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  • Collection: Christmas in the Works of Stanley Weintraub

Whistler: A Biography
New York: Weybright and Talley, 1988

p. 42

One of the great culinary events of 1857 for Whistler [was]...gala Christmas dinner conceived by Tom Armstrong and composed of all the foods they had dreamed of in bad…

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Victoria: An Intimate Biography
New York: Truman Talley Books / E.P.Dutton, 1992

p. 150

…The Court returned to Windsor for Christmas, which was celebrated in the German fashion. Gifts were placed on tables under small Christmas Trees with…

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In the later 1960´s, Mark, David and Erica, Stanley Weintraub´s children, wanted to persuade their father to let them put up a tree at Christmas. Until then he had been unwilling. With the encouragement of their mother, they developed a strategy. The…

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Inevitably, the tree had to get bigger, to hold Disraeli, The Last Great Victory, Uncrowned King, and now MacArthur´s War, Dear Young Friend, and The Importance of Being Edward.

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One by one the children left for college. The books continued to be produced, often from afar. They married....and their spouses (Judy, Carie Lee, and Bruce) took turns decorating additional matchbox books: The London Yankees, The Unexpected Shaw,…

The Playwright and the Pirate:
Bernard Shaw and Frank Harris:
A Correspondence

University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1982

p. 62


3 Washington Square, New York

Dec.23, 1916

My Dear Shaw:

I just want to send a…

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The last Great Cause:
Intellectuals and the Spanish American War
New York: Weybright and Talley Books, 1968

p. 25

Of the twenty-one Englishmen originally with the French battalion, only five remained to join the new British company, and, on…

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Silent Night
To be published in November 2001
New York/London: Free Press/Simon and Schuster

...along the front lines late in December 1914, to the dismay of the generals, opponents in the West laid down their arms and celebrated Christmas…

Shaw's People: Victoria to Churchill
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996

p. 19

...December 1899....the war (South African War) was going badly....For Christmas 1899 the Queen had sought a symbolic present to send to her…
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