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American intellectual history
Author_Louis Auchincloss
Brutal Butchery
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City Of Light
Cocktail Shaker
elite policy makers
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FDR.
Felix Leitner's manuscript
Felix's Life
Good Life
Human Suffering
La Gloire
media influence analysis
Mother's Daughter
Mummie
Newborn Babe
Pilot Fish
political philosophy in modern America
political theory
Portrait Of A Man
presidential advisors
Puvis De Chavannes
Red Socks
Retail Business Men
Riggs Bank
Sea Water
Secretary Of State
Senti Ment
Tender Tooth
The House of the Prophet
twentieth century politics
Violated
Wall Street Law Firm
White Marriage
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780887388576
- Weight: 476g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 1991
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The House of the Prophet is Louis Auchincloss's searching novel of Felix Leitner, one of the most influential men of his time. Political philosopher, columnist, adviser to American presidents, Leitner will doubtless bring to many readers' minds the late Walter Lippmann, portrayed in the fine biography by Ronald Steel. Indeed, in his new introduction, Auchincloss makes plain that "the idea of writing a novel inspired by, though by no means based upon, the life of Walter Lippmann was unlike any fictional idea that I have had before or since." He candidly adds, "I was always perfectly aware the Felix Leitner, the protagonist of The House of the Prophet, would be instantly related to Walter Lippmann, and I had no objection to this." Whether considered on its own merits or as a major statement on Lippmann, this volume deserves close scrutiny.
Louis Auchincloss is a retired partner of the law firm of Hawkins, Delafield & Wood and New York. He has received honorary degrees from New York University, Pace University and the University of the South. He is author of many works, including Indifferent Children; The Injustice Collectors; The Romantic Egotists; Venus in Sparta; Tales of Manhattan; Reading Henry James; The Book Class; Honorable Men and The Diary of a Yuppie.
