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Book SynopsisIda Lupino, Director shines a long-awaited spotlight on one of our greatest filmmakers, one whose movies depicted the plights of postwar women and exposed the dark underside of American society. The authors show Lupino as a trailblazing feminist auteur who created a distinctive style in film and television that was both highly expressionistic and grittily realistic.Trade Review"[A] landmark study of this underrecognized director. The book couldn't be timelier… Grisham and Grossman do not consider their subject narrowly as a woman filmmaker. They present Lupino broadly as a pioneer independent moviemaker and director." * Film Quarterly *"Exactly the serious study Ida Lupino deserves, this superb book sketches her directing career against larger developments in postwar Hollywood, demonstrating her feminist impact on a changing industry." -- Shelley Stamp * author of Lois Weber in Early Hollywood *"Low budget, unheralded and genre bending, Lupino’s work has never received its full due. Grisham and Grossman’s sensitive study, informed by thorough research and new paradigms, provides a welcome corrective." -- Sarah Kozloff * author of Overhearing Film Dialogue *"One of Hollywood’s few female directors, Ida Lupino was a true maverick, making movies with the same steely determination and emotional sensitivity that characterized her work as an actor. Therese Grisham and Julie Grossman’s thoughtful study sheds a welcome light on an oeuvre that has been too long obscured." -- J. Hoberman * author of Film After Film: Or, What Became Of 21st Century Cinema? *"Grossman and Grisham's book is an urgently needed and long overdue reclamation of the directorial work of Ida Lupino, one of the most significant auteurs of the twentieth century. Cineastes will be delighted by this dazzling, well written, and comprehensive book." -- Gwendolyn Audrey Foster * coauthor of A Short History of Film *"[A] groundbreaking and judiciously comprehensive study." * South Atlantic Review *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Note on Quotations Part I. Introducing Ida Lupino, Director and Feminist Author A Rejection of Hollywood Lupino Directs Director Lupino and Colleagues The Filmakers’ Films Lupino and the Censors Lupino as Feminist Auteur Postwar Hollywood, American Society and Culture Close-up on Outrage Empathy and a Cinema of Engagement Italian Neorealism or American Realisms? Looking Backward? Outrage and M Part II. Lupino’s Ingenious Genres: Early Films and The Trouble with Angels (1966) The Social Problem Film and Film Noir Home Noir Home Is Where the Noir Is Doubled Dreams in Hard, Fast and Beautiful Doubled Domesticity in The Bigamist Doubled Trauma: Outrage A Mighty Girl: Lupino and The Trouble with Angels Part III: Lupino Moves to Television Industrial Contexts: Film to Television Directing for Television “No. 5 Checked Out” Ida Lupino, Television Director On Close Readings of 1950s and 1960s Television “The Return”: Norma Desmond and Ida Lupino Haunt the Small ScreenMr. Adams and Eve Directed Episodes, 1956–1968 Comedies Action, Thrillers, Mysteries Westerns Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisIda Lupino, Director shines a long-awaited spotlight on one of our greatest filmmakers, one whose movies depicted the plights of postwar women and exposed the dark underside of American society. The authors show Lupino as a trailblazing feminist auteur who created a distinctive style in film and television that was both highly expressionistic and grittily realistic.Trade Review"[A] landmark study of this underrecognized director. The book couldn't be timelier… Grisham and Grossman do not consider their subject narrowly as a woman filmmaker. They present Lupino broadly as a pioneer independent moviemaker and director." * Film Quarterly *"Exactly the serious study Ida Lupino deserves, this superb book sketches her directing career against larger developments in postwar Hollywood, demonstrating her feminist impact on a changing industry." -- Shelley Stamp * author of Lois Weber in Early Hollywood *"Low budget, unheralded and genre bending, Lupino’s work has never received its full due. Grisham and Grossman’s sensitive study, informed by thorough research and new paradigms, provides a welcome corrective." -- Sarah Kozloff * author of Overhearing Film Dialogue *"One of Hollywood’s few female directors, Ida Lupino was a true maverick, making movies with the same steely determination and emotional sensitivity that characterized her work as an actor. Therese Grisham and Julie Grossman’s thoughtful study sheds a welcome light on an oeuvre that has been too long obscured." -- J. Hoberman * author of Film After Film: Or, What Became Of 