Biography: general Books

Book SynopsisPhotographs shaped the view of the world in turn-of-the-century Central Europe, bringing images of everything from natural and cultural history to masterpieces of Greek sculpture into homes and offices. Sigmund Freud''s libraryno exception to this trendwas filled with individual photographs and images in books. According to Mary Bergstein, these photographs also profoundly shaped Freud''s thinking in ways that were no less important because they may have been involuntary and unconscious.In Mirrors of Memory, lavishly illustrated with reproductions of the photos from Freud''s voluminous collection, she argues that studying the man and his photographs uncovers a key to the origins of psychoanalysis. In Freud''s era, photographs were viewed as transparent windows revealing objective truth but at the same time were highly subjective, resembling a kind of dream-memory. Thus, a photo of a ruined temple both depicted the particular place and conveyed a sense of loss, oblivion, of tiTrade ReviewAn erudite and original book... [on] the far-reaching effects of European fin de siècle visual culture on Freud's mind. Mirrors of Memory illuminates the heretofore unexamined ways in which the medium of photography, widely taken to be a transparent, objective way of documenting and gaining access to a previously existing reality, was relied on by many disciplines during Freud's lifetime.... This extraordinary book... is a paragon in the annals of interdisciplinary scholarship.... In teaching us to look back and to realize that we had missed an entire field of force in which the interpretations we thought we understood took place, it opens onto new vistas and suggests new paradigms for exciting twenty-first-century interdisciplinary work. -- Ellen Handler Spitz * Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association *Bergstein's book significantly furthers our understanding of Freud’s Vienna and her rich data and analysis open many avenues for further research, particularly on the question of how the modern innovation of photography affected the development of art history and psychoanalysis in the late nineteenth century.... Bergstein provides a rich archive of information and analyses that future scholars will no doubt find indispensable. -- Maya Balakirsky Katz * Visual Resources *Bringing analytic understanding to bear on cultural production, Bergstein explores the impact of photography on the human dynamics of perception, memory, and desire. At the same time, Mirrors of Memory historicizes psychoanalysis, shedding light on the circumstances that positioned Freud to formulate a new understanding of mental life.... Bergstein highlights the rigor with which Freud approached his investigations of mental life. She also enriches our understanding with her careful demonstration of the ways in which 'photographic presence and surrogacy were deeply embedded in Freud's visual imagination.’. -- Anne Golomb Hoffmann * DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry Annual *

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Book SynopsisIn Priest, Politician, Collaborator, James Mace Ward offers the first comprehensive and scholarly English-language biography of the Catholic priest and Slovak nationalist Jozef Tiso (18871947). The first president of an independent Slovakia, established as a satellite of Nazi Germany, Tiso was ultimately hanged for treason and (in effect) crimes against humanity by a postwar reunified Czechoslovakia. Drawing on extensive archival research, Ward portrays Tiso as a devoutly religious man who came to privilege the maintenance of a Slovak state over all other concerns, helping thus to condemn Slovak Jewry to destruction. Ward, however, refuses to reduce Tiso to a mere opportunist, portraying him also as a man of principle and a victim of international circumstances. This potent mix, combined with an almost epic ability to deny the consequences of his own actions, ultimately led to Tiso's undoing.Tiso began his career as a fervent priest seeking to defend the church and pursue socTrade ReviewAs the first rigorous biography of Slovakia's priest-president Jozef Tiso available in English, this book addresses a major gap in Czech and Slovak studies and represents a considerable contribution to the study of political Catholicism, World War II collaborationist regimes, the Holocaust, and the politics of nationalism in twentieth-century Europe. James Mace Ward casts Tiso as a cunning, dynamic player in a modern, Central European story. Ward draws on extensive research in Slovak, Czech, Hungarian, and Austrian archives to provide a chronological account of the priest's early training and influences, first forays into interwar politics, gradual radicalization, and ascent to the presidency of the Nazi-allied First Slovak Republic (1939-1945). * Journal of Cold War Studies *Fluidly written and highly engagingWard's terse analysis of Tiso’s world-view integrates the volatile context that facilitated his rise to ignominy.... Ward’s balanced and insightful assessment of Tiso and his world comes highly recommended for both scholars and undergraduates. * The Slavonic and East European Review *In Hitler's disposition of Czechoslovakia, Slovakia became an independent state, subordinate to the Reich but formally sovereign. As James Mace Ward shows in his finely researched biography, the Slovak leader Monsignor Jozef Tiso understood this new beginning as a chance for Christian, national, and social revolution. The end of Czechoslovakia deprived the Jews of their previous civil status; the new Slovak state denied them equal citizenship and deprived them of property rights. * The New York Review of Books *It is a rare political figure who is reprehensible both for his opportunism and his dogmatism, but then it is a rare president who is also an ordained priest. Such was Jozef Tiso, leader of Slovakia during its spell as a German Schutzstaat (protected state) from 1939 to 1945. As James Mace Ward argues in his definitive account, Priest, Politician, Collaborator, Tiso was guided throughout his life by a set of deeply held values, but was also a talented Machiavellian able to reconcile those values to the exigencies of power.... Ward masterfully reconstructs the factional differences and power struggles over which Tiso presided, showing that he was never truly the moderate he may liked to think he was or wanted to appear to be. * The Times Literary Supplement *James Mace Ward's excellent book offers the first political biography in English to follow Kamenec in seeking to understand, rather than simply to praise or condemn, the controversial Slovak dictator. Only by taking account of the successive dramatic shifts that occurred in the political landscape of Central Europe over the course of the twentieth century, Ward argues, can one begin to make sense of the apprent contradictions in Tiso's life. * English Historical Review *James Ward has written a thoroughly researched and most thought-provoking book on a fascinating figure. Jozef Tiso, 1887-1947, poses a double enigma—as an ostensibly Magyarized Slovak who in late 1918 suddenly threw himself into the Slovak national cause he had previously ignored and as a Catholic priest reputedly on the moderate wing of Slovak politics who in World War II led a satellite Slovak state into collaboration with Hitler and the Holocaust. As Ward demonstrates, his life is interesting not only for its personal drama and divisive role in modern Slovakia but also for questions of political Catholicism, nationalism, and genocide in a turbulent epoch..Ward's deliberate chronological approach suggeeds in its goal of showing nuances in Tiso's stances. The masterly, consistently incisive chapter introductions and conclusions are all the more welcome. The overall conclusion effectively ccaps previous insights on Tiso's personality contradictions and his role as political priest, as reflected in his fondness for dualisms, themselves inherent in 'political Catholicism as an exercise in pursuing the eternal within the confines of the temporal' (288). * The Journal of Modern History *This is a brilliant, mature work from a young scholar. Its maturity derives from the balance that it brings to a charged subject..., from the intelligence of the argument that Ward melds with this disconcerting biography, and from the unpretentious clarity with which it is written.... Ward depicts Tiso as defined by dualities—conviction and convenience, faith and politics, Christianity and Nazism—and embodying the complexity, hopes, and tragedies of the Czechs and the Slovaks during the 1930s. * Foreign Affairs *This objective biography will remain a classic in English as Tiso will no longer be presented in simple black and white terms as in the past. It is an excellent source for students of nationalism, political Catholicism, the history of Czechoslovakia and Slovakia, and post-Communism. * Slovakia *Ward provides as accurate an account of Tiso's life and legacy as possible, all the while acknowledging that he remains a highly contested, controversial, and complex character in Slovak history. This book will be of interest to a wide range of readers... and provides a regional approach to Holocaust studies. Overall, Ward resists portraying Tiso as a mere opportunist, providing instead a thoughtful interpretation of how experiences of Catholicism, nationalism, and state building can combine to produce genocide. * Choice *Ward's biography is an essential resource for everybody interested not only in the history of twentieth-century Slovakia, but also Catholic-social politics, Central European nationalism, the Holocaust, and even memory studies. A compelling read, it offers new avenues for understanding the life and myths surrounding the life of a controversial Central European statesman. Tiso remained a priest for his entire life and in 1918 became a politician who helped set the direction of mainstream Slovak national politics for three decades. However, the pursuit of his ideals led Tiso to collaboration and ultimately the gallows. Ward masterfully documents the decisions and activities that elevated him to the presidential office, but later brought about his downfall. Although a priest, Tiso was 'no saint.'. * Holocaust and Genocide Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. "For God and Our Homeland," 1887–19182 Turning National and Political, 1918–19393. “For God and Nation,” 1919–254. The Failure of “Activism,” 1925–335. The Lure of the World, 1933–386. Standing Up for the Truth, 1938–397. Sacred Convictions, 1939–448 Losing Battles, 1944–2011Conclusion. The Crown of ThornsA Note on SourcesAbbreviationsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn this updated edition of his classic work, Lenn E. Goodman provides a concise introduction to the life and thought of Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina, known as Avicenna, who was born in the year 980 C.E. near Bokhara in what is now...Trade ReviewAnyone who is at all familiar with the writings of the medieval Islamic philosopher Avicenna recognizes him as a philosophically penetrating and original thinker who deserves a place alongside the more familiar major figures in the history of Western philosophy.... This book presents the reader with an overview of the principal tenets of Avicenna's philosophy that both sets them in their own historical context within medieval Islam and brings them to bear on perennial themes in the history of western philosophy. * Journal of the History of Philosophy *

