THE BOOKS OF PETER C. SMITH Welcome to my Web Site! Aside from the normal wish of any Author to ensure that the work they produce reaches the maximum possible audience, this site has been established to showcase more than forty years of original research. Basically then the sites aims are to:- 1: Give salient details about myself and my published and prepared books to date. This section will be ...

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British journalist Leonard Feather was a jazz enthusiast who turned his love of the music into a lifelong career as a writer, producer and educator. He was the author of 11 books on jazz. He produced Dinah Washington, Charlie Parker, Sarah Vaughan and Lester Young, among others, and wrote the album notes for literally thousands of LPs. Feather was also a composer and lyricist. His work was ...

RANDOLPH BOURNE 1886 - 1918 John Dos Passos wrote, that if ever a man had a ghost it was Bourne: A tiny twisted unscared ghost in a black cloak hopping along the grimy old brick and brownstone streets still left in downtown New York, crying out in a shrill soundless giggle: War is the health of the state. Dos Passos, 1919 (N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1932), pp. 105-106. When World War I erupted ...

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The George Borrow Society The George Borrow Society was founded in July 1991 to promote knowledge of the life and works of George Borrow (1803-81). Meetings are held each year, usually close to the date of Borrow's birth (5 July). The pattern varies but may include the reading and discussion of papers, visits to sites connected with Borrow, and related social activities. The Society issues The ...

In his latest book, the life of Christopher Wren 'This lively, knowledgeable, affectionate biography ....Tinniswood excels.... (The Sunday Times) Available now from Jonathan Cape, this long awaited definitive study of the man and his works. Not only detailing his public architectural achievements but his much less well known private life. ''When we build, let us think that we build for ever.' ...