21st Century Cinema? *"Grossman and Grisham's book is an urgently needed and long overdue reclamation of the directorial work of Ida Lupino, one of the most significant auteurs of the twentieth century. Cineastes will be delighted by this dazzling, well written, and comprehensive book." -- Gwendolyn Audrey Foster * coauthor of A Short History of Film *"[A] groundbreaking and judiciously comprehensive study." * South Atlantic Review *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Note on Quotations Part I. Introducing Ida Lupino, Director and Feminist Author A Rejection of Hollywood Lupino Directs Director Lupino and Colleagues The Filmakers’ Films Lupino and the Censors Lupino as Feminist Auteur Postwar Hollywood, American Society and Culture Close-up on Outrage Empathy and a Cinema of Engagement Italian Neorealism or American Realisms? Looking Backward? Outrage and M Part II. Lupino’s Ingenious Genres: Early Films and The Trouble with Angels (1966) The Social Problem Film and Film Noir Home Noir Home Is Where the Noir Is Doubled Dreams in Hard, Fast and Beautiful Doubled Domesticity in The Bigamist Doubled Trauma: Outrage A Mighty Girl: Lupino and The Trouble with Angels Part III: Lupino Moves to Television Industrial Contexts: Film to Television Directing for Television “No. 5 Checked Out” Ida Lupino, Television Director On Close Readings of 1950s and 1960s Television “The Return”: Norma Desmond and Ida Lupino Haunt the Small ScreenMr. Adams and Eve Directed Episodes, 1956–1968 Comedies Action, Thrillers, Mysteries Westerns Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThis book chronicles the political and personal lives of progressive activists Richard and Miriam Flacks. Their story, rooted in ‘old left’ childhoods, shaped by the sixties New Left, and culminating in intellectual and community leadership, is a valuable first-hand account of how progressive American activism has evolved over the last 100 years. Trade Review"Mickey and Dick's joint autobiography gives a window onto the strands of culture and commitment that connect the social movements of the 1930s and 1960s. Movements do indeed teach each other!" -- Frances Fox Piven * The Graduate Center, City University of New York *"A moving and intelligent memoir of radical political engagement from the 1960’s to the present by two extraordinary people. The deeply personal, intimate nature of the account makes it an especially compelling read." -- Joan Wallach Scott * Institute for Advanced Study *"This is a book of two people who are living to build movement for a better world and build a life together. It is a delicious read. And we are all better for the lives they led." -- Heather Booth * political strategist, feminist, and civil rights activist *"[A] significant, clearheaded memoir." * Santa Barbara Independent *"SB Authors: Dick and Mickey's Epic Memoir" feature by Jerry Roberts * Newsmakers with Jerry Roberts *"The message...in this book, that living one’s values is found in all the 'little' choices forging professional, family and movement connections into a coherent and livable whole. Bringing such supposedly small personal bits into the whole picture of activism, like chocolate chips into the cookie dough, changes the flavor of the whole. And, like the blintz recipe, it is one that I can recommend as being as tasty as it seems — and easily shareable." * Public Seminar *"Making History, Making Blintzes, written in the alternating voices of Mickey and Dick, is an engaging account of two intertwined and well-lived lives over more than a half century of left-wing engagement." * Public Seminar *"New Books Network - New Books in Sociology" interview with Dick and Mickey Flacks * New Books Network *"The delightful back and forth of Mickey and Dick, often talking about the same events in their own voices and with different memories or perspectives, carries throughout the entire book making for a fast read. It’s true that they made plenty of blintzes, and oh what history did this lovely couple make along the way!" * Washtenan Jewish News *Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword vii 1 Sonia Hartman 1 2 A Red Diaper Baby: Mickey’s Story 12 3 Mildred Flacks 34 4 The House I Lived In: Dick’s Story 54 5 Coming of Age in the Fifties 72 6 Starting out in the Sixties 96 7 Our Sixties: Blowin’ in the Wind 155 8 Our Sixties: Making History Together 179 9 Our Sixties: Some Scenes from the Theater of “Revolution” 237 10 Our Sixties: 1968 and Beyond 253 11 Moving to California 309 12 A Long March? 348 13 Socialism in One City 364 14 Confessions of a Tenured Radical 395 15 Playing for Change 434 16 Some Things We’ve Learned about What’s Left 451 17 Trump Time 463 18 Last Words 468 Acknowledgments 477 Notes 479 Index