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Book Synopsis"If psychoanalysis is the return of repressed antiquity, distorted to be sure by modern desire, yet still bearing the telltale traces of the ancient archive, then would not our growing distance from the archive of antiquity also imply that we are in...Trade ReviewA most subtle, ingenious and sophisticated intervention into debates concerning Freud's legacy. -- Vanda Zajko * Journal of Hellenic Studies *It is surely no sign of neurosis to find the questions discussed in this book as compelling as they are timely. In an entirely non-clinical sense, everyone engaged in cultural history, cultural studies, and the history of ideas will be anxious to read it. -- Paul Bishop * Times Literary Supplement *This wonderfully reasoned, scholarly book eloquently addresses the many meanings to Freud of the ancient statuettes that he collected and cherished. Armstrong sees these statues as symbols of themes that fascinated Freud—for example, Greek and Egyptian culture as a way of understanding the underpinnings of world civilization. The author makes a case for Freud's narrative reconstructions of the past of individuals as related to his own Jewishness, a thorny point for some scholars, Peter Gay among them. Armstrong backs up ideas with close readings of Freud's voluminous correspondence, his formal writings, and the writing of his patients, H.D. among them; all comment on the statuary and Freud's use of them in analytic conversation. Contemplating Freud's education and his worldview in fresh ways, this book puts Freud in historical context. His notions about mythological figures such as Oedipus and his interpretations of Moses, or Leonardo, shed new light on his creation of psychoanalysis. A book for all who are interested in psychoanalysis. Summing Up: Essential. * Choice *Altogether, a serious, profoundly scholarly, and provocative addition to the growing volume of interdisciplinary literature on psychoanalysis and its evolution. * The Institute for the History of Psychiatry Annual *Intellectual historians will be grateful for this path-breaking humanistic exploration of a subject that has been unduly neglected until now. * American Journal of Psychiatry *This is an important contribution to Freud/psychoanalysis studies and the history of 19th and 20th c. German(-Jewish) Bildungsbürgertum. In many ways it is a superb example of a cross-disciplinary study, for it drives home that while we social scientists may well have gained much from specialization, those scholars able to breach modern disciplinary boundaries can reveal a great deal about our collective historical archive as well as our continuing interest in (the history of) psychoanalysis. -- David D. Lee * Journal for the History of the Behavioral Sciences *

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Book Synopsis"Killed Strangely is an engaging read that will entrance and inform readers who are at once murder mystery and history buffs."—Common-PlaceTrade ReviewKilled Strangely is an engaging read that will entrance and inform readers who are at once murder mystery and history buffs. -- Cornelia Hughes Dayton * Common-Place *A satisfying account of the mysterious death in 1673 of a 73-year-old Rhode Island matriarch (and ancestor of Ezra Cornell, founder of Cornell University), for which her son, Thomas Cornell was hanged. Rebecca Cornell was at home with her family—including 46-year-old Thomas, still dependent on mom's largesse—but remained in her chamber at suppertime; while the others dined, she died and her body caught fire from the hearth. But the author.... doesn't stop there, and subsequent chapters about Rhode Island society of the time will be of most interest to scholars and local historians. * Publishers Weekly *For sleuthing historian Elaine Forman Crane in Killed Strangely, the jury's 'willingness and ability to reconcile medieval superstitions with modern evidentiary standards makes the Cornell case a striking example of the friction between traditional Christian folklore and evolving common law.' And Crane's examination of the case in the context of its place and time—1673, 19 years before the Salem witch crisis—is a fine example of the 'microhistory' genre. She found it an opportunity to study 'the prescriptive values of Puritan society' and 'the ways in which people... actually lived out their lives. * Boston Globe *This book is brief and compulsively readable, the kind of work tailor-made to grip and hold the imaginations of undergraduates in early American survey courses everywhere.... Crane's use of material culture is also marvelously adept.... Her book succeeds nicely as a mystery story and admirably as a teaching tool. -- Nicole Eustace * Reviews in American History *This excellent book by a Fordham University history professor presents a true 1673 murder mystery.... This well-written, integrated, historical perspective on this mystery fascinated me. Think of it this way—when was the last time you heard about the testimony of a crime victim's ghost being admissible in a court of law? * Virginia Quarterly Review *Well written, thorough, scholarly, and entertaining. Summing Up: Recommended. * Choice *

