Publication date: 1965
Review Abraham Lincoln's Philosophy of Common Sense An Analytical biography of a Great Mind *3 Volumes* / NY Academy of Sciences:
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1985-07-23
Dewey code: 973.820924
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Review The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Volume 14: February 21 - April 30, 1865 (U S Grant Papers) / Southern Illinois University Press:On March 29, Grant opened the Appomattox campaign, informing Sheridan that “I now feel like ending the matter. ” Despite pleas to cancel the offensive because of adverse weather, Grant pressed ahead. Sheridan won the battle of Five Forks on April 1, and the next day Grant overran Lee’s lines at Petersburg, forcing the evacuation of Richmond. Grant’s mastery was never more apparent than during his last battle. “I shall press the pursuit to the end,” he wrote to Sherman, and by April 19 Lee had to choose between capitulation or annihilation. With the surrender at Appomattox, Grant demonstrated his capacity for making peace as well as for waging war. In the frantic aftermath of Lincoln’s death, Grant maintained his customary levelheadedness despite clamor for vengeance. He hoped that in President Andrew Johnson “we will find a man disposed and capable of conducting the government in its old channel. ”.
Creator: Brent Notbohm
Publication date: 2000-04
Dewey code: 791.430233092
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Review Steven Spielberg: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series) / University Press of Mississippi:Steven Spielberg has become a brand name and a force that extends far beyond the movie screen. Phrases like "phone home" and the music score from Jaws are now part of our cultural script, appearing in commercials, comedy routines, and common conversation. Yet few scholars have devoted time to studying Spielberg's vast output of popular films despite the director's financial and aesthetic achievements. Spanning twenty-five years of Spielberg's career, Steven Spielberg: Interviews explores the issues, the themes, and the financial considerations surrounding his work. The blockbuster creator of E. T. , Jaws, and Schindler's List talks about dreams and the almighty dollar. "I'm not really interested in making money," he says. "That's always come as the result of success, but it's not been my goal, and I've had a tough time proving that to people. " Ranging from Spielberg's twenties to his mid-fifties, the interviews chart his evolution from a brash young filmmaker trying to make his way in Hollywood, to his spectacular blockbuster triumphs, to his maturation as a director seeking to inspire the imagination with meaningful subjects. [+]The Steven Spielberg who emerges in these talks is a complex mix of businessman and artist, of arrogance and insecurity, of shallowness and substance. Often interviewers will uncover the director's human side, noting how changes in Spielberg's personal life - marriage, divorce, fatherhood, remarriage - affect his movies. But always the interviewers find keys to the story-telling and filmmaking talent that have made Spielberg's characters and themes shape our times and inhabit our dreams. "Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about," he says. "Whether you watch eight hours of Shoah or whether it's Ghostbusters, when the lights go down in the theater and the movie fades in, it's magic. " Lester D. Friedman teaches medical humanities and bioethics at Upstate Medical University and cinema studies in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. Brent Notbohm of Spring Green, Wisconsin, is a freelance instructor of film production and media studies. He has written and directed several films and videos independently and as a graduate student at Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.
Creator: Robert D. Denham
Publication date: 1997-12-27
Dewey code: 809
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Review Northrop Frye's Student Essays, 1932-1938 (Collected Works of Northrop Frye) / University of Toronto Press:'Frye was a person of uncommon gifts, and very little that came from his pen is without interest. ' So writes Robert Denham in his introduction to this unique collection of twenty-two papers written by Northrop Frye during his student years. Made public only after Frye's death in 1991, all but one of the essays are published here for the first time. The majority of these papers were written for courses at Emmanuel College, the theology school of Victoria College at the University of Toronto. Essays such as 'The Concept of Sacrifice,' 'The Fertility Cults,' and 'The Jewish Background of the New Testament' reveal the links between Frye's early research in theology and the form and content of his later criticism. It is clear that even as a theology student Frye's first impulse was always that of the cultural critic. The papers on Calvin, Eliot, Chaucer, Wyndham Lewis, and on the forms of prose fiction show Frye as precociously witty, rigorous, and incisive - a gifted writer who clearly found his voice before his last undergraduate year. David Lodge wrote in the New Statesman: 'There are not many critics whose twenty-year-old book reviews one can read with pleasure and instruction, but Frye is an exception to most rules. ' Northrop Frye's student essays provide pleasure and instruction through their comments on the Augustinian view of history, on beauty, truth, and goodness, on literary symbolism and tradition.