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Book SynopsisA biography of Willa Cather, presenting a writer whose life and quietly modernist work reflected the artistic and cultural tensions of her day. It seeks to portray a woman and an artist who exemplifies the ambivalence, foreboding and complexity which we associate with the 20th-century mind.

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Book SynopsisThe Henro Michi is one of the oldest and most famous pilgrimage routes in Japan. It consists of a circuit of eighty-eight temples around the perimeter of Shikoku. Over the course of two months, the author walked this 1,400-kilometre route (roughly 870 miles), visiting the sacred sites and performing their prescribed rituals.

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Book SynopsisRevealing the cruelties of the state-sanctioned violence that has until recently prevailed in Virginia’s backyard, Crossing the River Styx serves as a cautionary tale for those who still support capital punishment.

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Book SynopsisA genre-bending visual memoir and work of literary nonfiction that explores the questions: What inspires a person to write a love letter? What inspires a person to save a love letter even when the love has shifted or left? And what does it mean when a person uses someone else's love letters as a place from which to create their own sense of self?

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Book SynopsisA compelling biography which reinserts this forgotten Founding Father into the historical canon and reveals the transatlantic dimensions of early American historyTrade ReviewDungan diligently enumerates the Genevan’s contributions to American society. It will be eye-opening for students of American history to discover that in the early days of the United States, a Swiss nobleman acting as Thomas Jefferson’s secretary of the treasury managed the budget to create sizable surplus...[T]he book succeeds admirably in remembering a key figure in early American diplomacy, education, and financial regulation. * Publishers Weekly *Albert Gallatin was a significant political figure in the early republic, most prominently as Jefferson’s and Madison’s treasury secretary, and his name graces a river, a national forest, towns, and counties but not any recent general-interest biography: extant titles are decades or, in the case of one by Henry Adams, more than a century old. Displaying Gallatin in his public and private dimensions, Dungan ably reacquaints history readers with the official who carried out Jefferson’s policies. * Booklist *With the feverish rhetoric of anti-immigration and isolationist views present in todays politics, it is important to be reminded of the contribution of non-native Americans. Nicholas Dungan has written the definitive biography of one such non-native immigrant who spoke with an accent and was educated abroad. Albert Gallatin (1761-1849) left a lasting imprint on our nations history. However, Dungan finds that as a foreigner, his name has fallen into obscurity in the American psyche. In Gallatin: Americas Swiss Founding Father, Dungan masterfully retraces the life of man whose image or name is commonly not recognized. * Purepolitics.com *Dungans Book retraces in detail Gallatins family history in Geneva as well as his subsequent career in the United States, using his private correspondence to highlight his shifting perspectives on ongoing events. Published on the 250th anniversary of Gallatins birth, his biography is clearly designed a belated official tribute, providing a useful ground for any further scholarly research on the subject; it does moreover offer an interesting example of how modern representative regimes took shape from the constant confrontation of the different national traditions. -- Biancamaria Fontana * Times Literary Supplement *Dungan gives good reason to believe his label as Gallatin as 'America's Swiss founding father,' through his concise history of the period and convincing understanding of Gallatin's major role in the establishment of the United States as an independant and respected country. * St. Paul's School, Alumni Horae *At the close of his biography Gallatin, Americas Swiss Founding Father, Nicholas Dungan asks the rhetorical question: 'Was Gallatin a Great Man?' To which, anyone having read the book, would have to answer with an unequivocal and resounding Yes!... Dungans biography of Gallatin should not be missed. -- Martin * What Would Founding Fathers Think? *In this balanced and perceptive new life of Albert Gallatin, it is a delight to find that Nicholas Dungan gives ample attention to Gallatin’s later years as an intellectual and participant in the public life of New York City. -- Dr. Louise Mirrer,President and Chief Executive Officer, New-York Historical SocietyIn this elegant biography, Dungan charts the rise of Albert Gallatin from Congress to the Treasury to the world of diplomacy. Dungan convincingly makes the case that Gallatins crowning achievement was his central role in the delegation that negotiated the Treaty of Ghent, which brought an end to the War of 1812. Gallatin thus helped guide the United States to genuine independence and to the peace and prosperity enjoyed by the strengthening and expanding union. -- Charles A. Kupchan,professor of international relations at Georgetown University, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and author of How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable PeaceMany U.S. envoys to France have had distinguished careers in public service and the private sector, but none excelled Albert Gallatin in the breadth of his experience or the scope of his contribution to the United States. Nicholas Dungan gives Gallatin’s role as an outstanding diplomat its well-deserved emphasis in this fast-paced, in-depth biography of a great European-American. -- Walter J. P. Curley,United States Ambassador to France (1989-1993) and to Ireland (1975-1978), Honorary Chairman of the French-American Foundation“Dungan (former president, French-American Fdn.) provides a valuable service by writing a short, balanced overview of the life and career of one of the most important and most neglected leaders of the early American Republic... Dungan’s book makes excellent use of the Gallatin papers housed at the New-York Historical Society. * Library Journal *Table of ContentsForeword: Gallatin in Diplomacy, by Micheline Calmy-ReyForeword: Gallatin in Finance, by Philipp M. Hildebrand