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Book Synopsis"No one knows more about Franz Liszt than Alan Walker."—Malcolm Bowie, Times Literary Supplement In a series of lively essays that tell us much not only about the phenomenon that was Franz Liszt but also about the musical and cultural life of...Trade ReviewThe collection of essays is a sort of appendix to Alan Walker's three-volume biography of Liszt. That was not a study of the music, though it commented selectively on the music as part of the composer's life, but it was—is—one of the most readable and engrossing biographies of any subject ever written. -- Adrian Jack * BBC Music Magazine *Walker is unashamedly a Lisztian, of course, but his advocacy is never fanatical. Rather, it is mantled in terse, accomplished prose, supported by faultless research, and buttressed by copious musical examples and musicological argument. In this indispensable book, Walker has strengthened his case for a reevaluation of the composer's accomplishments with care, detail, and—the word is not too strong—virtuosity. -- Conor Farrington * Times Literary Supplement *No one knows more about Franz Liszt than Alan Walker. -- Malcolm Bowie * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsPrologue1. Beethoven's Weihekuss Revisited2. Liszt and the Beethoven Symphonies3. Liszt and the Schubert Song Transcriptions4. Schumann, Liszt, and the C Major Fantasie, op. 17: A Study in Declining Relationships5. Liszt and His Pupils: Three Character SketchesCarl Tausig: A Polish Wunderkind — Hans von Bülow: Heir and Successor — Walter Bache: An English Disciple of Liszt6. Liszt’s Sonata in B Minor7. Liszt and the Lied8. Liszt as Editor9. Liszt’s Technical Studies: Some Thoughts and Afterthoughts10. Liszt the Writer: On Music and MusiciansEpilogue: An Open Letter to Franz LisztSourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisDrawing on little-known, unpublished material and forcing Catherine's husband from center stage, this book revolutionizes our perception of both an unjustly maligned woman and the Dickens family dynamic.Trade ReviewThe Other Dickens breaks new ground in Victorian Studies by making Catherine, Charles Dickens's wife, the center of a work that reconfigures the Dickens story so that it is as much hers as his—indeed more hers than his.... Nayder aims to both correct injustices done to Catherine by Charles and many of his biographers and, more crucially, to revivify Catherine’s voice, to write her life from her own perspective.... This carefully documented, engagingly written biography manages to do justice to both. * Women’s Review of Books *Catherine's story, meticulously excavated here, its details saved for posterity only because of her connection to a famous man, adds valuable information to cultural and social histories of nineteenth-century women. Through Nayder's diligence in finding and analyzing the surviving materials, Catherine emerges as a quiet but engaged Victorian woman of considerable dignity and the confidence of the genteel social standing that was her birthright as a member of the Hogarth family, a social place far above her husband's when they first were married. Lillian Nayder has surely brought her to light as fully as possible in this fine and engaging study. * Dickens Quarterly *History has not been kind to Catherine Dickens, which is why Lillian Nayder's new biography is such an essential piece of scholarship. Tracing Catherine’s life through a wealth of letters, journals, and legal documents, Nayder takes issue with generations of biographers who have unthinkingly followed Dickens’s lead in dismissing Catherine as a slow, clumsy, indolent figure.... The Catherine who emerges from Nayder’s biography is, by contrast, capable, vibrant, and funny. She is a companion and an equal, a valued critic of her husband’s work and an author (of a cookery book) in her own right. * Australian Book Review *Lillian Nayder's sympathetic and resourceful biography pieces together Catherine's story from the records that remain, and seeks to 'wrest away from her husband the power to shape Catherine's biography.'... It is well researched, drawing on the few extant letters to her sisters and friends, the letters of others (especially Dickens), bank records and legal papers, and it tells Catherine's story neatly. Nayder is alert to the nuances of the verbal record, compelling in her reading between the lines of the fragmented voices that remain.... In May 1858, she wrote to Angela Burdett Coutts, 'One day though not now I may be able to let you know you how hardly I have been used.' Some 150 years later, Catherine's unvoiced complaint now has its fullest expression. * Times Literary Supplement *Nayder redresses the notion that Catherine was a weak-willed wife and a neglectful mother, offering readers a complete, individualized portrait of her that spans the course of her life, although much of the book focuses on her married years. Making frequent use of the letters and other papers of both spouses (though not those from Catherine to Charles as he did not preserve them), Nayder illustrates how past biographers and critics have frequently misinterpreted the marriage and sustained a pro-Charles bias. The Catherine that emerges is a stronger, more organized, and more active mother than the figure portrayed before. It is exciting to speculate how this work will shape future considerations of Charles Dickens and his marriage. * Library Journal *Nayder's vigorous biography aims to rubbish long-standing views of Catherine, dislodging her husband from center stage, resisting 'his mesmerising powers, his tendency to seize control of narratives, and his uncanny ability to make biographers speak for him from beyond the grave.'... Her book makes a powerful case that 'we may be closer to the Victorians than we think.' Modern life, Nayder suggests, retains a persistent imperative for women to see themselves as subordinate, encouraging them to submit to narratives as pernicious as those in her book. Catherine may have remained silent about her husband's conduct, but this book restores her voice as a salutary lesson to be heeded by current generations.... The 'other Dickens' of the title turns out to be not just the misunderstood and discarded heroine, but the grubby private face of this most talented of fabricators and storytellers. * Times Higher Education Supplement *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Constructing Catherine Dickens1. "The Mind of Woman Occasionally Asserts Its Powers": Catherine Hogarth among Enlightened Patriarchs, 1815–18352. Becoming Galatea: Courtship and Marriage, 1835–1837Interlude I. “The Girls Hogarth”: Catherine and Mary3. “Their Voices, Mr. Dickens's Imperative”: Mesmerized, 1837–18424. “Their Voices, Mrs. Dickens’s Expostulatory”: Disentranced, 1843–18475. “Richer in That Respect”: Overbearings, 1848–1852Interlude II. “Catherine Georgina”; or, What’s in a Name?6. The Meaning of “Our”: Sleights of Hand, 1853–18587. “As If She Were Sole and Unmarried”: Separation, 1858–1870Interlude III. “Forget Me Not”: Catherine and Helen8. Last Wills and Last Words: Widowhood, 1870–1879Afterword: “Suttee Business”Primary SourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book draws on interviews with senior White House and Cabinet officials conducted under the auspices of the Bush Oral History Project to provide a multidimensional portrait of the first President Bush and his administration.Trade Review"41 successfully uses oral histories to provide insight into the George H. W. Bush administration, its composition, and its decision-making processes. The only one-term president since 1981, Bush faced a pivotal moment in history: a transition to governing in a post–Cold War era; and growing intra-party splits within a Republican Party upset with a budget compromise that raised taxes yet contributed to an historic surplus within a decade. 41 provides a valuable perspective into the intense polarization in Washington today." -- Janet M. Martin, Bowdoin College, author of The Presidency and Women: Promise, Performance, and Illusion"The presidency of George H. W. Bush deserves more attention. The integration of new oral histories into the analysis throughout this book demonstrates that these oral histories will be a highly useful source for further scholarship." -- Thomas Langston, Tulane University, author of The Cold War Presidency: A Documentary HistoryTable of ContentsForeword Philip Zelikow Preface Michael Nelson and Barbara Perry George H. W. Bush's Road to the White House Introduction: History and George Bush Russell L. Riley Part I AMERICAN CONSERVATISM 1. George Bush: Texan, Conservative Michael Nelson 2. George Bush and American Conservatism Hugh Heclo Part II WAR AND STATECRAFT 3. Organizing Security: How the Bush Presidency Made Decisions on War and Peace Bartholomew Sparrow 4. When George Bush Believed the Cold War Ended and Why That Mattered Jeffrey A. Engel 5. Character and Consequence: The John Tower Confirmation Battle Robert A. Strong Part III DOMESTIC POLITICS AND POLICY 6. The Offered Hand and the Veto Fist: George Bush, Congress, and Domestic Policy Making Barbara Sinclair 7. From Oral History to Oral Argument: George Bush's Supreme Court Appointments Barbara A. Perry and Henry J. Abraham Conclusion: Navigating the Crosswinds of Modern Politics and Policy Sidney M. Milkis Appendix 1: Interviewees for the George H. W. Bush Oral History Project Appendix 2: Interviewers for the George H. W. Bush Oral History Project

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Autobiographics is a perceptive, comprehensive reflection on the theory of autobiography and on the innovative practices of women's personal writing in the United States."—Raylene Ramsay, University of Auckland, French Review, April 1996"Gilmore gracefully manages to incorporate the insights of poststructuralist literary theory to reveal the shaping influences of language and discourse without ever losing sight of the importance of stories and our ability to retell them."—Rebecca Dakin Quinn, City University of New York, Graduate School and University Center, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature

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Book SynopsisBodenheimer defines the personal paradoxes that helped to shape Eliot's fictional characters and narrative style.Trade ReviewA richly compelling portrait of nineteenth-century British writer George Eliot.... Rather than arranging her material in standard chronological fashion, Bodenheimer has elected to present her analysis via a series of critical issues that affected both the social and literary styles of George Eliot throughout the course of her life. A fascinating hybrid of literary criticism and biography. * Booklist *Alert to the carefully deployed, multiple masks that Mary Ann Evans chose to wear, but also capable of writing with genuine feeling of Eliot's actual and fictional labors of choice, Bodenheimer has managed to write that seemingly impossible thing, postmodern biography that a humanist can admire. * Boston Book Review *An attentive reader of this book will never read George Eliot in the same way again. * George Eliot—George Henry Lewes Studies *Here we have the first full-scale study of George Eliot's correspondence.... Both the fictive nature of the letters and the autobiographical reality of fiction are well discussed in this very welcome book. * Choice *The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans is a critical book in which Eliot's letters and novels become one unit.... Bodenheimer talks about very unusual topics. * Lingua Franca *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOut of the Shadow... remains the most sensitive and insightful first-person account of a particular immigrant experience. * New York History *

