Facts and Inventions: Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell

by JamesBoswell (Author), PaulTankard (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2014

  $150.95

  James Boswell (1740-1795), best known as the biographer of Samuel Johnson, was also a lawyer, journalist, diarist and an insightful chronicler of a pivotal epoch in Western history. This selection of Boswell's journalistic writings offers a new angle on the history of journalism, and an original perspective on a complex literary personality.