Bobrick, Benson
BOBRICK, Benson
BOBRICK, Benson. American, b. 1947. Genres: History. Career: Historian and poet. Publications: Labyrinths of Iron: Subways in History, Myth, Art, Technology, and War, 1981; Parsons Brinckerhoff: The First Hundred Years, 1985; Fearful Majesty: The Life and Reign of Ivan the Terrible, 1987; East of the Sun: The Epic Conquest and Tragic History of Siberia, 1992; Knotted Tongues: Stuttering in History and the Quest for a Cure, 1995; Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution, 1997; Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspires, 2001. Testament: A Soldier's Story of the Civil War, 2003. Address: 345 8th Ave, New York, NY 10001, U.S.A.
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