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"Smart, bright, well-written, absorbing and informative...A book about cats as good as this one is rare." SMITHSONIAN A lively appreciation of cats from tip to tail, this witty analysis considers everything we think we know about cats, and offers something new, too. Meet cats in high places such as Winston Churchill's ginger tom, who attended cabinet meetings, and Teddy Roosevelt's cat, Slippers, who came to dinner. Filled with warm, vivid speculations on their lives and times, their social psychic, mythological legacy, and their impenetrable mysteries, this charming book offers a delightful and loving cat's-eye view of the world to be read and cherished by all their human friends.Holland, Barbara is the author of 'Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives' with ISBN 9780804112765 and ISBN 0804112762.
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