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Book review — The Wonder Wheel: Harold Feinstein (Centre de la photographie de Mougins)

Book review — The Wonder Wheel: Harold Feinstein (Centre de la photographie de Mougins)
by Allan LEONARD
28 November 2025

Harold Feinstein (1931–2015) is the most unjustly overlooked master of the post-war “New York school of photography”. A child prodigy whose work was acquired by MoMA at age 19, Feinstein was described by his peers and students as part artist, par

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	Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism by Michael Burleigh, Allan Leonard (Goodreads Author) (Photographer) 3.50 avg rating — 274 ratings — published 2008 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Catholics of Ulster by Marianne Elliott, Allan Leonard (Goodreads Author) (Photographer) 3.84 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2001 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Pocket History of Northern Ireland by Gill Books, Allan Leonard (Goodreads Author) (Photographer) 3.80 avg rating — 20 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Troubled Images: Posters and Images of the Northern Ireland Conflict from the Linen Hall Library, Belfast by Gordon Gillespie, Allan Leonard (Goodreads Author), Gordon Gillespie 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Northern Ireland Means to Me by Allan Leonard (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Julia Paul (Editor), Quintin Oliver (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shared Space: A Research Journal on Peace, Conflict and Community Relations in Northern Ireland (Issue 13: March 2012) by Ray Mullan (Editor), Allan Leonard (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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140 Days to Hiroshima: The Story of Japan's Last Chance to Avert Armageddon

by David Dean Barrett (Goodreads Author)

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Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021

by Angela Merkel

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Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts

by Oliver Burkeman

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“I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first time I saw a ballpark. I'd thought nothing would ever replace cricket. Wow! Fenway Park at 7 o'clock in the evening. Oh, just, magic beyond magic: never got over that”
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