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His observations and recommendations can be read with profit and pleasure by professional planners and readers interested in what makes a city tick.\"--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\n\nNamed by \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e magazine to its list of \"Fifty Books for Our Time.\"\n\nFor sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major cities. 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She also documents--as seen through the eyes of Liang and Lin--the tragic events that ravaged the Chinese homeland and its people: the 1937 invasion and bombings by the Japanese military and the ensuing illness and poverty; World War II and the civil war; the rise to power of the Communist government in 1949; and the victimization of the scholar class during the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFairbank provides a highly readable, emotionally charged personal account of the couple's lives, and the numerous and sometimes horrific torments and humiliations they suffered. 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Readers will be captivated by this well-crafted portrait of a woman who challenges us to rethink our presumptions about gender and the emergence of democratic sensibility in the early republic.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\"Although it might be tempting to dismiss Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte as a curiosity--a gorgeous woman in a tiara and a see-through Paris gown--Charlene Boyer Lewis persuasively argues for her significance in this thoughtful and engaging book.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of the Early Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\"Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte's rebellious flouting of contemporary social and gender norms made her famous--and infamous--throughout the western world. Yet in the hands of Charlene Boyer Lewis, this is not just the story of a woman seeking fame. 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