Books by Russell Fraser

In this new volume, Russell Fraser assembles fourteen twentieth-century writers he judges "worth keeping

Shakespeare: A Life in Art brings together in a single volume Fraser's previously published two-volume biography (Young Shakespeare, 1988, and Shakespeare: The Later Years, 1992)

In this volume, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen explores the U.S. Constitution's place in the public consciousness and its role as a symbol in American life, from ratification in 1788 to our own time.

Explores the US Constitution's place in the public consciousness and its role as a symbol in American life, from ratification in 1788. As he examines what the Constitution has meant to the American people, the author shows that although there are recurrent declarations of reverence most of us neither know nor understand our Constitution.

R P Blackmur was an American critic and poet, as well as a professor of English literature and creative writing at Princeton University. This work tells the story of his precocious youth in Cambridge; his eclectic education; and, his years of poverty and renown as a poet, novelist, freelance music critic, and essayist.

Brings together the two-volume biography: "Young Shakespeare", 1988, and "Shakespeare: The Later Years", 1992. This volume provides an introduction that looks back on the author's lifelong commitment to Shakespeare's work and seeks to find the pattern in his carpet. It places Shakespeare's work first but shows how life and art interpenetrate.