Creator: Julian P. Boyd
Publication date: 1950-11-01
Dewey code: 973.46092
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Review The Papers of Thomas Jefferson / Princeton University Press:
Creator: Blair Sullivan
Publication date: 2001-12
Dewey code: 970.015092
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Review Las Casas on Columbus: The Third Voyage (Repertorium Columbianum, 11) / Brepols Publishers:This edition and translation of Las Casas?s narrative, transmitted in his Historia de las Indias, of Columbus?s third voyage in 1498?1500 to Trinidad and the Gulf of Paria, then on to Hispaniola, completes the coverage of the Columbian voyages contained in volumes 6 and 7 of the Repertorium Columbianum. The narrative opens on a high note with the first European sighting of the mainland of South America, Columbus?s lyrical response to the beauty of its abundant flora and fauna, friendly encounters with the Indians of Paria, and intimations that the expedition might have stumbled onto the threshold of the earthly paradise. It closes, however, in a somber vein with what Las Casas aptly termed the ?fall? of the admiral, who had been ousted from his governorship for mismanagement of the young colony and shipped home ignominiously to face an uncertain reception at the court of Fernando and Isabel. Las Casas?s commentary is largely centered on moral and political issues, particularly on the contradictory implications of Columbus?s actions: on the one hand as the explorer who opened up a new world for Christian evangelization, and on the other as the viceroy whose brutal and ineffective administration of this new world proved so disastrous for its indigenous inhabitants. The former he judges positively and the latter negatively, never mincing his words. Indeed, this fascinating text can be read as a dialogue between Las Casas and Columbus in which Las Casas constantly quotes the admiral?s letters and then glosses them with his own observations, guided by moral and eschatological themes.
Publication date: 1995-12
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Review Marilyn Monroe / Ultramar:
Creator: Robert Cooper
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Publication date: 2002-12-20
Review A Winter with Robert Burns: His Patrons and Associates in Edinburgh During 1786-7 / Masonic Publishing Company:
Creator: Barbara B. Oberg
Publication date: 2003-01-06
Dewey code: 973.46092
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Review The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 30: 1 January 1798 to 31 January 1799 (Papers of Thomas Jefferson) / Princeton University Press:During the thirteen months covered by this volume, Thomas Jefferson spent more than half of his time in Philadelphia serving as vice president under President John Adams and presiding over a Senate that was dominated by his political opponents, the Federalists. Debates in Congress took place against a backdrop of bitter partisan rivalry, characterized most famously by the near-brawl on the floor of the House between Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold. Congress and the nation waited, in a "state of extraordinary suspense," for dispatches from the American envoys in France. When the accounts of the XYZ Affair became public, the nation prepared for war. Two days after the Alien Friends Act was signed into law Jefferson left for Monticello, stopping at Montpelier to convey the latest news to James Madison. Disheartened and frustrated by the Alien and Sedition Acts, Jefferson penned the famous resolutions adopted in November by the Kentucky legislature. He kept his authorship a secret, however, seeking to avoid any appearance of "rashness" by Republicans. This endeavor reflected his struggle to make sense of the political direction of the nation in times he could neither comprehend nor accept. Jefferson continued to engage in scientific pursuits and fulfill his role as a promoter of American science and learning. He was reelected to the presidency of the American Philosophical Society, to which he presented his paper on the moldboard plow. [+]He corresponded on American Indian languages, astronomy, and the Anglo-Saxon language. He longed for Monticello, and, as Jefferson had learned before, his property fell into neglect when he was away on public business. Renovations to the house slowed, supplies for the nailery were disrupted, and he had to arrange for the sale of his crops through intermediaries. With the prices of wheat low, he was drawn back into financial dependence on tobacco.
Creator: Edward Wachtel
Publication date: 2005-06-30
Dewey code: 302.23092
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Review The Legacy of McLuhan (Hampton Press Communication) / Hampton Press:This volume of original research contributes to the renewal of interest in Marshall McLuhan and his work. In Section One, four chapters provide a general discussion of McLuhan's work. The chapters in the second section present the reactions of five media professionals to McLuhan and his work. The third section explores topics that go to the heart of McLuhan's theories; the linearity of written communication, perception as it is reflected in artistic expression, and media semiotics. Section Four emphasizes the humanistic basis of McLuhan's thought and its applications. Chapters in the fifth section cover the sector of scholarship for which McLuhan is best known. Chapters in the final section examine his work in light of theory and research on the new media of the past two decades.
Publication date: 1992-07-30
Dewey code: 330.092
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Review William J. Fellner: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Economics) / Greenwood Press:The volume is made up of three main chapters. The first provides a biography of Fellner. The second is an annotated bibliography of Fellner's published works and includes sections on books he wrote, his articles and essays, books he edited, and his public remarks. The third chapter is an annotated bibliography of works about Fellner and his ideas. This volume also includes name and subject indexes. In a volume that will be both useful to the professional economist and accessible to the nonspecialist, this bio-bibliography provides a guide to the work of William J. Fellner, a respected economist, policy adviser, and highly regarded member of the public policy research establishment. His work contains the full sweep of contemporary economic thought. The volume includes a biography, an annotated bibliography of Fellner's published works, and an annotated bibliography of works about Fellner and his ideas. It also includes name and subject indexes.
