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Summary: Shares the story behind the creation of Sargent's famous painting, which propelled the artist to fame but condemned his young subject to a lifetime of ridicule and self-loathing due to the work's perceived sexuality.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin Group 2003
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Summary: Documents the 1901 White House dinner shared by former slave Booker T. Washington and President Theodore Roosevelt, documenting the ensuing scandal and the ways in which the event reflected post-Civil War politics and race relations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 DAVchat loading...