Auchincloss's

Like many of his works, Auchincloss's Rector is in part about the tragic nature of lives that at first glance appear immune to tragedy.

Visions From a Vanishing World 2010

Auchincloss's answer is that his readers should care, for the specialized disappointments and frustrations of the well established are particular expressions of the universal truth that life is never precisely what we want it to be, no matter how many houses one has.

Visions From a Vanishing World 2010

Auchincloss's novels dealt with something timeless: "Not since Dreiser has an American writer had so much to tell us about the role of money in our lives," Gore Vidal told The Times.

Louis Auchincloss, Old-Money Scribe, Dead at 92 2010

Of course, Auchincloss's take on moneywas hardly Sister Carrie.

Louis Auchincloss, Old-Money Scribe, Dead at 92 2010

In Auchincloss's novels (and in The Catcher in the Rye), little is what it seems to be.

Visions From a Vanishing World 2010

Contemporary literary trends seemed to move away from Auchincloss's territory, but he objected to that view of things.

Louis Auchincloss, Old-Money Scribe, Dead at 92 2010

I guess you can't blame a 90-year-old for doing a little recycling, but Auchincloss's greatest book though I like his collection Tales of Manhattan a lot is his 1964 book The Rector of Justin.

brothercyst N A 2007

Auchincloss's book assembles a batch of Roosevelt pronouncements which speak tellingly of his character, including this on the feminist question:

The Performer Baker, Russell 2002

Auchincloss's judgment goes directly to Roosevelt's humanity rather than his political and diplomatic career, and it is Roosevelt's humanity that absorbs us in Theodore Rex as he comes to grips with an office famous for dehumanizing and breaking so many of the men who win it.

The Performer Baker, Russell 2002

The April date for the "too proud to fight" quote came from Auchincloss's book (p. 72) but I should have double-checked it.

'Mr. Fixit' Sinsheimer, Bernard 2001