Japanese prints: Realities of the "floating world" (A Themes in art book)

Arts & Photography

Williams, Marjorie

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The original Bucks Camp Log was discovered among the possessions of the late Glenn H. Williams. Here are the last days of the Wisconsin wilderness, when the howl of timber wolves carried through the pines and woodsmoke from the chimney of a secluded hunting cabin curled above that vast expanse of forest. Each entry in the Log is a captivating word picture offering exciting hunting adventures, tragedy, rare humor, woodsmanship, philosophical reflections, or historical sidelights. As day to day entries reveal the personalities of the members of Bucks Camp, the reader comes to know these men whose great friendship brought them together for the ritual of the hunt. The Log serves to remind hunters everywhere of the grand traditions and skills, the love of nature and comradeship, passed on for generations, that constitute our American hunting heritage.

The Bucks Camp Log: 1916-1928

Sports & Outdoors

Hunting & Fishing

Willow Creek Pr

The Cleveland Museum of Art's Art of Japan features selections from three thousand years of Japanese art assembled since the museum opened in 1916. Many works in the collection are recognised in Japan as being National Treasures, the highest honour given only to works of near-perfect artistry. This remarkable collection's catalogue depicts a vast array of objects which convey the poetry of natural materials, the earthy humour of some of the most spiritual imagery, the dynamic use of 'empty' space, and, above all, the constant theme of the relationship of nature and humankind that are unique to Japan. The masterpieces that appear in this book provide an unaltered view of old-world Japan.

Art of Japan: Masterworks in the Cleveland Museum of Art

GROSSMAN, NANCY

Channing, Laurence

History & Criticism

Hudson Hills

Marjorie Williams knew Washington from top to bottom. Beloved for her sharp analysis, elegant prose and exceptional ability to intuit character, Williams wrote political profiles for the Washington Post and Vanity Fair that came to be considered the final word on the capital's most powerful figures. Her accounts of playing ping-pong with Richard Darman, of Barbara Bush's stepmother quaking with fear at the mere thought of angering the First Lady, and of Bill Clinton angrily telling Al Gore why he failed to win the presidency — to name just three treasures collected here — open a window on a seldom-glimpsed human reality behind Washington's determinedly blank façade.
 Williams also penned a weekly column for the Post's op-ed page and epistolary book reviews for the online magazine Slate. Her essays for these and other publications tackled subjects ranging from politics to parenthood. During the last years of her life, she wrote about her own mortality as she battled liver cancer, using this harrowing experience to illuminate larger points about the nature of power and the randomness of life.
 Marjorie Williams was a woman in a man's town, an outsider reporting on the political elite. She was, like the narrator in Randall Jarrell's classic poem, "The Woman at the Washington Zoo," an observer of a strange and exotic culture. This splendid collection — at once insightful, funny and sad — digs into the psyche of the nation's capital, revealing not only the hidden selves of the people that run it, but the messy lives that the rest of us lead.

The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics, Family, and Fate

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

PublicAffairs

In 2005, The Woman at the Washington Zoo was published to major critical acclaim. The late Marjorie Williams possessed a special voice, one capable not just of canny political observations but of tenderness and bracing intimacy,” observed the New York Times Book Review.
Now, in a collection of profiles with the richness of short fiction, Williams limns the personalities that dominated politics and the media during the final years of the twentieth century. In these pages, Clark Clifford grieves in his laborious baritone” a bank scandal's blow to his re-pu-taaaaaay-shun. Lee Atwater likens himself to Ulysses and pleads, Tah me to the mast!” Patricia Duff sheds precipitous tears” over her divorce from Ronald Perelman, resembling afterwards a garden refreshed by spring rain.”
Reputation illuminates our recent past through expertly drawn portraits of powerful and messily humanfigures.

Reputation: Portraits in Power

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Woman at the Washington Zoo, a stunning collection of political portraits from the final dozen years of the twentieth century

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