Acknowledgments Introduction: Getting to Know Gallatin1 A Son of Geneva, 1761-1780 2 American Beginnings, 1780-17933 The Senate and the House, 1793-1801 4 Jefferson's Secretary of the Treasury, 1801-1809 5 Madison's Secretary of the Treasury, 1809-1813 6 The Debut of a Diplomatist, 1813-1815 7 American Minister to France, 1816-1823 8 Searching for Stability, 1823-1829 9 The Capstones of a Career, 1830-1849 Conclusion: Gauging Gallatin's Greatness Notes A Note on Sources Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisJohn Brown Russwurm (1799-1851) played a pioneering role as an educator, abolitionist, editor, government official, emigrationist and colonizationist. He is the first African American graduate of Maine's Bowdoin College, and co-founder of "Freedom's Journal". This title presents an account of Russwurm's life.Trade Review"The discerning light that James focuses on Russwurm is a significant contribution to the literature of the antislavery movement" -- H. Shapiro * Choice Magazine *"In this clearly written and widely researched biography Winston James has brought back from unwarranted historical obscurity the life and work of the Pan-Africanist, John Brown Russwurm, a pioneer in the struggle for freedom and equality in the US and Africa in the first half of the nineteenth century." -- Richard Blackett,author of Building an Antislavery Wall: Black Americans in the Atlantic Abolitionist Movement, 1830-1860"This is the most authoritative scholarly introduction so far to the life of John Russwurm, that enigmatic founder of black nationalism, and the most accessible sampling of his works. Professor James has performed a service to the profession." -- Wilson J. Moses,author of The Golden Age of Black Nationalism, 1850-1925"Winston James sensitive, probing, and absorbing portrait of John Brown Russwurm restores this pivotal but little-known activist to the prominent status he deserves. Editor, educator, abolitionist, colonizationist, Pan-African polemicistRusswurm assumed all of these roles in a life that stretched from the Caribbean to Canada and America to Africa. James' insightful book shows how he moved from place to place, and cause to cause, with seeming ease. The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm will delight and please both scholars and students of the Black Atlantic for some time to come." -- Richard S. Newman,author of Freedoms Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding FathersTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments A Note on Quotations Part I Prologue 1 From Boy to Man 2 Freedom's Journal: Pleading Our Own Cause 3 Quitting America and Its Cost 4 "We Have Found a Haven": In the Land of His Fathers 5 Governor Russwurm: The Cape Palmas Years Epilogue: Russwurm in His Rightful Place Part II Editorial Note 1 Early Writings 2 Writings from Freedom's Journal Part A. Uplift, Abolitionism, and Opposition to Colonization To Our Patrons Part B. Our Views Are Materially Altered: Looking toward Liberia 3 Writings from Liberia Part A. First Impressions: Two Early Letters from Liberia Part B. Writings from the Liberia Herald Part C. Letters Home from Afar to a Brother Part D. Governor Russwurm: Departing from the Old and Beaten Paths Part E. Sometimes We Despond a Little: Some Candid and Private Thoughts on the Liberian Project Part F. Home from Home: A Visit to Maine and After Part G. "None in Your Employ Eat the Bread of Idleness in Africa": A Governor's Dispatches Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisRecounts the life story of one of the nineteenth century's most surprising and accomplished advocates for women's rights - Belva lockwood, who was fearless in confronting the male establishment, commanding the attention of presidents, members of Congress, influential writers, and everyday Americans.Trade Review"Norgren has written an engrossing and insightful book about Belva Lockwood, a woman who, through tenacity, drive and self worth, accomplished more in the 19th century than many modern women accomplish. Because Lockwood was known to few and most of her personal papers were destroyed after her death, Norgren has done an exemplary job of illuminating the life of this varied and accomplished woman." * The Law and Politics Book Review *"Long before Hillary Clinton, there was Belva Lockwood: two-time presidential hopeful, Lockwood campaigned in 1884 and 1888 on a platform of women's suffrage. In the first full-length biography of this feminist pioneer, legal historian Norgren has meticulously researched what little has remained of Lockwoods papers, most of which were destroyed after her death." * Publishers Weekly Annex *"An engaging account of Belva Lockwoods struggles and achievements as one of the first women to enter the legal profession in the United States in the late 19th century." * Canadian Journal of Law and Society *"Highly recommended." * Choice *"Many biographers would balk at the paucity of archival sources, but Norgren persisted. . . . In [Norgrenl;s] credible narrative, Lockwood emerges as a shrewd self-promoter, never hesitating to garner publicity for herself and her causes. . . . In eloquent detail, Norgren shows how Lockwood loved the law." * New York Sun *"Astonishingly, this is the first scholarly biography of 19th-century activist Belva Lockwood. Lawyer, lobbyist, wife, mother, and contemporary of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lockwood was among the most formidable of equal rights advocates. The first female lawyer admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the relentlessly ambitious Lockwood ran for the U.S. presidency in 1884 and 1888 on the Equal Rights Party ticket. Later she concentrated on her work for the Universal Peace Union and her Washington, D.C., legal practice while maintaining a demanding public-speaking schedule. Her life was never easy, as she constantly fought to surmount political and legal barriers and to support her family. Although few of Lockwood's papers have survived, Norgren has delivered an able and long overdue study of Lockwoods life, drawing on newspapers, magazines, organizational records, and the papers of Lockwood's contemporaries. Though the book emphasizes Lockwoods career, the inclusion of information on her family and friends gives added dimension. Highly recommended for both public and academic libraries; essential for womens history collections." * Library Journal, starred review *"For those interested in U.S. womens history or the nineteenth-century practice of law, Norgens work is a must." * Law and