Indonesia. Lewis is implicitly challenged in a number of ...”

“... her Broadway-producer lover Bessie Marbury; the actresses Eva Le Gallienne, Katharine Cornell, Ona Munson, Teddie Gerard, Tallulah Bankhead and Hope Williams; the rakish lesbian salonnière Natalie Barney; Dolly Wilde (Oscar’s opium-addicted niece); Marie Laurencin, painter and friend of Picasso; the Ballets Russes dancer Tamara Karsavina; the photographer ...”