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Contributors Beginning with I
Ide, Karolyn |  |
Ierley, Merritt Merritt Ierley is the author of Open House: A Guided Tour of the American Home 1637-Present , published in March by Henry Holt, from which this article is adapted. This fall will see the publication of his book The Comforts of Home (Random House/Clarkson Potter), an extended look at the | |
Imctest, Imctest | |
Infield, Glenn Mr. Infield’s article is based on his book The Disaster at Bari , published this month by Macmillan. He wrote another book for Macmillan, Unarmed and Unafraid , a history of aerial reconnaissance (1970). | |
Iovine, Julie V.
Julie V. Iovine is a writer based in New York. She often writes on architectural subjects.
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Isaacson, Walter —Walter Isaacson is the managing editor of Time magazine and the author of Kissinger: A Biography and a forthcoming biography of Benjamin Franklin. | |
Iseman, Marjorie F. Marjorie F. Iseman is a free-lance writer who not only grew up in New York hut still lives and works there today. | |
Isserman, Maurice Maurice Isserman is a Professor of History at Hamilton College who specializes in modern U.S. History, American radical movements, and global exploration and mountaineering. Famous for his writing on the 1960s, Isserman's book, The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington, was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. More r |  |
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