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by Christopher P. Lehman
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
As a wildly popular local dance show, Soul Train provided a venue for Chicago’s soul singers and political activists and gave African American teenagers their first significant chance to see and identify with their peers on television. The subsequent national series garnered even more popularity,...
Radio Journalism in America
Telling the News in the Golden Age and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
This history of radio news reporting recounts and assesses the contributions of radio toward keeping America informed since the 1920s. It identifies distinct periods and milestones in broadcast journalism and includes a biographical dictionary of important figures who brought news to the airwaves....
Jeffrey Hunter
The Film, Television, Radio and Stage Performances
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Jeffrey Hunter is best remembered today for his roles as half-breed Martin Pawley in John Ford’s classic western The Searchers (1956), as Jesus Christ in Nicholas Ray’s King of Kings (1961) and as Christopher Pike, the first captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise, in the original Star Trek pilot. This...
by Gene Freese
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Character actor Richard Jaeckel worked five decades in Hollywood alongside the industry's biggest names. Noted for tough-guy portrayals, he appeared in such classic westerns and war films as Sands of Iwo Jima (1949), The Gunfighter (1950), 3:10 to Yuma (1957), and The Dirty Dozen (1967). Bringing...
Classified
A History of Secrecy in the United States Government
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
When the framers of the Constitution gathered in the summer of 1787, their deliberations were shrouded in secrecy. The Pennsylvania State House was locked, armed guards were posted and the 55 delegates of the Constitutional Convention were sworn to secrecy by presiding officer George Washington. Ordinary...
Killer Kane
A Marine Long-Range Recon Team Leader in Vietnam, 1967-1968
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
The leader of one of the most successful U. S. Marine long range reconnaissance teams during the Vietnam War, Andrew Finlayson recounts his team's experiences in the year leading up to the Tet Offensive of 1968. Using primary sources, such as Marine Corps unit histories and his own weekly letters...
Budgeting for Sustainability
An Approach for American Policy-Making
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
This book provides critical insights about how U.S. policymaking is likely to be imperiling America’s future, and how only the most efficient and productive organizations and governments will reap globalization’s greatest rewards. Vital areas such as vocational training, manufacturing, infrastructure,...
Prisoners of War at Dartmoor
American and French Soldiers and Sailors in an English Prison During the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
The incarceration of French and American prisoners of war in Dartmoor Prison, at a time when Britain was at war with both its traditional enemy and the young nation of former British colonies, was a dark and unusual episode. Acts of cruelty and degradation were countered by defiance and a spirited...
by Tom H. Hastings
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2003
Terrorism, which by definition targets civilians, is unacceptable, but a violent response to violence usually causes more violence. This book outlines some of the best thinking about nonviolent methods of resisting terrorism in the growing fields of international aid and nonviolent interposition....
Privatization in Practice
Reports on Trends, Cases and Debates in Public Service by Business and Nonprofits
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Cost efficiency was the initial goal of privatization—achieved in many cases but not consistently. Public services provided by the private sector were cheap in the beginning but became increasingly expensive, especially to low-income citizens. The lessons learned from early successes and failures...
by Amber L. Davisson
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Lady Gaga represents both the height of celebrity and a disruption of the norms surrounding the social position. This book charts the way the pop star manages the celebrity persona in her relationships with her fans, the development of her gender identity, her parodying of other celebrities, and her...
The Makeup of RuPaul's Drag Race
Essays on the Queen of Reality Shows
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Start your engines—for the fun, controversy and life lessons of RuPaul’s Drag Race and its spinoff, RuPaul’s DragU. This international collection of original essays critically examines the shows’ representation of drag within the contexts of the reality TV genre and LGBTQ issues. Contributors...
Gay Icons
The (Mostly) Female Entertainers Gay Men Love
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Who are the most significant gay icons and how did they develop? What influence do they have on gay individuals and communities? This book focuses on the superstars, femmes fatales and divas of the gay celebrity pantheon—Mae West, Julie Andrews, Britney Spears, RuPaul, Cher, Divine, Sharon Needles...
Beer 101 North
Craft Breweries and Brewpubs of the Washington and Oregon Coasts
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Oregon and Washington have been leaders in the craft beer boom that began in the 1980s. The number of craft breweries and brewpubs in the U.S. has increased dramatically in recent years—almost 4700 were doing business as of mid–2016. Much of this growth has taken place in the metropolitan areas...