Brenda Wineapple is the author, most recently, of The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation.
Henry James is not a name that springs to mind when we think of adventure stories, prose epics or historical fiction.
“Paris is a very old story,” Henry James wrote in 1878–so old, in fact, that it’s hard to write about it without falling into clichés about chestnut trees, couture, freedom and
Brenda Wineapple