Danny Heitman, a columnist for the Baton Rouge Advocate and a frequent essayist for national publications, is the author of A Summer of Birds: John James Audubon at Oakley House.
Frankness and plain speaking made Carl Sandburg a celebrity.
Henry David Thoreau went in for society, but on his own terms.
The journalist who pioneered serious film criticism showed a cinematic touch in all of his writing.
The misfit journalist felt at home in the marginalized world he wrote about.
The celebrated bird portraitist was also a great artist of the written word.
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Supremely Contentious
The Transformation of “Advice and Consent”
By Meredith Hindley
Who Was Westbrook Pegler?
The original right-wing takedown artist
By David Witwer
The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein
Was the den mother of modernism a fascist?
By Barbara Will
Friends of Rousseau
Some of the people he has influenced don't even realize it.
By Leo Damrosch
The Other Jefferson Davis
The U.S. Capitol, as we know it today, would never have existed without Jefferson Davis.
By Guy Gugliotta
