Philip F Gura is one of America 8217 s leading historians a prolific scholar who has dealt with a wide variety of subjects from the twang of banjos to the angry God of Jonathan Edwards His research and writing on the American Transcendentalists 8212 a 8220 club of the like-minded 8221 as

Did anything happen at Vatican II?

Over a century ago in 1905 an unknown young writer named James Joyce was having a hard time finding a publisher for Dubliners his bitter collection of tales about the home town he had already left physically at least for good Shortly before this in a famous letter to his lover Nora Barnacle

'Rome and Canterbury,' reviewed

'Classics for Pleasure,' reviewed

While Thomas Norman DeWolf 8217 s 18-chapter memoir Inheriting the Trade accomplishes an artful merging of historical explication with biography and travelogue not until Chapter 16 does the author 8217 s central thesis emerge Only then when DeWolf informs readers of his own abuse of privilege