The president and the provocateur : the parallel lives of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald / by Cox, Alex, 1954-

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Plutarch's pragmatic biographies : lessons for statesmen and generals in the Parallel Lives / by Jacobs, Susan G.

Table of Contents: “…Training the Politikos under Rome -- Plutarch and His Audience -- Plutarch's Concept of the Politikos -- Plutarch's Audience as Politikoi -- Political Careers Open to the Educated Elite -- Conclusion: Implications for Interpreting the Parallel Lives -- Pragmatic Literature for Statesmen and Generals -- Advice Literature -- Pragmatic History -- Individual Lives of Statesmen and Generals: Nepos and Plutarch -- Conclusion: Implications for the Purpose of the Parallel Lives -- Didactic Agenda of the Parallel Lives: Insights from the Prologues and Synkriseis -- Statesmanship and Generalship in the Prologues -- Statesmanship in the Synkriseis -- Techniques for Reinforcing Pragmatic Lessons Across the Parallel Lives -- Conclusion: Didactic Agenda of the Parallel Lives as Pragmatic Biography -- Political and Military Leadership -- Pericles-Fabius Maximus -- Introduction -- Life of Pericles -- Life of Fabius Maximus -- Insights from the Synkrisis -- Coriolanus-Aleibiades -- Introduction -- Life of Coriolanus -- Life of Alcibiades -- Insights from the Synkrisis -- Agesilaus-Pompey -- Introduction -- Life of Agesilaus -- Life of Pompey -- Insights from the Synkrisis -- Ruling and Being Ruled -- Aemilius-Timoleon -- Introduction -- Life of Aemilius Paullus -- Life of Timoleon -- Insights from the Synkrisis -- Demetrius-Antony -- Introduction -- Life of Demetrius -- Life of Antony -- Insights from the Synkrisis -- Phocion-Cato Minor -- Introduction -- Life of Phocion -- Life of Cato Minor -- Insights from Analyzing Differences -- Conclusion -- Plutarch's Project in the Parallel Lives -- Applying the Exempla -- Reception of the Lives as Pragmatic Biography in the Western Classical Tradition -- "Pragmatic Biography" versus "Explorations of Issues of Virtue and Vice."…”

Plutarch's pragmatic biographies : lessons for statesmen and generals in The parallel lives /

Table of Contents: “…2.4 Conclusion: Implications for the Purpose of the Parallel LivesChapter 3 Didactic Agenda of the Parallel Lives: Insights from the Prologues and Synkriseis; 3.1 Statesmanship and Generalship in the Prologues; 3.2 Statesmanship in the Synkriseis; 3.3 Techniques for Reinforcing Pragmatic Lessons Across the Parallel Lives; 3.4 Conclusion: Didactic Agenda of the Parallel Lives as Pragmatic Biography; Part 2 Political and Military Leadership; Chapter 4 Pericles-Fabius Maximus; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Life of Pericles; 4.3 Life of Fabius Maximus; 4.4 Insights from the Synkrisis…”
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Plutarch's lives / by Plutarch

“…Plutarch's parallel lives…”
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A child of the revolution : William Henry Harrison and his world, 1773-1798 / by Booraem, Hendrik, 1939-2017

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Bright star, green light : the beautiful works and damned lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald / by Bate, Jonathan

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Angela Merkel : the Chancellor and Her World. by Kornelius, Stefan

Table of Contents: “…; Necessary Evils: The Chancellor and Her Coalitions; Pacific Dreams: Yearning for the USA; On the Defensive: Angela Merkel and War; The Light of Zion: The Fascination of Israel; Russia and Putin: Parallel Lives: A Much Loved Country, a Difficult President; Business or Conviction: A Conflict of Systems with China; The Great Crisis: Angela Merkel's Battle for Europe; The British Problem: Keep Them in.…”
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Rivers of light : the life of Claire Myers Owens / by Friedman, Miriam Kalman

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the wind -- Smug harbor: 1896-1912 -- A bundle of contradictions: 1909-1913 -- Rote Hill: 1913-1916 -- Be wise: 1916-1917 -- Nithking: 1917-1919 -- New chimera: 1919-1920 -- Rivers of light: 1921-1931 -- If it's predictable: 1928-1935 -- Parallel letters/parallel lives: 1930-1935 -- "The wolfe" at the door: 1935-1937 -- Expiedway ten: 1937-1949 -- Awakening: discovery of the self: 1949-1963 -- The lady and her court: 1963-1969 -- The end is the beginning: 1970-1976 -- "Grande amoureuse": 1976-1983.…”
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Writing history in Renaissance Italy : Leonardo Bruni and the uses of the past / by Ianziti, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Medici Florence -- Parallel Lives: Dante and Petrarch -- Bruni, the Medici, and the Florentine Histories -- The Florentine Histories: From Policy to Propaganda --pt. 4. …”
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William Dean Howells : a writer's life / by Goodman, Susan, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Chronology of Howells' life and work -- Parallel lives -- Warring ambitions, 1851/1859 -- Years of decision, 1859/1861 -- Consul at Venice, 1861/1865 -- Atlantic years, 1 : 1865/1867 -- Atlantic years, 2 : 1867/1871 -- His Mark Twain, from 1869 -- Fictional lives, 1871/1878 -- From Venice as far as Belmont, 1878/1882 -- In England and Italy, 1882/1883 -- The man of business, 1883/1886 -- Heartache and horror, 1886/1890 -- Words and deeds, 1890/1894 -- Peripatetic, 1895/1899 -- Kittery Point, 1900/1905 -- Greater losses, 1906/1910 -- Reconsiderations, 1911/1917 -- Eighty years and after, 1918/1920.…”
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Finding myself in Britain : our search for faith, home & true identity / by Pye, Amy Boucher

Table of Contents: “…Queuing, and Other British Sports; 20. Parallel Lives…”
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A Psychobiography of Bobby Fischer : Understanding the Genius, Mystery, and Psychological Decline of a World Chess Champion. by Ponterotto, Joseph G.

