Newsletter Biographile - July 31, 2015

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Jul 30, 2015 10:14 am Robert Bunch, Britain’s Unlikely Spy in the American Civil War Our Man in Charleston is both a page-turner about a British spy and a surprising look at Great Britain's role in the Civil War.      Jul 30, 2015 09:00 am John Ashbery: The Art of An Interdisciplinary Life 88-year-old John Ashbery's body of work has earned him copious literary awards, including the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.      Jul 29, 2015 10:01 am The Allure of Bank Robbery Explained in ‘A History of Heists’ Nathan Gelgud interprets 'A History of Heists: Bank Robbery in America' by Jerry Clark and Ed Palattella.      Jul 29, 2015 08:00 am Scribes Abroad: The Influence of Tocqueville’s ‘Democracy in America’ In the 19th century, French politician Alexis de Toqueville convinced his government to send him and his friend, Gustave de Beaumont, to America for nine months. The results were historic.      Jul 29, 2015 07:30 am The Quirks of Quantum Biology (We Are, Quite Literally, Stardust) 'Life on the Edge,' by authors Johnjoe McFadden and Jim Al-Khalili, is filled with frontier, mind-boggling facts from the field of quantum mechanics.      Jul 28, 2015 10:25 am In the News: New Bios of Shakespeare and Shirley Jackson, and More! Also in the news this week, Angelina Jolie takes on a new directorial role and a new Columbine memoir aims to shed some light on mental illness.      Jul 28, 2015 10:17 am Embracing the Imperfection of Atticus Finch My father kept his head down and his mouth shut. This was the best way for a black man to get ahead in the largely segregated America of 1961, the year To Kill A Mockingbird was published.