NYT Best Nonfiction 2019

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1. The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the friends who shaped an age

Author:

Damrosch, Leopold

Hamden/Miller Adult Nonfiction 3rd Floor

941.07/DAM

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2019

Yale University Press

vi, 473 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Hamden/Miller Adult Nonfiction 3rd Floor

941.07/DAM

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"In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk's Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually the group came to include among its members Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, and James Boswell. It was known simply as "the Club." In this captivating book, Leo Damrosch brings alive a brilliant, competitive, and eccentric...