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A native Iowan, Wood (1892-1941) took up art as a teenager, drawing for his high school yearbook and magazine. He went on to study at the Art Institute of Chicago (where "American Gothic" now ...

Alaric the Goth. By Douglas Boin.W.W. Norton; 272 pages; $26.95 and £19.99. THE SMOKE began to rise above the orange-tiled roofs of the eternal city on August 24th 410AD. The watchmen had not ...