Denis Brian, Author . Wiley $30 (448p) ISBN 978-0-471-33200-8
Without question, newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer lived a notable life. Born in 1847 in Hungary, he traveled to the U.S. as a teenager to fight for pay in the Civil War. He learned English, became a lawyer, got involved in politics and later in...
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Denis Brian, Author . Prometheus $25 (263p) ISBN 978-1-59102-357-9
This history of New York State's maximum-security prison also serves as a look at the development of penal reform in America. Sing Sing was built on the banks of the Hudson River in 1825 by prison labor. Brian (Einstein: A Life
) carefully...
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Denis Brian, Author John Wiley & Sons $30 (438p) ISBN 978-0-471-27391-2
Brian, author of works on Einstein and Pulitzer, fills a significant gap in the Curie bookshelf with this engaging book that follows five generations of the Sklodowska-Curie-Joliot family. Beginning before Marie Sklodowska and Pierre Curie meet,...
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Denis Brian, Author Grove/Atlantic $19.95 (356p) ISBN 978-0-8021-0006-1
""True gen'' was military slang that Hemingway picked up during WW II. It pertained to genuine, thus useful, information regarding situations that were often life or death. The term provides a fitting title for Brian's (Tallulah, Darling) marvelous...
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Denis Brian, Author Prometheus Books $24.95 (373p) ISBN 978-0-87975-899-8
Brian (Tallulah, Darling) mixes interviews musty and recent into a pastiche that questions the work methods of several prominent biographers. The outcome is diffuse, with some ax-grinding, but the author raises interesting points. Why did no...
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Denis Brian, Author John Wiley & Sons $30 (528p) ISBN 978-0-471-11459-8
With his halo of white hair, Albert Einstein looked the part of the century's secular saint, and Brian quotes a child asking, ""Is that the Lord?"" As the successor to Copernicus and Newton in revolutionizing concepts of the physical universe,...
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Denis Brian, Author, Alan Patterson, Afterword by Syracuse University Press $26.95 (266p) ISBN 978-0-8156-0927-8
Brian (The True Gen: An Intimate Portrait of Ernest Hemmingway by Those Who Knew Him) delivers a charming biography of modern Irish hunter and hero Patterson by highlighting his wide range of achievements: from hunter to war hero to family man....
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