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Book SynopsisThis absorbing and award-winning biography tells the story of the tragedies and triumphs of Clara Wieck Schumann (1819–1896)—at once artist, composer, editor, teacher, wife, and mother of eight children.Trade ReviewClara Schumann was one of the remarkable women of the nineteenth century, and she deserves this well-documented biography.... This is the best modern study of Clara Schumann available in English. * New York Times Book Review *Foremost among the strengths of this book is the delineation of Schumann's character. While pointing out the overwhelming challenges and devastating losses that dogged her entire life, Reich makes no attempt to paint her as a saint or hero.... The first edition of this book has gained acceptance as a standard resource on Clara Schumann. This revised edition preserves the strengths of the first edition while adding additional information and a fine-tuning of the presentation, assuring that Reich's work will remain central to the subject for the foreseeable future. * Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association *In addition to telling us the story of Clara Schumann's life, Nancy B. Reich... includes chapters on Clara Schumann's children, her work as editor, performing artist, and teacher, and her relationships with Brahms, Joachim, Liszt, and other major figures of the era.... There is also a list and analysis of Clara Schumann's compositions.... Reich has written an eminently readable, well-researched, and thoughtful book that gives historical and psychological insights into one of the major artists of the nineteenth century. * Classical Music Guide Forums *Reich's first edition contributed to the increase in interest in Clara Schumann and in the performances and recordings of her music. The publication of this revised edition will continue to stir interest with the availability of new documents, letters and the extensive list of newly published music; further, this new edition offers a much more detailed look at Clara Schumann's life and music. * Journal of the International Association of Women in Music *The marvelous originality of Reich's book lies in the way she places the marriage and the celebrated friendship with Brahms in perspective among other critical factors in Clara's life. Reich's painstaking, scholarly detail and feminist insight recover not merely the events in the life, dramatic as they were, but its major themes, movements and connecting threads. * Women's Review of Books *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface to the Revised Edition Preface to the First Edition Acknowledgments to the Revised Edition Acknowledgments to the First EditionPart I. The Life of Clara Schumann 1. Prelude: The Wiecks of Leipzig 2. Career Begins 3. Robert Schumann and the Wiecks 4. The Break with Wieck 5. Marriage 6. The Dresden Years 7. Düsseldorf and the Death of Robert Schumann 8. The Later YearsPart II. Themes from the Life of Clara Schumann 9. Schumann and Johannes Brahms 10. Friends and Contemporaries 11. Clara Schumann as Composer and Editor 12. The Concert Artist 13. Clara Schumann as Student and TeacherCatalogue of WorksNotes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThree women, all philosophers, all of Jewish descent, provide a human face for a decade of crisis in this powerful and moving book. The dark years when the Nazis rose to power are here seen through the lives of Edith Stein, a disciple of Husserl and...Trade ReviewA fascinating and powerful account... I recommend Courtine-Denamy's book highly. It inspires one to delve more deeply into the study of these three women and their 'dark times.'. -- Michael J. Kerlin, La Salle University * Theological Studies *The darkness of the decade 1933-1943 was at least partially illumined by the energetic syntheses of thought and action that Courtine-Denamy skillfully examines in the three remarkable women of this book's subtitle. What animates the comparison are stark differences overlaid on basic similarities.... Highly readable. * Publishers Weekly *This dense and important book is an absorbing presentation of the lives and thinking of Edith Stein, Hannah Arendt, and Simone Weil, three brilliant 20th-century philosophers who remain influential today... Her book should be a springboard for those who wish to continue to read and carry on the work of the brave, clear-sighted women she has helped her readers understand. -- Sally Cunneen * National Catholic Reporter *

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Book SynopsisThis standard general biography of Champlain, the founder of Canada, was issued previously in the famous Makers of Canada Series, which is now out of print, although still in frequent use in libraries. This is the first time any of the volumes has been published separately from the complete set.

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Book SynopsisIn 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer travelling west toward Zion, with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America.Trade Review"An important and engrossing book, which reveals as much about the appetites and formulas of emerging mass culture as it does about tribal cultures in nineteenth-century America."—Times Literary Supplement"An easy, flowing read, one you won't be able to put down."—Christian Science Monitor"The Blue Tattoo is well-researched history that reads like unbelievable fiction, telling the story of Olive Oatman, the first tattooed American white woman. . . . Mifflin weaves together Olive's story with the history of American westward expansion, the Mohave, tattooing in America, and captivity literature in the 1800s."—Elizabeth Quinn, Bust"In The Blue Tattoo, Margot Mifflin slices away the decades of mythology and puts the story in its proper historical context. What emerges is a riveting, well-researched portrait of a young woman—a survivor, but someone marked for life by the experience."—Jon Shumaker, Tucson Weekly"The Blue Tattoo is well written and well researched; it re-opens the story of white women and men going West and Native people trying to survive these travels."—June Namias, Pacific Historical Review“Mifflin’s treatment of Olive’s sojourns [provides] an excellent teaching opportunity about America’s ongoing captivation with ethnic/gender crossings.”—Western American Literature “Although Oatman’s story on its own is full of intrigue, Mifflin adeptly uses her tale as a springboard for larger issues of the time.”—Feminist Review“Mifflin engagingly describes Oatman’s ordeal and theorizes about its impact on Oatman herself as well as on popular imagination…. Her book adds nuance to Oatman’s story and also humanizes the Mohave who adopted her. Recommended for general readers as well as students and scholars.”—Library Journal"Margot Mifflin sketches out a life in fine detail in her book The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman . . . . It rouses strong metaphors with timeless applications: the idea of what marks us, that which comprises our stories and how they are interpreted, appropriated or manipulated."—Melissa Corliss Delorenzo, Her Circle“Margot Mifflin has written a winner. . . . The Blue Tattoo offers quite intense drama along with thorough scholarship.”—Elmore Leonard, best-selling author of Three-Ten to Yuma and Other StoriesTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: Emigrant Song1. Quicksand2. Indian Country3. "How Little We Thought What Was Before Us"4. A Year with the Yavapais5. Lorenzo's Tale6. Becoming Mohave7. Deeper8. "There Is a Happy Land, Far, Far Away"9. Journey to Yuma10. Hell's Outpost11. Rewriting History in Gassburg, Oregon12. Captive Audiences13. "We Met as Friends, Giving the Left Hand in Friendship"14. Olive Fairchild, TexanEpilogue: Oatman's Literary Half-LifeNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisLouise Pound (1872-1958) was a distinguished literary scholar, renowned athlete, accomplished musician, and devoted women's sports advocate. She is perhaps best remembered for her groundbreaking work in the field of linguistics and folklore and for her role as the first woman president of the Modern Language Association. Readers of varied interests will find her story compelling.Trade Review"This well-written biography details all aspects of Pound's life as scholar, athlete, and advocate for women's sports."—J. C. Tucker, CHOICE"Cochran's straightforward biography is a pleasure to read."—William M. Clements, Journal of Folklore Research"Cochran's well-researched and well-written book places Louise Pound securely in her time and place and reveals much about the plight of women in higher education in a not-so-distant past. . . . It is an invaluable work on the history of women in the professions in the early twentieth century."—Shirley Anne Leckie, Journal of American History"Robert Cochran serves his subject well in this biography of Louise Pound."—Catriona Parratt, Annals of IowaTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgments 1. "I have always been satisfied with Nebraska"2. "The iridescent glamor of life beginning"3. "A genuine Nebraska cyclone"4. "She's an athlete; she's a scholar"5. "Incapable of orderly thought"6. "There is always zest"7. "First woman again" NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisSince first learning to handle a Winchester.22 as a kid, Dan Aadland has exulted in hunting—not as a sport but as a calling. In this book he takes readers to Montana’s prairies and mountains in search of antelope, whitetail deer, moose, and the occasional upland bird as he vividly describes the rituals and camaraderie of hunting culture.Trade Review"The real story is Aadland's love affair with Big Sky country and its inhabitants, wild and human alike. Look elsewhere for the inflated opinions of visiting 'experts': the author's clear, concise prose springs naturally from the land he's called home for decades. Whether he's addressing the logistics of a dead moose, four horses, a long trail and no human help, or exploring the romance and practicality of traditional archery, Aadland writes from the heart. He even tackles the why of hunting as ably as any observer in recent memory. Enjoy this book as you would a long evening around a campfire with the best of friends. The Best of All Seasons deserves nothing less."-E. Donnall Thomas Jr., author of The Language of Wings -- E. Donnall Thomas Jr. "The Best of All Seasons, Fifty Years as a Montana Hunter, is much more than a recount of personal adventures. In prose that engages the interest of hunters and nonhunters alike, Aadland carries the reader to a Montana that is both distant and yet familiar... With a deft touch for detail, Aadland describes scenes that ring true for generations of Montana hunters."-Linda Halstead-Acharya, The Billings Gazette -- Linda Halstead-Acharya The Billings Gazette