History Review *"Jill Norgrens study of Belva Lockwood (which comes with a graceful preface by Ruth Bader Ginsburg) is a very unusual book. . . . Norgren has the great discernment to see Lockwoods life as large and anticipatory rather than eccentric and half-realized. A legal historian of considerable skill, she ploughed through reams of records to construct an account of Lockwoods legal career. . . . The comparison [of Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi to] Belva Lockwood is illuminating, because it was Lockwoods instinct for opportunity that took her out of women's politics, with their intact principles, into the thick of things. . . . The biographies of these women will be composed of the workaday, disenchanted materials of political livesperseverance, competence, canniness, and, yes, a facility for the quick grabthat Belva Lockwood cultivated and prized." -- Christine Stansell * The New Republic *"Exceptionally well-researched. Norgrens contribution is to situate Lockwood among a generation of female activists. Norgren is successful in moving the woman who would be president to her proper standing as a pioneering lawyer who would change America." -- Jean Baker * American Historical Review *"In this thoroughly researched and beautifully written biography, Jill Norgren traces Belva Lockwoods dogged efforts to earn a living as a lawyer in Washington while caring for her daughter and becoming a leading advocate for womans suffrage and the peaceful arbitration of international disputes. Norgrens brilliant study makes clear why Lockwoodthe first woman to argue before the Supreme Court (1879) and run for President (1884 and 1888)belongs in the ranks of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Frances Willard" -- John M. Ferren,author of Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court: The Story of Justice Wiley Rutledge"Jill Norgren beautifully weaves the personal and political ordeals of Belva Lockwoods life into a compelling story that illuminates Lockwood's enduring contributions. This is a dramatic account of a pioneering woman whose life in the law still resonates in contemporary times." -- Joan Biskupic,author of Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most influenti"Jill Norgrens biography of Belva Lockwood is a gem. Not only does she describe the amazingly full life of an important woman now practically forgotten, but she takes us into the politics of the late-nineteenth century women's reform movement in a way few other authors have done. This is a must-read book." -- Melvin I. Urofsky,editor of the Journal of Supreme Court History"Jill Norgrens splendid biography of one of historys most astonishing pioneersfirst woman counsel before the Supreme Court, visionary for equal rights, international peace activist, Indian rights litigator, presidential candidateis provocative, challenging, galvanizing! Brilliantly researched, vividly written, and profoundly discerning. Everybody concerned about justice, human rights, the future of democracy, and womens power will rush to read, and assign, this important book." -- Blanche Wiesen Cook,author of Eleanor Roosevelt"Belva Lockwood lived a life of firsts as a practicing lawyer at a time when women were rare in any profession. She was the first woman admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court and twice ran for President of the United States. Jill Norgren captures the story of this forgotten heroine in a biography as fast paced and interesting as the life Lockwood led." -- Barbara Babcock,Judge John Crown Professor of Law, Emerita, Stanford University, and author of Clara Shortridge Foltz: Constitution Maker"Norgren eloquently and succinctly educates the reader on the story of the first woman to ever be allowed to argue before the United States Supreme Court, as well as the first woman to ever launch two full scale bids for this countrys presidency . . . Norgrens writing is engaging and her narrative is accessible yet rich with fact." * Feminist Review *"Jill Norgren has written a fascinating biography of one of the forgotten icons of nineteenth century feminism. Thanks to Norgren, [Lockwood] will become a role model for current and future women politicians." * Foreword Magazine *Table of ContentsForeword by Justice Ruth Bader GinsburgPrologue and Acknowledgments 1 Early a Widow2 In Search of a New Identity 3 Apprenticeship 4 Becoming a Lawyer 5 Notorious Ladies 6 A Tougher Fight 7 Woman Lawyer 8 The Practice of Law 9 Lady Lobbyist10 Lockwood for President11 Life on the Platform 12 Lay Down Your Arms! 13 The Power of Association 14 Pushing for Place 15 AWorld's Fair and a Million-Dollar Case 16 Aging Soldiers of Cause Epilogue Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThe Song Index features over 150,000 citations that lead users to over 2,100 song books spanning more than a century, from the 1880s to the 1990s. The songs cited represent a multitude of musical practices, cultures, and traditions, ranging from ehtnic to regional, from foreign to American, representing every type of song: popular, folk, children''s, political, comic, advertising, protest, patriotic, military, and classical, as well as hymns, spirituals, ballads, arias, choral symphonies, and other larger works. This comprehensive volume also includes a bibliography of the books indexed; an index of sources from which the songs originated; and an alphabetical composer index.Trade Review"Public librarians will kill for a reference book like Ellen Luchinsky's The Song Index of the Enoch Pratt FreeLibrary. The Song Index will prove highly useful to librarians and patrons trying to locate favorite songs." -- Against the Grain"A welcome addition to the available print indexes to song collections. Libraries of all types will want to acquire a copy and benefit from the breadth and depth of indexing done by the Pratt Library's staff for nearly a century. The broad range of collections indexed make it an essential purchase." -- ane Gottlieb, Head Librarian, The Juilliard School"Anyone who has ever worked in a public library knows the frustration of trying to fill the enormous demand on the part of the public for songs. This publication of the renowned song index from the Enoch Pratt Free Library will go a long way toward making many librarians' lives much easier." -- Susan T. Sommer, The New York Public LibraryTable of ContentsIntroduction, Acknowledgements, How to Use This Book, The Bibliography, The Song Index, The Composers, The Sources (Operas, Musicals, Movies and Other Sources of Songs)