Creator: John Y Simon
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2000-05-17
Dewey code: 973.820924
List Price: $100.00
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Review The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Volume 23: February 1 - December 31, 1872 (U S Grant Papers) / Southern Illinois University Press:Notified of his nomination for a second term in June 1872, Ulysses S. Grant accepted, promising "the same zeal and devotion to the good of the whole people for the future of my official life, as shown in the past. " Challenged by a coalition of disaffected Republicans and Democrats led by New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley, Grant was privately optimistic about his own chances. "There has been no time from the Baltimore Convention to this when I have felt the least anxiety. The Soreheads & thieves who have deserted the republican party have strengthened it by their departure. " Despite his confidence, Grant found it difficult to ignore attacks against him—attacks that prudence prevented him from answering directly. He found vindication, however, on election day, when he carried all but six states. When Greeley died soon afterward, Grant set aside any bitterness and joined mourners at the New York City funeral. Among the policies that voters tacitly endorsed were Grant's continuing efforts to quell violence in the South, which achieved some success during 1872. He sought as before to support and encourage embattled Southern Republicans, hoping eventually to replace military protection with political legitimacy. [+]On the subject of civil rights, he repeated his desire that blacks receive equal treatment in everyday life, telling a delegation that "a ticket on a railroad or other conveyance should entitle you to all that it does other men. " Grant also maintained a steady course toward Indians, defending his peace policy when many clamored for harsher measures. "I do not believe our Creator ever placed different races of men on this earth with the view of having the stronger exert all his energies in exterminating the weaker. " Protestant and Catholic missionaries and laymen continued to spread the twin gospels of religion and civilization among the various tribes. When a Sioux delegation visited the White House, Grant spoke of the future when "the game will be gone" and of his hope that the Sioux would join other tribes and move to Indian Territory. "We would at first build houses for your chiefs and principal men, and. send you large herds of cattle and sheep to live upon. " Grant's foreign policy in 1872 centered on the Geneva tribunal, established the previous year to arbitrate the thorny dispute with Great Britain over the Alabama Claims. At stake were both the responsibility for past damages and future rules for neutral countries. Grant and Secretary of State Hamilton Fish debated long over the men best suited to present the United States' case. When the tribunal awarded $15. 5 million to the United States, Grant and Fish celebrated their greatest foreign policy achievement. Several minor scandals clouded the horizon in 1872, most notably at the New York City customhouse, where influence peddling by former staff aide George K. Leet came under congressional scrutiny and led to testimony from Grant's personal secretaries concerning White House encounters. While this scandal soon faded from headlines, it foreshadowed more damaging ones to come. In his personal life, Grant watched as his children began to find their own ways in the world. Emulating the fashion of the upper class, all three older children toured Europe, forcing Grant to borrow money from friends. Left with a suddenly quiet household, Grant repeatedly urged old and newfound friends to visit the White House and the summer cottage at Long Branch, New Jersey.
Publication date: 2001-01
Price: $82.56
Review Johann Sebastian Bach: Leben Und Zeit Im Bild / Laaber:
Creator: Walter Frentz
Edition: 2
Publication date: 1997-12-09
Dewey code: 920
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Price: $113.52
Review Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich / Focal Point Publications:An in-depth biography of Nazi Germany's master of propaganda draws on thousands of pages from Goebbels's personal journals to describe the life of Hitler's confidant, his role in Nazi Germany, his hatred for the human race, and his death.
Publication date: 2005-05-28
Dewey code: 973.927092
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Review The Reagan Presidency: Assessing the Man and His Legacy / Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.:In this important new volume, editors Paul Kengor and Peter Schweizer bring together original essays from leading scholars who examine topics as varied as Iran Contra, abortion, the Cold War, governmental management, and economic policy. Through critical analysis, these essays seek a better understanding of Ronald Reagan, his policies, and his lasting legacy.
Publication date: 2006-07-12
Dewey code: 291
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Review The Confessions of Saint Augustine / IndyPublish:
Publication date: 1983-01
Review Sigmund Freud (Key Sociologists) / Ellis Horwood, Ltd.:To those who see Freud solely as a psychologist and a psychotherapist it may be surprising to find him discussed as a major contributor to sociology. Bocock demonstrates Freud's central relevance to sociological discussions about gender, sexuality, the family, religion, ideology and symbolism, political authority, and language. This is the only overview of Freud's work to focus on his sociological relevance.
Publication date: 1983-11
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Review Bapu, a Unique Association: Correspondence with Mahatma Gandhi, Set / Not Avail:
Publication date: 1965-01-01
Review Those Who Love, A biography of Abigail and John Adams:
Publication date: 1989-03
Dewey code: 973.9220924
Price: $19.95
Review The Assassination of John F. Kennedy (A Day That Made History) / B T Batsford Ltd:
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