Matthew Kennedy:Joan Blondell: A Life between Takes
- Première édition 2019, ISBN: 9781628461817
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Oxford University Press, 2018. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. New/New. How did Americans imagine the Civil War before it happened? The most anticipated event of the nineteenth cen… Plus…
Oxford University Press, 2018. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. New/New. How did Americans imagine the Civil War before it happened? The most anticipated event of the nineteenth century appeared in novels, prophecies, dreams, diaries, speeches, and newspapers decades before the first shots at Fort Sumter. People forecasted a frontier filibuster, an economic clash between free and slave labor, a race war, a revolution a war for liberation, and Armageddon. Reading their premonitions reveals how several factors, including race, religion, age, gender, region, and class, shaped what people thought about the future and how they imagined it. Some Americans pictured the future as an open, contested era that they progressed toward and molded with their thoughts and actions. Others saw the future as a closed, predetermined world that approached them and sealed their fate. When the war began, these opposing temporalities informed how Americans grasped and waged the conflict. In this creative history, Jason Phillips explains how the expectations of a host of characters -- generals, politicians, radicals, citizens, and slaves -- affected how people understood the unfolding drama and acted when the future became present. He reconsiders the war's origins without looking at sources using hindsight, that is, without considering what caused the cataclysm and whether it was inevitable. As a result, Phillips dispels a popular myth that all Americans thought the Civil War would be short and glorious at the outset, a ninety-day affair full of fun and adventure. Much more than rational power games played by elites, the war was shaped by uncertainties and emotions and darkened horizons that changed over time. Looming Civil War highlights how individuals approached an ominous future with feelings, thoughts, and perspectives different from our sensibilities and unconnected to our view of their world. Civil War Americans had their own prospects to ponder and forge as they discovered who they were and where life would lead them. The Civil War changed more than America's future; it transformed how Americans imagined the future and how Americans have thought about the future ever since., Oxford University Press, 2018, 6, Avid Reader Press, 2019. 1st Edition 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Over the past eighteen years, monumental literature has been published about 9/11, from Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower, which traced the birth and rise of al-Qaeda, to The 9/11 Commission Report, the government's definitive factual retrospective of the attacks. But one perspective has been missing up to this point -- a 360-degree account of the day told through the voices of the people who experienced it. Now, in The Only Plane in the Sky, award-winning journalist and bestselling historian Garrett Graff tells the story of the day as it was lived -- in the words of those who lived it. Drawing on never-before-published transcripts, recently declassified documents, original interviews, and oral histories from nearly five hundred government officials, first responders, witnesses, survivors, friends, and family members, Graff paints the most vivid and human portrait of the September 11 attacks yet. It begins in the predawn hours of airports in the Northeast, where we meet the ticket agents who knowingly usher terrorists onto their flights, and then the flight attendants inside the hijacked planes themselves. In New York City, first responders confront a scene of unimaginable horror at the Twin Towers. From a secret bunker underneath the White House, Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice watch for incoming planes on radar. In the offices of the Pentagon, top officials feel the violent tremor as their headquarters comes under attack. Aboard the small number of unarmed fighter jets in the air, pilots make a pact to fly into a hijacked airliner if necessary to stop it from reaching its target. In the skies above Pennsylvania, civilians aboard United Flight 93 make the ultimate sacrifice in their place. Then as the day moves forward and flights are grounded across the country, Air Force One circles the nation alone, its passengers isolated and afraid. More than simply a collection of eyewitness testimonies, The Only Plane in the Sky is the historic narrative of how ordinary people grappled with extraordinary events in real time: the father and son working on separate floors in the North Tower, caught on different ends of the impact zone; the firefighter who rushes to the scene to search