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of this biography of humanitarian Albert Schweitzer has been updated to include documents discovered since the work was originally written. These include letters between Schweitzer and Helene Bresslau from the ten years before their marriage.Trade ReviewJames Brabazon is an independent writer/producer. This second edition of his acclaimed biography includes previously uncovered material. A major addition makes use of the letters sent between Schweitzer and Helene Bresslau, written during the ten years before their marriage. They throw new light on Schweitzer's personality and his decision to go to Africa. A second major addition makes use of recently revealed documents from the State Department regarding Schweitzer's struggle to stop H-bomb tests, a battle fought with the United States Atomic Energy Commission. Brabazon, an independent writer and film producer, updates his biography of the humanitarian and physician Albert Schweitzer with new and profoundly revealing letters between him and Helene Bresslau, whom he married after a ten-year correspondence. The letters reveal an intensely secret and unusual relationship, as well as facets of Schweitzer's personality and thinking that he took great trouble to hide from the world. New documents from the State Department regarding his battle with the US Atomic Energy Commission to stop H-bomb tests are also discussed.

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Book Synopsis1943: Polish underground fighter John Wiernicki is captured and beaten by the Gestapo, then shipped to Auschwitz. In this memoir, Wiernicki, a Gentile, details "life" in the infamous death camp, and his battle to survive, physically and morally, in the face of utter evil.Trade ReviewIn this simple but harrowing memoir, Wiernicki recounts his involvement with the Polish underground and his subsequent imprisonment in Nazi labor and death camps. What emerges is a raw expose of the evil perpetrated against millions. Wiernicki, a Polish partisan, was captured by the Gestapo in 1943 and sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. From there he was sent to Buchenwald, and he escaped during a death march in April 1945 as the Germans forced 2,000 prisoners to flee ahead of advancing Allied troops. The author begins his memoir with a brief description of his prewar years growing up in the city of Lwow, his summer vacations, and his year at the military academy of Lwow, where he had planned to spend the next four years. He then writes of his life as a resistance fighter before being captured. Wiernicki, a gentile, recounts the killing of Jews in Auschwitz-Birkenau and describes his encounters with Josef Mengele and Heinz Thilo, the infamous SS doctors who conducted medical experiments on prisoners. Wiernicki's memoir, which includes 17 black-and-white photographs, is a haunting and intimate account of the Holocaust, written with an almost unbearable clarity.