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Book SynopsisAn early modern domestic and spiritual memoir, this book depicts the life of Alice Thornton (1626-1707), a complex, contradictory woman caught in the changing fortunes and social realities of the seventeenth century.Trade Review“This first modern edition . . . of Alice Thornton’s autobiography is not just important to scholars of early modern history and literature; it is essential.”—Catherine Loomis, author of The Death of Elizabeth I: Remembering and Reconstructing the Virgin Queen “A valuable addition to the discussion of how early modern people experienced and negotiated grief, loss, and illness.”—Joe Eldridge Carney, author of Fairy Tale Queens: Representations of Early Modern Queenship Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionEditorial Principles and DocumentationMy First BookeBpp Halls Obseruations in his booke of Meditations And VowesA PraierThe dedicationThe birth of Alice WandesfordeProuerbesA Preface to the bookeVppon my deliuerance from death, by a fall when I was 3 years oldA preseruation in the MeassellsA Preseruation in the smale-Pox, 1631The first dawning of Gods Spirit in my heartA deliuerance from a fire in London, 1631My Mothers goeing into Ireland, 1632, 33, 34, 35A great deliuerance from drowning In Ireland by a fall out of the CoachA great deliuerance from a 2d fall att Sr Robert Merideths in Dublin, 1637A deliuerance from a fire & other remarkablesA dreadfull fire in the Castle of Dublin, 1638A deliuerance from Ship-Rack in A Passage into IrelandA thankesgiueing for our deliuerances affter our dangerous passage by SeaObseruations vppon seuerall accidents happening in Ireland vppon the Earle of Strafford . . . and on his fatall murder, may 12, 1641A Relation conserning my Honoured Father, the Lord Deputy Wandesforde, & of his Death, December 3d 1640Account of the Lord Deputys DeathMeditations & Praier vppon the Death of my Honoured FatherA Praier vppon my fathers DeathA Prayer to be said before wee Receiue, Made by my father before he went into Ireland, 1628My Mothers Preseruation from the Irish Rebellion, October 23d 1641. A Thankesgiueing for our great deliuerationA thankesgiueing for preseruation from the Rebellion in Ireland, Octb 23, 1641Vppon my Mothers comming to Weschester from Ireland & of my haueing the Smale PoxA Thankesgiueing affter my recouery from the smale Pox in weschester, 1642A discourse of passages & deliuerances of my Mother & vs 3 ChildrenA deliuerance from a Surfett of Lobster att Richmond, 1643A Gratefull Remembrance of my beeing preserued from the fury of the warresA great deliurance from the violence of a Rape from Ierimy SmithsonMy deliurance from Drowning in the Riuer att Midlam . . . in the yeare 1644The death of My Sister Danby, September 30th 1645, att her house at ThorpeThe death of my Cosen Iohn Norton, 1646The death of Sr Edward Osborne, 1646The marriage of my Cozen Edmund NortonThe death of my Cosen Edmund NortonVppon the beheading of King Charles the Martyr Ian 30th 1648The death of my cozen Iulian NortonVppon the Death of my brother George Wandesforde, March 31, 1651, & of his Sequestration, & other troublesA Lamentation, & Prayer, vppon the death of my honoured brother George Wandesforde EsquireVppon the reconsileing of my two Brothers George & Christopher WandesfordAn Eligie vpon George Wandesford Esqr on his vnfortunate Death, by the Honourable Sr Christopher Wyuill BarronettObseruations of Gods goodnesse . . . in the time of the Warres & DistractionsThe Marriage of my Cosen Mary NortonThe Marriage of my brother Christopher WandesfordeThe Mariage of Alice Wandesforde, December 15, 1651A Relation of the Remarkable passages of my Life Since my MarriageA deliuerance from death that day on which I was married, December 15th 1651Meditations vpon my deliuerance of my first Childe, & of the great sicknesse followedA praier & thankesgiueing for my deliuerance of my first Childe August 6th 1652Vppon the Birth of my Second childe, & Daughter Alice ThorntonA praier & thanksgiueing for my deliuerance of my Second daughter Ian. 3d 1654Meditations vppon the birth of my 3d childe Eliz. Thornton, borne the 14th of February 1655A thanksgiueing affter the birth of my 3d childe BettyThe death of my husbands MotherThe death of my husbands father in LawThe death of my husbands brother Richeard ThorntonMeditation vppon the birth of my 4th childe Katherin Thornton Iune 12th 1656A prayer before the deliuery of my daughter Alice Thornton, Iune the 12th 1656, by Alice WandesfordA Thankesgiueing affter the deliuery of my Daughter Alice ThorntonElizabeth Thorntons death, the 5th of September 1656A Praier After the death of my 3d childe Betty ThorntonVppon my great fall I had, beeing with childe of my 5th, September 14th 1657Meditations on the deliuerance of my first Sonne and fifth Childe, Att Hipswell the 10th of December 1657A praier vpon my preseruation affter the birth of my first Sonn & his deathMy Cure of Bleeding at Scarbrough, August 1659A thanksgiueing affter my recouery1659. Considerations on the Publike TroublesA Praier to God for the Church & restoration of the King, Nouember 1659A Relation conserning my deare & honoured Mother the Lady Wandesforde & of her Death December 10th 1659The relattion of her sicknesse heere followesSeuerall Prayers made by my Mother proper for the time of the holy Sacrament as EiaculationsMy deliuery of my Son William, my 6th childe, & of his deathVerses vpon the incertainty of Earthly comfortA thankesgiuing for the restoration of King Charlesthe second of his Coronation, May 29th 1660A Praier & Thanksgiueing for deliuerance from destruction of the Kingdom, 1660Vppon my Husband & Families Remouall from St Nickolas to Oswold Church, neare Newton, Iune 10, 1660My greatt Sicknesse att oswoldkirke february 13th 1661Vppon our comeing to liue at Newton affter the house was built in the yeare 1662, Iune the 10thOf the grand mercy I had in the first Sacrament at Easte Newton affter we built the house, August 1662Mr Coluills Settlement of Mr Thorntons Estate, 1662Vppon my deliuerance of my Sonne Robert Thornton, my 7th Childe, . . . September 19th 1662A Thanksgiueing affter my deliuerance of my Son RobertMr Thorntons Preseruation from drowning, Oct. 1664Vpon the birth of my 8th Childe Ioyce Thornton Sept. 23d 1665A Relation of Mr Thorntons dangerous fitt of the Palsie at Steersby No. 16th 1665A Prayer after Mr Thorntons Recouery, No. 28th 1665Vppon my deare Ioyce her death Ian. 26, 1665Vpon my Daughter Alice preseruation in a sirfitt Iune 13th 1665Of my dangerous Sickenesse, August 16th 1666The great fire in LondonMy daughter Katherine Thorntons preseruation in the smale Pox the 29th of Sept. 1666The death of my Brother Iohn Wandesford, De. 2d 1666The murder of my Cosen William NortonMy Son Roberts haueing the smale Pox Ian. 5, 1667, and of his recouery perfectly againeMy daughter Alice Thornton her Smale Pox, Ian. 25, 67My nephew John Dentons smale PoxThe 8th of Aprill 1667 Nally had a Pearle on her EyeKate Thornton was preserued from choakeingHer preseruation from death by a fallThe Murder of my deare Nephew Thomas Danby August 1, 1667The birth of my Sonne Christopher, my 9th Childe, No. 11, 1667, & of his Death, Dec. 1st 1667My trouble vpon Seuerall accidentsConsiderations vpon Mr Thorntons Seuerall relapses & of the Signing the Childrens Settlement for PortionsOn Mrs Anne Danbys going to Hooly Ap. 20, 67Vppon my Sad condittion & Sicknesse that beffell me by the Slanders Raised against me, Iuly 20th 1668Vppon my lamentable abuses of fallse slanders raised against me, Iuly 20th 1668My Son Robert Thornton preserued Iuly 25, 1668A relation of the last sicknesse and Death of my deare & honoured husband Willm Thornton Esqr . . . September 17th 1668Prayers & Pettitions vpon this Sad Dispensation of the death of my deare & honoured husbandThe Widdowes Praieer for her self & ChilderenOur Sauiours commandMr Thorntons Motto & my owneVerces vpon Christ & the ChurchAgainst the feares of DeathAn inducement to loue HeauenA faire-well to the WorldMy faithfull Soules wishVppon Rash CensorersVerses vpon the loss of my deare brother George WandesfordAnagramAcrostickeNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Looking at and listening to Densmore's research again is a new starting point for how we understand anthropology, ethnography, indigenous societies, and the gender and other dimensions of our own society."—Jack David Eller, Anthropology Review DatabaseBy providing this rich account of Densmore's life, times, and thought, the volume contributes more than just a biography of a single scholar. A thoughtful meditation on how intertwined lives are made, remembered, and forgotten, it deserves to be read by anyone interested in the history of anthropology or museum studies."—Alex Golub, Museum Anthropology Review“Frances Densmore’s archive of Native American music, photographs, and material culture is indispensable to scholars. Yet she remains an elusive figure. Travels with Frances Densmore takes us into her world. It is a moving, engrossing record of a woman’s self-professionalization and devotion to science at the turn of the twentieth century.”—Sally Cole, professor of anthropology at Concordia University and author of Ruth Landes: A Life in AnthropologyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Traveling with Frances Densmore Joan M. Jensen and Michelle Wick PattersonPart 1. Frances Densmore’s Life and Work1. She Always Said, “I Heard an Indian Drum” Michelle Wick Patterson2. Becoming Two White Buffalo Woman Michelle Wick Patterson3. By Train, by Boat, by Model T Joan M. Jensen4. Getting the Depression Blues Joan M. Jensen5. Cut, Paste, Delete, Preserve Michelle Wick Patterson6. Gone but Not Quite Forgotten Joan M. JensenPart 2. Conversations7. Miss Densmore Meets the Ojibwes: Frances Densmore’s Ethnomusicology Studies among the Grand Portage Ojibwes in 1905 Nancy L. Woolworth8. Songs of Healing: Music Therapy of Native America, a Medical Ethnomusicology Study Stephanie Thorne9. Familiar Faces: Densmore’s Minnesota Photographs Bruce White10. Collection with a Mission: Frances Densmore’s Chippewa Artifacts Carolyn Gilman11. An Archival Dilemma: The Densmore Cylinder Recording Speeds Judith Gray12. Frances Densmore’s Chippewa Music Thomas J. Vennum Jr.Conclusion: A Picture Is Worth Deconstructing Joan M. Jensen and Michelle Wick PattersonNote on Sources: How to Continue Traveling with Densmore Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Reidel . . . provides an intimate view of an indecipherable poet, critic, painter, musician, and filmmaker whom some critics (e.g. Dana Gioia) have long considered woefully underappreciated. This book may help change that. . . . Reidel's invitation into Kees's life leaves the reader reaching for his poetry, hungry for clues."—Choice"The biography of an American writer who is not nearly as famous as he ought to be. . . . Weldon Kees (1914–55?) is the 'nearly' man of 20th-century American poetry—and . . . fiction, art and music and poetry criticism, Abstract Expressionist painting, traditional jazz (both pianism and composition), avant-garde theatricals and documentary filmmaking. Until I read the poet James Reidel's biography, Vanished Act, I had not realized how 'nearly' Kees was, and how far he came, in so many fields of artistic endeavor. . . . [A] really good, well-written and thoughtful biography."—Michael Hofmann, The New York Times Book Review"Poet, fiction writer, painter, critic, filmmaker, playwright, musician—Weldon Kees had a seemingly bottomless supply of creativity and an artistic output as diverse as anyone working in the years surrounding World War II. . . . Vanished Act, the first biography of the artist to appear . . . [is] a thorough, clear-eyed account of Kees's life."—Washington Post Book World“Long overdue biography of an important American poet. . . . Reidel's two decades of scholarship fleshes out the details in the life of this enigmatic 20th-century writer and artist.”—Kirkus“The story of Weldon Kees is not so much one of an achievement as it is the story of an aspiration and its afterglow. The man has a dusky, flickering allure. . . . James Reidel does not attempt to make the story any happier than it is. He frames his biography with images of ones who were left behind. . . . Reidel is right to give the book a novelist’s mood-setting touches, and he is right to have shaped the account in terms of the places where Kees lived, with long sections on Nebraska, New York, Provincetown, and San Francisco. Yet, in the end this remains a conventional biography, an attempt to step back and let the life tell itself.”—Jed Perl, Harper’s Magazine"[We are] privy to the life, art, and anxieties of a man . . . poignantly representative of the artist's struggle to survive in wartime and post-war America. . . . Reidel has meticulously catalogued a complicated and engaging life. This book (to be followed this winter by a volume of poems and a collection of critical essays on Kees, also from University of Nebraska Press) will be of great interest to Kees's admirers and should also broaden their ranks."—Jennifer Liese, Bookforum“Mr. Reidel uses biography as a poetic form. His mission is to re-create the experience that drew people to Kees, who enchanted women and men alike because he completely immersed himself in art and made his life into art.”—Carl Rollyson, The New York Sun“Reidel has done a great deal with Kees’ 41 years, producing a 400 page book dedicated to the man’s known life and work. . . . His prose is clean, compelling, and reads with the ease of a novel. In doing so, it gives us another valuable history—social, aesthetic, and political—of the thirties, forties, and start of the fifties.”—Stephen Motika, Another Chicago Magazine“Now, for the first time, a biographer has tried to unravel Kees' complicated world. [P]oet and editor James Reidel hopes to introduce a wider world to the talent and contradictions of Kees.”—Omaha World-Herald“Vanished Act lucidly examines Kees’s heartbreaking life.”—David Caplan, The Weekly Standard

