Friendships Across Ages: Johnson and Boswell : Holmes and LaskiLexington Books, 2008 - 193 pages Friendships Across Ages is about how two friendships, one and a half centuries apart, between aged men of great distinction, Samuel Johnson and Oliver Wendell Holmes, and much younger, gifted, though flawed, men, James Boswell and Harold Laski respectively, resulted in writings of lasting importance. |
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