Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, this book recounts the longtime efforts of Dr. Riegner (1911-2001) on behalf of Jewish-Christian relations and international
Great scientific and technological breakthroughs in the twentieth century enabled American farmers to produce bountiful harvests that ensured an abundant and relatively cheap food supply. But this agr
In eighteen essays, Ms. Allen explores the lives and work of some of the last century's most brilliant and eccentric literary talents. Ms. Allen's appraisals, which combine extensive biographical info
Written and first performed in 1599, The Shoemaker's Holiday was the most popular non-Shakespearean comedy of its day - a hearty brew of character and overflowing good humor, occasionally ribald, abou
This history of American small towns looks at their founding and development from colonial times to the present, discussing political, economic, social, and cultural life in small towns. Patterns in d
Trenchant prose writings on poetry, poets, and cultural matters by one of the most important essayists of his generation. Edited with an Introduction by Robert Phillips. "A lively and slashing cr
In surveys of the plays that will help readers and viewers follow the action with ease and understanding, Robert Fallon opens a window to Shakespeare’s time while illuminating the timelessness of his
Matthews (American history, U. of Western Ontario) narrates a phase of women's struggle that shared more conceptions, goals, and methods with the struggles of the 1960s and 1970s than with the more re
Edited by Arthur and Lila Weinberg. A remarkable collection of the great attorney’s writings which reveal why he was such a force in the court of law and in the court of public opinion. “Fascinating..
The public guardian of Cook County, Illinois, charges that the child welfare bureaucracy, designed to help children, is instead helping to destroy them. “Murphy explains the facts and failures of the
This volume surveys the range of Sontag's work. For each piece, Rollyson (English, Baruch College, NY) provides a synopsis, a short section on "Sontag reading Sontag," and a critical analysis of the
This novel of a young carpenter who leaves his rural English village to seek work in London in the late 19th century is an impressive description of unemployment and poverty. Radical Fiction Series.
Reprint of the Hill & Wang edition of 1991 and beneficiary of very fulsome praise in PW (6/7/91), LJ (6/15/91), Booklist (9/1/91). Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Luigi Pirandello is widely regarded as one of the foremost innovators in twentieth-century theatre. Six Characters in Search of an Author caused a riot when it was first produced in Rome in 1921 and w
