Ivan: 285 books
No Sense Of Decency
The Army-McCarthy Hearings: A Demagogue Falls and Television Takes Charge of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
"Have you no sense of decency, sir?" asked attorney Robert Welch in a climactic moment in the 1954 Senate hearings that pitted Joseph R. McCarthy against the United States Army, President Dwight Eisenhower, and the rest of the political establishment. What made the confrontation unprecedented...
When the Red Sox Ruled
Baseball's First Dynasty, 1912-1918
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
In the years before the Curse of the Bambino descended on New England, the Boston Red Sox rode major league baseball like a colossus, capturing four World Series titles in seven seasons. Blessed with legendary players like Babe Ruth, Tris Speaker, Harry Hooper, and Smokey Joe Wood, and a brand new,...
From Munich to Pearl Harbor
Roosevelt's America and the Origins of the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2002
A master historian's provocative new interpretation of FDR's role in the coming of World War II. Brilliant. —Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. American Ways Series.
Theatre for Children
A Guide to Writing, Adapting, Directing, and Acting
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1999
One of the world's leading children's dramatists provides a practical handbook of the skills involved in entertaining and involving audiences of children. A marvelous contribution to the world of Youth Theater...a must. —Robyn Flatt, Dallas Children's Theater. He has often been called the National Playwright for Children and he deserves it. —Cameron Mackintosh
by Aldous Huxley
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1992
When Aldous Huxley's Brave New World first appeared in 1932, it presented in terms of purest fantasy a society bent on self-destruction. Few of its outraged critics anticipated the onset of another world war with its Holocaust and atomic ruin. In 1948, seeing that the probable shape of his anti-utopia...
Lost Earth
A Life of Cezanne
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2003
Only now can we see Paul Cézanne as the invisible genius at the very inception of modern art. Recent exhibitions of his early works reveal an artist very different from the serene landscapist we thought we knew. What was it that made these disturbingly dark and troubled paintings, with their violence...
Leaving You
The Cultural Meaning of Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2003
Lieberman looks at the cultural meaning of suicide and how it has gone from being seen as subversive to self-destructive.
by Raymond-Raoul Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Raymond-Raoul Lambert's Diary has been among the most important untranslated records of the experience of French Jews in the Holocaust. Lambert, a leader of the Union of French Jews (UGIF), was, in the words of the historian Michael Marrus, "arguably the most important Jewish official in contact...
Antigone
In a New Translation by Nicholas Rudall
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
One of the greatest, most moving of all tragedies, Antigone continues to have meaning for us because of its depiction of the struggle between individual conscience and state policy, and its delicate probing of the nature of human suffering. Mr. Rudall's splendid translation brings a new power and speakability to Sophocles' prose.
The Betrayal of Liberalism
How the Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped Foster the Illiberal Politics of Coercion and Control
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 1999
Just fifty years ago the literary critic Lionel Trilling spoke of liberalism as “not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition” in American society. At the turn of the twentieth century this is clearly no longer the case, when conservative ideas have succeeded in many areas of...
by Heather MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
False charges of racial profiling threaten to obliterate the crime-fighting gains of the last decade, especially in America's inner cities. This is the message of Heather Mac Donald's new book, in which she brings her special brand of tough and honest journalism to the current war against the police....
The Torment of Secrecy
The Background and Consequences of American Secruity Policies
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1996
Edward Shils's The Torment of Secrecy is one of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of anticommunism and McCarthyism in the United States. Mr. Shils's "torment" is not only that of the individual caught up in loyalty and security procedures; it is also the torment of...
Mao
A Reinterpretation
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2003
In recent years historians and political observers have vilified Mao Tse-tung and placed him in a class with tyrants like Hitler and Stalin. But, as Lee Feigon points out in his startling revision of Mao, the Chinese leader has been tainted by the actions and policies of the same Soviet-style Communist...
Victorian Minds
A Study of Intellectuals in Crisis and Ideologies in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1995
Where "Victorianism" once conjured up an image of smugness, hypocrisy, and mindlessness, it now suggests quite the reverse: an age of high intellectual, moral, and spiritual tension, in which the typical problems of modernity were posed in their most acute forms. Gertrude Himmelfarb's distinguished...