• FilmcriticDanaStevenspullsthelensoutfromKeaton’s

  lifeandworktolookatconcurrentdevelopmentsin

  entertainment,journalism,law,technology,thepoliticalandsocialstatus

  ofwomen,andthepopularunderstandingofaddiction.With

  eruditionandsparklinghumor,Stevenshopscotchesamongdisciplinesto

  bringusuptothepresentday,whenKeaton’s

  breathtaking(andsometimeslife-threatening)stuntsremainmorepopularthan

  everastheycirculateontheinternetinthe

  formofviralgifs.Farmorethanabiography

  oraworkoffilmhistory,CameraManis

  awide-rangingmeditationonmodernitythatpaintsacomplex

  portraitofaone-of-a-kindartist.
  Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
• 1599wasanepochalyearforShakespeareandEngland.During

  thatyear,Shakespearewrotefourofhismostfamous

  plays:HenrytheFifth,JuliusCaesar,AsYouLike

  It,and,mostremarkably,Hamlet;Elizabethanssentoffan

  armytocrushanIrishrebellion,weatheredanArmada

  threatfromSpain,gambledonafledglingEastIndia

  Company,andwaitedtoseewhowouldsucceedtheir

  agingandchildlessqueen.JamesShapiroilluminatesbothShakespeares

  staggeringachievementandwhatElizabethansexperiencedinthecourse

  of1599,bringingtogetherthenewsandtheintrigue

  ofthetimeswithawonderfulevocationofhow

  Shakespeareworkedasanactor,businessman,andplaywright.
  A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
• EveryoneknowsthestoryofAbrahamLincolnsassassinationin1865,

  butfewareawareoftheoriginalconspiracyto

  killhimfouryearsearlierin1861,literallyon

  hiswaytoWashington,D.C.,forhisfirstinauguration.

  TheplotwasinvestigatedbyfameddetectiveAllanPinkerton,

  whoinfiltratedthegroupwithundercoveragents,includingKate

  Warne,oneofthefirstfemaleprivatedetectivesin

  America.
  The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President--and Why It Failed