RICHARD BROOKHISERThree books, two I want to read and one I have.Duke, by Terry Teachout — I trust Terry on everything, especially jazz. His bio of Louis Armstrong, Pops, was a delight. Duke is the companion piece, the life of the other titan of golden-age jazz. From what Terry has told me, I expect Thackeray with a sound track: the story of an ambitious striver trying to make his way in a world that was only erratically hospitable.#ad#The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus, by Jonathan Franzen -- I am not a Franzen fan. But Karl Kraus, the early-20th-century Viennese
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