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book, Cora Du Bois: Anthropologist, Diplomat, Agent, deserves wide readership."—Laura Nader, Los Angeles Review of Books"In the heavens of women in early anthropology, Cora Du Bois is generally eclipsed by the more famous Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict, but both her work and her life deserve our attention and admiration, and Susan Seymour gives her the biography that she merits."—Jack David Eller, Anthropology Review Database"Seymour is a fine biographer and writer who makes the most of extraordinary sources to bring this intrepid woman to life in a readable book that belongs in all libraries."—R. Berleant-Schiller, CHOICE"Seymour's meticulously researched biography on Cora Du Bois skillfully weaves together threads from a myriad of often obscure, intensely personal documents, to produce a magnificent reconstruction of the life and personality of this major anthropological figure."—Carol Mukhopadhyay, Association for Feminist Anthropology"This biography of Cora Du Bois will be of interest to those concerned with the beginnings of the personality and culture school in early American anthropology; with the notable women anthropologists in this school; with the broader history of this anthropology, its central figures and its impact on theory and on fieldwork on both the west and east coasts; and with the history of science most generally of all."—Naomi Quinn, Ethos"This book gives an excellent picture of a life, a time, and a profession."—Alice E. Schlegel, American Anthropologist“This biography is a page-turner, with writing that is lively and vivid, and Cora’s own correspondence, journal entries, and poetry give the book a very ‘first-person’ feel. There’s a lot to learn here.”—Louise Lamphere, Distinguished Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, and past president of the American Anthropological Association“Susan Seymour has produced a captivating, extremely well-written narrative that has much to offer multiple audiences that include anthropologists and students of the history of ideas and social science, but also more general readers interested in the biography of a brilliant, independent gay woman who forged an important career in an era when social obstacles made such accomplishments very rare.”—David H. Price, professor of anthropology and sociology at Saint Martin’s University and the author of Weaponizing Anthropology: Social Science in Service of the Militarized State Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Editors’ Introduction Preface Resources and Acknowledgments Prologue: Cora and Me Chapter 1. Tomgirl Chapter 2. Escape and Resolve Chapter 3. Becoming an Anthropologist Chapter 4. Culture and Personality Chapter 5. A Pioneer in Culture and Personality Research Chapter 6. World War II and the OSS Chapter 7. Disillusionment in the Cold War Era Chapter 8. Harvard, Crown of Roses or Thorns? Chapter 9. Sociocultural Change in India Chapter 10. Looking Inward Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A welcome contribution to women's sports biographies."—Booklist Starred Review"An inspiring and important account, told with grace and self-awareness that will appeal to baseball and sports fans along with readers interested in LGBTQ memoirs."—Janet Davis, Library Journal“At last! The moving story of Ila Borders, as told to the gifted author and researcher Jean Ardell, will make readers wonder how much longer the baseball establishment can afford to disregard the skilled women players who should long ago have been recruited for the Minors and the Majors.”—Dorothy Seymour Mills, baseball historian and author of Drawing Card: A Baseball Novel “As a girl, Ila Borders had a dream. That dream became a desire, and that desire blossomed into a crusade: she would play baseball. Not softball. Baseball. She would throw the hard stuff past brawny male sluggers. Jean Hastings Ardell tells the story of this twilight figure coming out of the shadows to join a not always receptive mainstream. You may laugh. You may shed a tear. But surely you will applaud.”—Arnold Hano, author of A Day in the Bleachers“Ila Borders pitched her way through the special hell reserved for women who play baseball in America and has returned with enough inside baseball knowledge to please the most passionate fan. . . . [Making My Pitch is] a riveting, deeply personal story and a compelling addition to the fast-growing literature on American women in baseball.”—Jennifer Ring, author of A Game of Their Own: Voices of Contemporary Women in Baseball “This book is a walk through baseball history as Ila brings the reader with her on her journey from Little League to independent ball and beyond. Ila’s story is not a typical baseball story, and everyone needs to read this book.”—Leslie Heaphy, associate professor of history at Kent State University at Stark and coeditor of The Encyclopedia of Women and Baseball “This book is a must-read for understanding what it’s like to be a baseball first. Ila’s courage to keep going forward against all odds is both inspiring and meaningful.”—Justine Siegal, founder of Baseball For All “The best baseball books are about more than the game. In this evocative memoir, lefthander Ila Borders recounts her struggles in the male world of professional baseball.”—George Gmelch, author of Playing with Tigers: A Minor League Chronicle of the Sixties “Ila Borders is a role model. As the father of two daughters, both of whom have played, watched, and read about sports for as long as they have been able to do so, I have long awaited her memoir.”—Steve Gietschier, associate professor of history at Lindenwood UniversityTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsForewordAcknowledgmentsNote to the ReaderPrologue1. Beginnings: Little League2. Lipstick Adolescence3. College: Pitching through Adversity4. Mike Veeck and the St. Paul Saints5. Duluth-Superior Dukes: Being “Babe”6. The Dukes: Nailing a Win7. Another Team, Another Town8. Out of the Game9. LossEpilogueNotes

