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Budapest today is a palimpsest of its history and partially crystallized present. Its earlier history is best seen on the Castle Hill of Buda, the seat of Hungarian royal power since the beginning in the 13th Century. This peaked in the glory years of King Matthias' reign in the second half of the 15th Century, when Buda was one of the largest and wealthiest cities of Europe. The Ottoman conquest that followed a generation later was a catastrophe whose effect would last two centuries. However when the new Castle Hill of Buda arose, it became a version of Baroque central Europe, controlled...

A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award

Billy Strayhorn (1915-67) was one of the greatest composers in the history of American music, the creator of a body of work that includes such standards as "Take the 'A' Train." Yet all his life Strayhorn was overshadowed by his friend and collaborator Duke Ellington, with whom he worked for three decades as the Ellington Orchestra's ace songwriter and arranger. A "definitive" corrective (USA Today) to decades of patchwork scholarship and journalism about this giant of jazz, David Hajdu's Lush Life is a vibrant and...

Die letzte erhaltene Staatsrede des Demosthenes aus dem Jahr 341 v. Chr. galt bis 1901 den meisten Gelehrten als unecht oder bestenfalls von einem spateren Redakteur aus demosthenischen Stucken zusammengestellt. Sie spielte daher im Schulunterricht eine geringere Rolle als die spateren demosthenischen Demegorien und wurde entsprechend wenig kommentiert. Die vorliegende Arbeit erfullt daher das Desiderat eines wissenschaftlichen Kommentars, der sprachliche, rhetorische und historische Aspekte untersucht. Auch die Politik am Vorabend des entscheidenden Krieges zwischen Athen und dem...

Pop Music: Our Most Influential Laboratory for Social and Aesthetic Experimentation--Changing the World Three Minutes at a Time

Named a Must-Read by Vanity Fair and the BBC as well as a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly

In Love for Sale: Pop Music in America, from the vaudeville singer Eva Tanguay, the "'I Don't Care' Girl," who upended Victorian conceptions of feminine property to become one of the biggest stars of her day, to the scandal of Blondie playing disco at CBGB, David Hajdu--one of the most respected...