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Book SynopsisA rare and entertaining look at Felicity Ashbee's experiences as a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during World War II.Trade ReviewFelicity's story weaves a rich tapestry, touching on many different aspects of the war experience, and provides a personal account of the mixed fortunes of those women who sought to make their way in a supremely male-oriented environment.- Stephen Walton, senior curator, Imperial War Museum, UK

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Book SynopsisTo understand how Albert Einstein's pacifist and internationalist thought matured from a youthful inclination to pragmatic initiatives and savvy insights, Holmes gives readers access to Einstein in his own words. Through his private writings, she shows how Einstein's thoughts in response to the war evolved from horrified disbelief, to ironic alienation, to a kind of bleak endurance.

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Book SynopsisStephen Crane was a prodigious American author whose bohemian ways seemed to contradict his conscientious upbringing. Drawing on documents by Crane's father, mother and sister, this text shows how their vitality and versatility galvanized Crane's imagination and spurred his literary career.

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Book SynopsisEmma Curtis, feminist and religious entrepreneur, led a life of extraordinary diversity and achievement. This work salutes her life as it explores the route by which she melded spiritual healing, metaphysical idealism, and exotic philosophies into multiple careers of unsurpassed dynamic.

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Book SynopsisWith its wide-ranging introduction, detailed notes, and eye-catching maps, this book retrieves the remarkable travel accounts of Kathleen M. Murphy from obscurity and presents them to a new generation of readers interested in travel and adventure.