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Book SynopsisProvides an account of Cassidy's life.Trade Review"[Patterson] deftly separates mythology from actual events, bringing the story of Butch Cassidy up to date with all the most recent discoveries. This lively read is well researched and definitive."—Choice"For those who wish the most complete and readable summary of all that has thus far been written on Butch Cassidy, Richard Patterson's biography of him presently stands as that work"—Utah Historical Quarterly

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Book SynopsisJohn Wayne remains a constant in American popular culture. Middle America grew up with him in late 1920s and 1930s, went to war with him in 1940s, matured with him in 1950s, and kept the faith with him in the 1960s and 1970s... This is a biography that reveals the changing scene in Hollywood and America from Great Depression through Vietnam War.Trade Review"All students of Hollywood will find [this biography of John Wayne] fascinating and rewarding."—London Times Literary Supplement"Writing in a plain-spoken style that avoids both fanzine and academic cant, the authors nicely retell the story of Wayne’s relationship with John Ford, the director most responsible for setting him apart from the gunslinging crowd."—New York Times Book Review"Recommended for all film collections."—Library Journal

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Book SynopsisAn important contribution to Indian ethnohistory and to the literature of the Lewis and Clark expedition.Trade Review"Particularly valuable for Ronda's inclusion of pertinent background information about the various tribes and for his ethnological analysis. An appendix also places the Sacagawea myth in its proper perspective. Gracefully written, the book bridges the gap between academic and general audiences."—Choice"James P. Ronda in Lewis and Clark among the Indians has drawn from the journals and other documents a compelling narrative of the expedition's encounters with the Indians. It is a story of discovery and suspense, and it is told with a modern concern to understand the Indian side as well as the white in the meeting of the two cultures."—William and Mary Quarterly"A welcome and progressive volume in the growing literature on the significance of America's most famous exploratory trek. James Ronda retraces the trail of Lewis and Clark and provides a refreshing context to an event in U.S. history that has become part of our national mythology. . . . He also gives faces and personalities to the many native leaders and their kinsmen and kinswomen who hosted, traded with, slept with, and on occasion scrapped with the expeditionaries."—Ethnohistory"This book is an important contribution to Indian ethnohistory and to the literature of the Lewis and Clark expedition."—American Indian Quarterly

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Book SynopsisBruno Walter, one of the twentieth century's greatest conductors, lived a fascinating life in difficult times. This book is a biography of Walter. It tells of Walter's close friendship with Gustav Mahler, his relations with Thomas Mann and his family, and his romantic involvement with the soprano Delia Reinhardt.Trade Review"A major contribution to the literature . . . essential reading."—Mortimer Frank, Fanfare"Highly readable . . . this book rates not only as a labor of love but as an authority."—Richard Buell, The Boston Globe"Timely and welcome . . . a steady, evenhanded chronicle of Walter’s career."—Allan Keiler, New York Review of Books

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Book SynopsisTen outlaws, ten states, ten stories of nineteenth-century fugitives remarkable because the events really took place. Mark Dugan’s latest outlaw chase reins in enough evidence to corral the cynics.Trade Review“While the stories in Dugan’s book may be ‘tales never told around the campfire,’ they sure are worth reading by armchair historians around the fireplace on a cold winter’s evening.” * Plains Anthropologist *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Luminous, erudite, diabolically ironic, and wonderfully wild, Francoise Davoine's Mother Folly turns psychiatry on its head. Taking her lead from that great satirical work by Erasmus, The Praise of Folly, Davoine has created a hybrid text, which combines elements of the novel, theatrical production, philosophical meditation, and narrative history to expose the absurdities of contemporary platitudes about mental illness and its treatment and to reveal the hidden truths of trauma and madness."—Siri Hustvedt"Françoise Davoine's unique, vibrant tale of folly's journey takes us on many paths, and in doing so, shows us folly's place in history and its startling and painful resonances in the consulting room. Simply brilliant."—Valerie Walkerdine, Cardiff University