for his wife who works at the World Trade Center; the operator of in-flight telephone calls who keeps her promise to share a passenger's last words with his family; the beloved FDNY chaplain who stays on the scene to perfomer last rites for the dying, losing his own life when the Towers collapse; the newly widowed young father who picks his infant daughter up from daycare for the first time as a single dad; the teachers who hold their fear at bay while evacuating terrified children from schools mere blocks from the World Trade Center; the generals at the Pentagon who break down and weep when they are barred from rushing into the burning building to try to rescue their colleagues; and the students of all ages who struggle to process the morning's events, from those who grimace through school picture day to those who are following the news on college campuses far from home. At once a poerful tribute to the courage of everyday Americans and an essential addition to the literature of 9/11, The Only Plane in the Sky weaves together the unforgettable personal experiences of the men and women who found themselves caught at the center of an unprecedented human drama. The result is a unique, profound, and searing exploration of humanity on a day that changed the course of history, and all of our lives. Avid Reader Press, Hardcover, Later Printing, 2019. THIS IS A BRAND NEW BOOK., Avid Reader Press, 2019, 6, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Larger Table Book, [30cm/12inches], full gilt-embossed red cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 206, indexed. Illustrated with 144 b-w halftone and colour platest. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Amazon blurb notes: "The American Arts and Crafts Movement is one of the most exciting and inspiring chapters in the history of the decorative arts. Rooted in the English movement of the same name, it flourished when transplanted to American soil at the turn of the century. With Gustav Stickley as its moving spirit, the Arts and Crafts Movement eventually included such notable designers, architects, and firms as Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Adelaide Alsop Robineau, Greene and Greene, the Rookwood pottery, Elbert Hubbard's Roycroft Shops, and louis sullivan. Together they forged a new, forward-looking aesthetic that was much more than a particular style: it was a philosophy of life, promoting physical and moral well-being. The American Arts and Crafts Movement was responsible for sweeping changes in attitudes toward the decorative arts, and it fostered the beginnings of twentieth-century design. This book is both a comprehensive and authoritative treatment of the movement and a sumptuous photographic collection of Arts and Crafts masterpieces. Pictured here in more than 130 color photographs are stained glass, furniture, silver and metalwork, ceramics, textiles, lighting, and more.", Harry N. Abrams, 1988, 5, Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd. Utg. 2000. Mass Market Paperback. 157 p. This book is brand new. Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: Immortalised by Audrey Hepburn's sparkling performance in the 1961 film of the same name, Breakfast at Tiffany's is Truman Capote's timeless portrait of tragicomic cultural icon Holly Golightly, published in Penguin Modern Classics. It's New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany's. And nice girls don't, except, of course, for Holly Golightly: glittering socialite traveller, generally upwards, sometimes sideways and once in a while - down. Pursued by to Salvatore 'Sally' Tomato, the Mafia sugar-daddy doing life in Sing Sing and 'Rusty' Trawler, the blue-chinned, cuff-shooting millionaire man about women about town, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker, a perplexer, a traveller, a tease. She is irrepressibly 'top banana in the shock deparment', and one of the shining flowers of American fiction. This edition also contains three stories: 'House of Flowers', 'A Diamond Guitar' and 'A Christmas Memory'. Truman Capote (1924-84) was born in New Orleans. He left school when he was fifteen and subsequently worked for The New Yorker, which provided his first - and last - regular job. He wrote both fiction and non-fiction - short stories, novels and novellas, travel writing, profiles, reportage, memoirs, plays and films; his other works include In Cold Blood (1965), Music for Chameleons (1980) and Answered Prayers (1986), all of which are published in Penguin Modern Classics. If you enjoyed Breakfast at Tiffany's, you might like Capote's In Cold Blood, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'One of the twentieth century's most gorgeously romantic fictions'Daily Telegraph'The most perfect writer of my generation .. I would not have changed two words of Breakfast at Tiffany's'Norman Mailer. We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery., 6, Toronto: