Tolstoyan

Richard Nixon -- who in his memoirs noted that he read Tolstoy extensively in his youth, even calling himself a "Tolstoyan" -- often sought out books with links to the big issues of the day.

For Obama and past presidents, the books they read shape policies and perceptions 2010

Nabokov saw something typically "Tolstoyan" in these repetitions:

Tolstoy's Real Hero Figes, Orlando 2007

One of them is Isaaki, a model student who considers himself a "Tolstoyan".

Desicritics 2008

Marxian dream, while Tolstoyan utopias and Kropotkinian communistic unions of shop and farm are too wild to merit consideration.

A REVIEW 2010

The Napoleon argument rests on the Tolstoyan claim that Napoleon's greatness was in fact a role imposed upon him by the faith of his generals, a part he had merely to act.

Steve Jobs: think different | Editorial 2011

"The War of the End of the World" (1984) is an epic novel of Tolstoyan grandeur and sweep.

A Rare Swedish Triumph Eric Ormsby 2010

Starr summarizes: Through patient, Tolstoyan labor,

Joaquin Miller 2010

Miller's justly celebrated novel The Good Mother 1986 is a Tolstoyan study of a life if anything too meticulously examined.

Madison Smartt Bell: A Shape of Things to Come Madison Smartt Bell 2011

Gone is a masterpiece that many critics regard as the best novel published this year, Alan Hollinghurst's "The Stranger's Child," with a charismatic, Rupert Brooke-type character hovering over a tale of Tolstoyan breadth that ranges from pre-World War I to the present day.

Time, Again, for Posh Bingo Paul Levy 2011

Like many things Tolstoyan, this is oversimplification at best, wrong at worst.

Patriotic Bias, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009