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Book SynopsisIf your mentally ill patient dies, are you to blame? For Dr. Françoise Davoine, a Parisian psychoanalyst, this question becomes disturbingly real as one of her patients commits suicide on the eve of All Saints'' Day. She herself has a crisis, as she reflects on her thirty-year career and questions whether she should ever return to the hospital. But return she does, and thus commences a strange voyage across several centuries and countries, in which patients, fools, and the actors of medieval farces rise up from the past along with great thinkers who represent the author''s own philosophical and literary sources: the humanist Erasmus, mathematician René Thom, writer Antonin Artaud, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, and physicist Edwin Schrödinger, to name a few. Imaginary dialogues ensue as the analyst conjures up an interconnected world, where apiculture, wondrous rituals, theater, and language games illuminate her therapeutic practice as well as her personal history. Deeply affectedTrade Review"Luminous, erudite, diabolically ironic, and wonderfully wild, Francoise Davoine's Mother Folly turns psychiatry on its head. Taking her lead from that great satirical work by Erasmus, The Praise of Folly, Davoine has created a hybrid text, which combines elements of the novel, theatrical production, philosophical meditation, and narrative history to expose the absurdities of contemporary platitudes about mental illness and its treatment and to reveal the hidden truths of trauma and madness."—Siri Hustvedt"Françoise Davoine's unique, vibrant tale of folly's journey takes us on many paths, and in doing so, shows us folly's place in history and its startling and painful resonances in the consulting room. Simply brilliant."—Valerie Walkerdine, Cardiff University

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Book SynopsisThis book, which features the autobiographical narrative of Mistress Mary Hampson, a 17th-century woman in an abusive and violent marriage, reconstructs the events in and around this harrowing tale and rescues a compelling and complicated voice from the past.Trade Review"An astonishingly detailed case-study of a troubled marriage and its consequences, this volume offers readers the opportunity to look at the Hampson marriage from different points of view, across time and genre, and in a range of contexts." -- Frances Dolan, University of California * Davis *"What a fantastic text for scholars of early modern women, marriage and marital conflict! We hear the story of a troubled, abusive marriage in Mary Hampson's own words set against Dr. Malay's expert explanation of married women's legal position and its repercussions for notions of marital abuse. A great resource for teachers and students alike." -- JoAnne Bailey * Oxford Brookes University *"Hampson's short autobiographical narrative of her profoundly troubled marriage is usefully contextualized with an essay on early modern marriage and the asphyxiating practice of coverture, which denied women any separate legal identity or control over the property they brought to the marriage, Malay usefully reviews the archival evidence that complicates and expands upon Hampson's own account. She also connects the case to contemporary debates about the desacralization of marriage and the possibility of divorce . . . her volume offers a valuable teaching tool." -- Barbara Fuchs * Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *"This is a remarkably detailed and engaging study that bears witness to the authority that seventeenth-century women could find in the written word." -- Alice Eardley * Times Literary Supplement *

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Book SynopsisThis book, which features the autobiographical narrative of Mistress Mary Hampson, a 17th-century woman in an abusive and violent marriage, reconstructs the events in and around this harrowing tale and rescues a compelling and complicated voice from the past.Trade Review"An astonishingly detailed case-study of a troubled marriage and its consequences, this volume offers readers the opportunity to look at the Hampson marriage from different points of view, across time and genre, and in a range of contexts." -- Frances Dolan, University of California * Davis *"What a fantastic text for scholars of early modern women, marriage and marital conflict! We hear the story of a troubled, abusive marriage in Mary Hampson's own words set against Dr. Malay's expert explanation of married women's legal position and its repercussions for notions of marital abuse. A great resource for teachers and students alike." -- JoAnne Bailey * Oxford Brookes University *"Hampson's short autobiographical narrative of her profoundly troubled marriage is usefully contextualized with an essay on early modern marriage and the asphyxiating practice of coverture, which denied women any separate legal identity or control over the property they brought to the marriage, Malay usefully reviews the archival evidence that complicates and expands upon Hampson's own account. She also connects the case to contemporary debates about the desacralization of marriage and the possibility of divorce . . . her volume offers a valuable teaching tool." -- Barbara Fuchs * Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *"This is a remarkably detailed and engaging study that bears witness to the authority that seventeenth-century women could find in the written word." -- Alice Eardley * Times Literary Supplement *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA thorough, well-presented, and important contribution to scholarship concerning the Cherokees. . . . [T]hose who presume to study Cherokee history during Ross's lifetime must consult these two volumes and must thank Moulton for having done much of the basic legwork for them."" - Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., in the Journal of American History

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Book SynopsisAn account of outlaws and lawmen in Oklahoma Teritory from the Run of '89 to statehood in 1907. The author dispels myths and deflates the romanticism that made heroes out of barbarians. This is the story of men who risked their lives every time they rode out to maintain law and order.

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Book SynopsisA collection of exciting, absorbing personal accounts from survivors of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. It includes interviews with John Martin, trumpeter and orderly to Custer; Medal of Honor winner Stanislas Roy; Second Lt. Winfield Edgerly; Second Lt. Charles DeRudio; Private Roman Rutten; and other Seventh Cavalry men and officers.Trade ReviewSolid, firsthand material bearing on the Custer fight, invaluable to anyone studying the Little Bighorn."" - Robert Utley author of Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier""Custer in '76 is a treasure trove of information, and stands as one of the few essential books in the vast Custer bibliography."" - Paul A. Hutton editor of The Custer Reader

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Book SynopsisThis account presents the military side of the struggle represented by the Great Sioux War, and offers 15 accounts, with maps, of the many engagements as they were observed by participating officers, enlisted men, scouts, surgeons and newspaper correspondents.

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Book SynopsisOf all the Old West figures whose images eventually found their way into our popular culture, none was better known than Wild Bill Hickok. This book reproduces in one volume nearly all the known portraits of Wild Bill, together with photographs of his family, his friends and his foes.

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Book SynopsisFrom his birth in Brownfield, Texas, to a family so poor “they could only afford a tumbleweed as a pet”, Bob Hinkle went on to gain acclaim in Hollywood. Through it all, he remained the salty, down-to-earth former rodeo cowboy from West Texas. More than forty photographs complement this rousing, never-dull memoir.

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Book SynopsisThe definitive book on the ultimate mob boss—featuring new FBI revelations, rare family photos, and never-before-published material . . .   To authorities, Frank Costello was “The Prime Minister of the Underworld” and “one of the most powerful and influential Mafia leaders in the U.S.” To friends and associates, he was simply “Uncle Frank.” Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Anthony M. DeStefano sets out to answer who Frank Costello really was in this definitive portrait of one of the most fascinating figures in the annals of American crime . . .   Using newly released FBI files, eyewitness accounts, and family mementos, Top Hoodlum takes you inside the Mafia that Frank Costello helped build from the ground up. These are the riveting stories and stunning revelations that have inspired American crime classics like The Godfather, Casino, Goodfellas, and The Sopranos. This is the man

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Book SynopsisVINCENT “CHIN” GIGANTE   He started out as a professional boxer—until he found his true calling as a ruthless contract killer. Hand-picked by Vito Genovese to run the Genovese Family when Vito was sent to prison, Chin raked in more than $100 million for the Genovese family and routinely ordered the murders of mobsters who violated the Mafia code—including John Gotti. At the height of his power, he controlled an underworld empire of close to three hundred made men, making the Genovese Family the most powerful in the U.S.   And yet Vincent “Chin” Gigante was, to all outside appearances, certifiably crazy.   He wandered the streets of Greenwich Village in a ratty bathrobe and slippers. He urinated in public, played pinochle in storefronts, and hid a second family from his wife. On twenty-two occasions, he admitted himself to a mental hospital—evading criminal prosecution while insuring his continued re

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