As James Collier, author of the biography Duke Ellington (Oxford University Press, USA, 1987) observed in his essay in Harlem Renaissance: Lives from the African American National Biography edited by Henry Louis Gates and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (Oxford University Press, USA, 2009), “Ellington developed a strong sense of his own worth and a belief in his destiny, which at times shaded over into egocentricity. [read post]

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For the past 20 years, LVMH has lobbied the Senate on a range of issues related to its brands, such as Louis Vuitton, Hennessy, and Krug Champagne. [read post]