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  1. James R. Gaines (born August 11, 1947) is a journalist and historian, the author of several books and the former managing editor of Time, Life, and People magazines.

  2. Mar 16, 2023 · An “exciting and enlightening revisionist history” (Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author) that upends the myth of the 1950s as a decade of conformity and celebrates a few solitary, brave, and stubborn individuals who pioneered the radical gay rights, feminist, civil rights, and environmental movements, from historian James ...

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  3. Mar 4, 2020 · Writer James R Gaines discusses the famed meeting between Bach and Frederick the Great in 1747, where the worlds of religion and spirituality collided with the rationality of early Enlightenment and the resulting fugue, Bach’s ‘Musical Offering’.

  4. Jan 8, 2005 · Strange meeting. When JS Bach met Frederick the Great the Middle Ages collided with the Enlightenment. Sparks fly in James R Gaines' Evening in the Palace of Reason. John Banville. Fri 7 Jan...

  5. Jan 21, 2022 · James R. Gainess “The Fifties” describes a decade when opposition to a stifling national consensus was costly and courageous.

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  6. James R. Gaines is a former editor at People, Time, and Life, as well as the author of For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions and other nonfiction titles.

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  8. Feb 20, 2005 · Gaines relates some hilarious incidents involving Lully, including his allowing members of the audience to copulate in the upper galleries of the opera and for being "outrageously gay" in public...