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From: Diana G Wright <dgw1@nyu.edu>
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----- Original Message -----
From: John McMahon <mcmahon@maple.lemoyne.edu>
Date: Sunday, January 28, 2001 7:26 am
Subject: month, year

> 	Scripsit DL:
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> > Also, I've started to wonder if books that attempt to cover
> > the events of an entire year might be just a tad too ambitious.
> > Can't we get the list down to "month books"?  At the risk of
> > violating my "classics only" rule, I'd propose Barbara Tuchman's
> > "Guns of August" 
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>    Or novelistically, Solzhenitsyn's *August 1914* ...
> 
>    Yearwise more precise -- and it also includes a classical
>    reference -- but perhaps *Sextilis MCMXIV* would bring it into the
>    fold, in (pre-Eisenstein *October*) caps in this case, of course.


A tad show-off, perhaps:

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Karl Marx

DW


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>    John McMahon
>    Le Moyne College
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