Similarly, “Confection” — that glossy “cliff-face” of stacked pastries — reveals its true character only when you look at it from an angle and see its mundane, unglazed clay-slab ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, the blunt, brooding steelman Henry Clay Frick was bitterly scorned ... Henry Frick lived in two worlds, Sanger contends. “The internal world where he ...