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Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History

by George Howe Colt

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In alternate chapters, Colt moves from a quest to understand how his own brothers shaped his life to an examination of the complex relationships between iconic brothers in history.
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fascinating premise; audible version is excellent though the narrator sounds a LOT like the old cartoon-character Snagglepuss...

The Colt Boys p. 1
Good Brother, Bad Brother: Edwin and John Wilkes Booth p. 24
The Fallout Shelter p. 83
Brother Against Brother: John and Will Kellogg p. 107
Baseball p. 167
Brother's Keeper: Vincent and Theo van Gogh p. 191
Under the Influence p. 257
Brothers, Inc.: Chico, Harpo, Groucho, Gummo, and Zeppo Marx p. 275
Aerogrammes p. 327
The Lost Brother: John and Henry David Thoreau p. 352
The Colt Men p. 394
Acknowledgments p. 421
Selected Bibliography p. 425
Index p. 447
  lulaa | Nov 23, 2013 |
Colt elegantly captures the complicated dynamics between brothers that both bind and define them.
added by JSWBooks | editParade
 
A great book - brillantly conceived, daringly organized, endlessly fascinating.
added by JSWBooks | editThe Dallas Morning News, Steve Weinberg
 
Part memoir, part exhaustively researched biography of famous brothers ... Insightful and harrowing and funny and stacked with stories.
added by JSWBooks | editThe New Yorker, Maile Meloy
 
An exploration of the full range of male sibling relationships. At its heart are five extended historical narratives, each emblematic of a different fraternal dynamic. ... Fresh, dramatic, and emotionally piercing.
added by JSWBooks | editNew York Times Book Review, Phillip Lopate
 
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If the handful of black-and-white snapshots that remain from my childhood is any indication, it's a wonder I didn't end with a permanent crick in my neck from literally and figuatively looking up to my older brother. Harry was born twenty months before me, and I worshiped him with an intensity that must have been both flattering and bewildering to the worshipee. I didn't want to be "like" Harry; I wanted to "be" Harry.
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From the book's back cover: Edwin Booth grew up to become the greatest actor on the nineteenth-century American stage while his younger brother John grew up to assassinate a president. Vincent van Gogh would never have survived without the financial and emotional support of his younger brother, Theo, in a clautrophobic relationship that both defined and confined them. Henry David Thoreau's life was shadowed by the early death of his older brother, John, who haunted and inspired his writing.
Colt parallels his quest to understand how his own brothers shaped his life with an examination of the complex relationships between famous brothers in history. Illuminating and affecting, Colt's magnificent book is a history told through the lens of fraternal rivalry -- and love.
page 412: Not long ago, I was in Dedham for a funeral. Before the service, I walked around our old neighborhood. ... The chestnut tree on Chestnut Street was gone. The jail that once housed Sacco and Vanzetti now housed the retired parents of our boyhood friends in luxury condominiums ...
page 412: I have known my wife for thirty years. I have known my closest friends for forty-five. I have known my brothers for almost sixty. We are the only witneses to one another's rapidly receding pasts, a vanishing world whose giants are disappearing ...
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