Table of Contents: “…THE MYSTERY OF BOBBY FISCHER'S PATERNITY; Chapter Six -- THE MIND AND INNER LIFE OF BOBBY FISCHER; Chapter Seven -- A PSYCHOLOGICAL AUTOPSY OF BOBBY FISCHER; Chapter Eight -- THE PARALLEL LIVES AND MENTAL ILLNESSES OF PAUL MORPHY AND BOBBY FISCHER.…”
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Stravinsky and his world /

Table of Contents: “…Fay, Alexandra Grabarchuk, and Tamara Levitz -- Stravinsky's Russian library / Tatiana Baranova Monighetti -- The futility of exhortation: pleading in Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and Orpheus / Gretchen Horlacher -- Symphonies and Funeral games: Lourié's critique of Stravinsky's neoclassicism / Klára Móricz -- Arthur Lourié's Eurasianist and neo-Thomist responses to the crisis of art / introduction and notes by Klára Móricz ; translation by Bridget Behrmann, Katya Ermolaev, Yasha Klots, Tamara Levitz, Klára Móricz, and Boris Wolfson -- Igor the Angeleno: the Mexican connection / Tamara Levitz -- Stravinsky speaks to the Spanish-speaking world / introduction by Leonora Saavedra ; interviews translated by Mariel Fiori in collaboration with Tamara Levitz ; document notes by Tamara Levitz -- The Poétique musicale: a counterpoint in three voices / Valérie Dufour ; translated by Bridget Behrmann and Tamara Levitz -- Stravinsky : the view from Russia / Svetlana Savenko ; translated by Philipp Penka -- Stravinsky's cold war: letters about the composer's return to Russia, 1960-1963 / letters translated by Philipp Penka with Alexandra Grabarchuk ; introduction, commentary, and notes by Tamara Levitz -- "The precision of poetry and the exactness of pure science": The parallel lives of Vladimir Nabokov and Igor Stravinsky / Leon Botstein.…”
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Stravinsky and his world /

Table of Contents: “…Fay, Alexandra Grabarchuk, and Tamara Levitz -- Stravinsky's Russian library / Tatiana Baranova Monighetti -- The futility of exhortation: pleading in Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and Orpheus / Gretchen Horlacher -- Symphonies and Funeral games: Lourié's critique of Stravinsky's neoclassicism / Klára Móricz -- Arthur Lourié's Eurasianist and neo-Thomist responses to the crisis of art / introduction and notes by Klára Móricz ; translation by Bridget Behrmann, Katya Ermolaev, Yasha Klots, Tamara Levitz, Klára Móricz, and Boris Wolfson -- Igor the Angeleno: the Mexican connection / Tamara Levitz -- Stravinsky speaks to the Spanish-speaking world / introduction by Leonora Saavedra ; interviews translated by Mariel Fiori in collaboration with Tamara Levitz ; document notes by Tamara Levitz -- The Poétique musicale: a counterpoint in three voices / Valérie Dufour ; translated by Bridget Behrmann and Tamara Levitz -- Stravinsky : the view from Russia / Svetlana Savenko ; translated by Philipp Penka -- Stravinsky's cold war: letters about the composer's return to Russia, 1960-1963 / letters translated by Philipp Penka with Alexandra Grabarchuk ; introduction, commentary, and notes by Tamara Levitz -- "The precision of poetry and the exactness of pure science": The parallel lives of Vladimir Nabokov and Igor Stravinsky / Leon Botstein.…”
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Tokyo Rose/an American patriot : a dual biography / by Close, Frederick Phelps, 1943-

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Atlantic biographies : individuals and peoples in the Atlantic world /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Indigenous leaders and the Atlantic world: the parallel lives of Dom Antonio Filipe Camarao and Pieter Poty, 1600-1650 / Mark Meuwese -- Law and colonial reform in the 18th century Spanish world: the life of Francisco Xavier Gamboa, Mexican lawyer / Christopher Albi -- Benkos Bioho: African Maroon leadership in New Grenada / Omar H. …”
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Angel De Cora, Karen Thronson, and the art of place : how two Midwestern women used art to negotiate migration and dispossession / by Sutton, Elizabeth A.

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Maria Petyt : a Carmelite mystic in wartime /

Table of Contents: “…Living as a Spiritual Virgin and Claiming Prophetic Authority: The Parallel Lives of Maria Petyt and Antoinette Bourignon / Mirjam de Baar -- Part 2. …”
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In the shadow of the bomb : Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the moral responsibility of the scientist / by Schweber, S. S.

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