Canec Publishing and Supply House BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Moderately Creased; Moderately Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. A biography by Munroe Scott. SUB-TITLE: of Dr. Bob McClure; A Biography. BOOK DESIGN BY: Bryan Mills & Associates. CONTENTS: Foreword; Prologue 1 First Decade 2 American Interlude 3 Return to China 4 Life with Father 5 The Higher Education of Bob McClure 6 The Intern 7 Loa Ming-yuan 8 Weihwei 9 Hwaiking and the Path to Chinghua 10 News from Home 11 Religious Background 12 The Tent 13 Loa Ming-yuan and the Warlord of Hwaiking 14 Moment of Truth 15 Wedding Bells 16 Exodus 17 Taiwan the Beautiful 18 Assault on Edinburgh 19 Return to Hwaiking 20 Loving Lotus and Others 21 The Hwaiking Rural Medical System 22 Quicksand 23 Times of a Red Cross Man 24 Number One Hankow Lady 25 On Tour 26 The Burma Road With a Bishop 27 Trucking Along 28 Oh Canada! 29 The China Convoy 30 Precious Mountain 31 Raid on Chengchow 32 General Ming-yuan McCurdle 33 The Return of Hankey 34 The City of Jade and (a=r+p) 35 Plague Valley 36 General McCurdle and the Relief of Honan 37 Requiem for Hwaiking 38 The Last China Year of Bob McClure; McClure-China Chronological Table. SYNOPSIS: There have been few periods of human history as significant or as dramatic as was the first half of the twentieth century in China. From the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 through to the final Communist victories in 1949, China was in the midst of social upheaval, revolution, and war. That half-century of change parallels the early career of Bob McClure, The United Church of Canada's extraordinary missionary surgeon who was born just after his parents escaped from the Boxer Rebellion and who was raised in China, educated in Canada and abroad, and returned to spend the first twenty-five years of his medical life in China. McClure: The China Years not only follows the adventures of a unique man but traces them against the fascinating and often awesome background of a changing China. During McClure's childhood the Manchu emperors are still in power. During his teens the First Republic is struggling for survival. It is the Age of the Warlords as McClure begins his service as a doctor. While he is pioneering with X-ray, radium, family planning, and rural medicine, China moves into the Sino-Japanese War and McClure becomes Field Director for The International Red Cross in North and Central China before going to the Burma Road to take command of a Quaker ambulance unit staffed by pacifists. While McClure is following the dictates of his conscience Chinese Nationalist soldiers attempt to execute him, the Japanese put a price on his had, the Chinese Communists black-list him, and Canada's Prime Minister, Mackenzie King, threatens to throw him in gaol. Bob McClure is a unique blend of missionary, surgeon, mechanic, and adventurer. In reflecting the man, McClure offers an unusual blend of drama, humour, and adventure combined with an intimate view of history-in-the-making. Munroe Scott was born in Owen Sound, Ontario, in 1927. He was raised in Ontario and educated at Queen's University (B.A.) and at Cornell University (M.A.). He has been a freelance writer and director in film and television for many years. He was writer/director for three outstanding CBC-TV series--One Canadian (The Diefenbaker memoirs), First Person Singular (The Pearson memoirs), and The Tenth Decade (The Diefenbaker-Pearson years). He has written many plays for TV, his most ambitious being Reddick, a three-hour drama in two parts. He has been Writer in Residence at the University of Guelph, has won the ACTRA Award for the Best Writer in the Dramatic Mode in Radio and has had a full length play, Wu-feng, produced by Toronto's prestigious St. Lawrence Centre. As a freelance filmwriter Mr. Scott has written many filmscripts for Berkeley Studio, the film production unit of The United church of Canada. Research for those documentary films has taken him to mission fields in the Caribbean, Africa, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Okinawa, Hong Kong, Thailand and Indonesia. Many readers will remember his first book, African Manhunt, which was written as a result of a film assignment in Angola. Now, having recently completed the TV biographies of two fascinating Canadian Prime Ministers, Mr. Scott brings his talents to bear upon a biography of a third great Canadian, Dr. Bob McClure.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Canec Publishing and Supply House, 2.75, Paperback / softback. New. This is the first major biography of the effervescent, scene-stealing actress (1906-1979) who conquered motion pictures, vaudeville, Broadway, summer stock, television, and radio. Meticulously researched, Joan Blondell: A Life Between Takes traces the changing face of Twentieth Century American entertainment through the career of this extraordinary actress., 6<
