Claude Monet
1926 - Giverny
I am eighty-five years old and the garden is still outside the window.
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1926 - Giverny
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I am eighty-five years old and the garden is still outside the window.
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1926 - Giverny
Claude Monet stands at 1926 - Giverny, with connected routes through neighbouring lives, places, and historical pressure.
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In Oyster Bay, a former president burns with unfinished energy and the knowledge that the country moved on without him.
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1977 - Graceland
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In the upstairs office at Graceland with the curtains drawn against the Memphis heat and Lisa Marie somewhere down in the house, I am setting my own account down on a yellow legal pad in the days before the tour opens in Portland, Maine on the seventeenth of August, still certain that the voice and the show will answer when I call them the way they always have, even as the body slows under me and the house closes in around the certainty.
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1928 - London
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The woman who led the suffragette movement writes what polite history will refuse to include about the fight for the vote.
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1930 - Chicago
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In a quiet house in Chicago, a journalist who documented lynching sets down the evidence that America tried to silence.
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1914 - Tuskegee, Alabama
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At Tuskegee, a man who built an institution from nothing reflects on the cost of compromise with a nation that never intended to keep its promises.
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1934 - Chicago
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In Chicago, the founder of Hull House reflects on what reform cost her and what the Depression is doing to everything she built.
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1919 - Oyster Bay, New York
Physical decline, post-power irrelevance, and appetite refusing retirement.
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
In Oyster Bay, a former president burns with unfinished energy and the knowledge that the country moved on without him.
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1977 - Graceland
performance-and-fame
A contrasting life shaped by performance and fame.
In the upstairs office at Graceland with the curtains drawn against the Memphis heat and Lisa Marie somewhere down in the house, I am setting my own account down on a yellow legal pad in the days before the tour opens in Portland, Maine on the seventeenth of August, still certain that the voice and the show will answer when I call them the way they always have, even as the body slows under me and the house closes in around the certainty.
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1928 - London
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
The woman who led the suffragette movement writes what polite history will refuse to include about the fight for the vote.
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1930 - Chicago
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
In a quiet house in Chicago, a journalist who documented lynching sets down the evidence that America tried to silence.
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