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Joseph Addison: An Intellectual BiographyThe name Joseph Addison was once synonymous with the finest of English prose. Eminent writers from Voltaire to Lord Macaulay to John Steinbeck considered him a consummate master to be studied and emulated. According to Benjamin Franklin, Addison's writings "contributed more to the improvement...
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Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American LiteratureIn the late 1950s, Random House editor Jason Epstein would talk jazz with Ralph Ellison or chat with Andy Warhol while pouring drinks in his office. By the 1970s, editors were poring over profit-and-loss statements. The electronics company RCA bought Random House in 1965,...
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Among Friends: An Illustrated Oral History of American Book Publishing and Bookselling in the 20th CenturyAuthor: Buz TeacherPublisher: Two TreesPublished: 09/23/2023Pages: 576Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9780578325804This title is not returnable
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Aging Moderns: Art, Literature, and the Experiment of Later LifeAuthor: Scott HerringPublisher: Columbia University PressPublished: 12/13/2022Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.59lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.90dISBN: 9780231205443
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The Harlem Uprising: Segregation and Inequality in Postwar New York CityIn July 1964, after a white police officer shot and killed an African American teenage boy, unrest broke out in Harlem and then Bedford-Stuyvesant. Protests rose up to call for an end to police brutality and the unequal treatment of Black people in a...
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Nietzsche and Tocqueville on the Democratization of HumanityTo the extent that we worry about the future, we tend to do so with the apprehension that something may go terribly wrong. Nietzsche and Tocqueville on the Democratization of Humanity is animated more by the apprehension, what if everything should go terribly right?...
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Ukrainian Historical Writing in North America During the Cold War: The Struggle for RecognitionThis book is the first comprehensive survey of Ukrainian historical writing in North America during the Cold War. The author describes the development of Ukrainian historical studies in Canada and the United States as an open, sometimes difficult dialogue between the Ukrainian ethnic and...
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Jewish Imaginaries of the Spanish Civil War: In Search of Poetic JusticeJewish Imaginaries of the Spanish Civil War inaugurates a new field of research in literary and Jewish studies at the intersection of Jewish history and the internationalist cultural phenomenon emerging from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), the Republican exile, and the Shoah. With the...
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Hollywood and Israel: A HistoryFrom Frank Sinatra's early pro-Zionist rallying to Steven Spielberg's present-day peacemaking, Hollywood has long enjoyed a "special relationship" with Israel. This book offers a groundbreaking account of this relationship, both on and off the screen. Tony Shaw and Giora Goodman investigate the many ways...
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The Essential Writings of Vannevar BushThe influence of Vannevar Bush on the history and institutions of twentieth-century American science and technology is staggeringly vast. As a leading figure in the creation of the National Science Foundation, the organizer of the Manhattan Project, and an adviser to Presidents Roosevelt and...
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Faulkner, Aviation, and Modern WarFaulkner, Aviation, and Modern War frames William Faulkner's airplane narratives against major scenes of the early 20th century: the Great War, the rise of European fascism in the 1920s and 30s, the Second World War, and the aviation arms race extending from the Wright...
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Rivall Friendship, by Bridget ManninghamThe manuscript for Rivall Friendship was first acquired by the Newberry Library in 1937. At the time of the acquisition, the author of this seventeenth-century romance was anonymous. Scholar Jean R. Brink now suggests, based on dating of the manuscript and her analysis of...
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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume II: The New WorldThis history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of...
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Authors and the World: Literary Authorship in Modern GermanyAuthors and the World traces how four core 'modes of authorship' have developed and inflect one another in modern Germany through a series of twenty different case studies, including the work of Thomas Mann, Günter Grass, Anna Seghers, Walter Höllerer, Felicitas Hoppe and Katja...
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Japan on the Jesuit Stage: Two 17th-Century Latin Plays with Translation and CommentaryThe Jesuits were a major source of European information on Japan from the late 16th to early 17th century. Not only were they active missionaries but they also produced linguistic, religious and cultural tracts, regional chronicles, as well as hundreds of Latin plays written...
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The Italian Invert: A Gay Man's Intimate Confessions to Émile Zola"Each of us has his tastes inscribed in his brain and heart; whether he fulfills his urges with regret or with joy, he must fulfill them. He should let others act according to their own nature. It's fate that creates us and guides us...
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The Insider: A Life of Virginia C. GildersleeveVirginia C. Gildersleeve was the most influential dean of Barnard College, which she led from 1911 to 1947. An organizer of the Seven College Conference, or "Seven Sisters," she defended women's intellectual abilities and the value of the liberal arts. She also amassed a...
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Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American CultureRalph Ellison famously characterized ensemble jazz improvisation as "antagonistic cooperation." Both collaborative and competitive, musicians play with and against one another to create art and community. In Antagonistic Cooperation, Robert G. O'Meally shows how this idea runs throughout twentieth-century African American culture to provide...
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Big Business in America: The Corporate Century, 1900-2000This study analyzes the influence of big business on the economic, political, and social structure of twentieth-century America. The author examines the development of a mass production and consumption economy and argues that the corporation became a key institutional force in the United States.Author:...
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Margaret Thatcher, the Conservative Party and the Northern Ireland Conflict, 1975-1990The first woman elected to lead a major Western power and the longest serving British prime minister for 150 years, Margaret Thatcher is arguably one the most dominant and divisive forces in 20th-century British politics. Yet there has been no overarching exploration of the...
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