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Kirstein, Lincoln The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein. Martin Duberman. New York: Knopf, 2007. 723 pp. $37.50.

"Duberman enumerates Kirstein's many endeavors in this immense, exhausting, often workmanlike but important biography, the first.... Kirstein's network reminds us how much American arts and letters at mid-century were shaped by a relatively small, largely Harvard-educated, mostly gay group of men who always complained about each other and jockeyed over the most frivo...

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