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Book SynopsisIn this first biography of Johnny Otis, George Lipsitz tells the largely unknown story of a towering figure in the history of African American music and culture who was, by his own description, “black by persuasion.” This chronicle of a life rich in both incident and inspiration also explores the complicated nature of race relations in twentieth-century America.Trade Review"Johnny Otis—he’s the coolest! A true pioneer of the music I love." —Aaron Neville"We are lucky to have Johnny Otis, as the world is short on smart, soulful, funny, gifted, walk-the-walk folk. Bless his heart." —Joan Baez"Johnny Otis is one of the most important figures in the history of R&B and rock and roll. Through mentoring and showcasing so many brilliant stars in his legendary live revues and incredible bands; his contributions as writer, player, and producer of so many seminal recordings; and his decades of hosting his beloved West Coast radio show, his legacy as professor emeritus of R&B will remain forever intact." —Bonnie RaittTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: There’s a Riot Goin’ On1. Central Avenue Breakdown2. Double Crossing Blues3. Willie and the Hand Jive4. Listen to the Lambs5. All Night Long6. Play Misty for Me7. The Watts Breakaway8. Midnight at the BarrelhouseAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis is the memoir of Zeke Caligiuri, who grew up in South Minneapolis in the 1990s when the city was dubbed "Murderapolis." Currently in prison, Zeke's story is a clear-eyed account of how he got from there to here, how a boy who had every hope went from dreaming of freedom to losing it, along with nearly everything and everyone he loved.Trade Review“An intimate, searing, and important document that makes no excuses for its subject’s life-choices and is all the more powerful for its honesty.”—Joyce Carol Oates "This Is Where I Am is a fabulous book that maps out the real lives of the city and the neighborhoods, of real hopes that die and real dreams that resurrect. For every hour of joy or sorrow the common citizen experiences, Zeke Caligiuri aptly magnifies that same hour into an eternity of lives deeply lived and feared and loved and lost. Every school, judge, counselor, and policeman ought to read this book. Read it. Read it again. Read it until you understand that how we make and shape our society is our responsibility—all of ours."—Jimmy Santiago Baca, author of Singing at the Gates "Zeke Caligiuri's debut memoir, This Is Where I Am, soulfully evokes his childhood playgrounds and present-day prison cells—and situates him as a powerful new voice in contemporary literature, a voice that is at once literary and streetwise, with an ice-cold restraint that blisters the heart."—Matt Burgess, author of Uncle Janice and Dogfight, A Love Story"Caligiuri demonstrates a willingness and ability to look back and share his experiences without judgment or ego, which makes for a fascinating and moving account of one man’s incarceration and life."—Booklist"Born and raised in the Powderhorn neighborhood, Caligiuri follows an all-too-familiar downward spiral: gang-banger friends + drugs + alcohol + guns = jail time. What is unexpected is the poetic curiosity Caligiuri exhibits in This Is Where I Am."—City Pages"He’s brutally honest. In raw yet lyrical language, he attempts to explain how a once promising life went wrong."—Star TribuneTable of ContentsContents Prologue I. The Beginning 1. The Dodge Duster 2. An Orphan at Christmas 3. Granny in a Yellow Dress 4. On Pilgrimage 5. Monsters and Floral Print Skirts 6. Marching on the Third Precinct II. Life, What I Would Be 7. Prayer and Resurrection 8. The Block Club 9. Fathers and Sons, Men and Boys 10. The Class of 1996 11. The First Strike 12. Snapshots of Me and Her in New York 13. A House, A Neighborhood 14. From September to September III. Death, Putting it Back Together 15. The Last Visit from the Girl in the Willow Tree 16. Walking into the Rest of My Life 17. The Only One Not There 18. Just Pictures 19. No Man’s Land 20. A Homecoming 21. Bombs Epilogue: This is Where I Am Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisSara Haardt's character sketches, short stories and essays were published regularly in the leading literary and popular magazines of the 1920s and 1930s. This volume collects a selection of her fiction and non-fiction, seeking to demonstrate her place in the pantheon of southern letters.

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Trade ReviewA piece of American history. It is a significant era in the history of broadcasting. - The Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media

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Book SynopsisOffers an uncommon and intimate account of the lives of two conscientious objectors. In 2013 Suzanne Kesler Rumsey discovered hundreds of letters exchanged between her late grandparents. What is unusual about their story is that Ben Kesler was not writing from a theater of war. Instead, as a conscientious objector.Trade Review"Blessed Are the Peacemakers provides an excellent example of how historical scholarship in rhetoric and composition, as well as in other fields, can be made stronger-meaning more self-aware and more engaging-by emphasizing and even prioritizing the narrative and personal/familial frameworks that structure and support that scholarship." - Wendy Sharer, author of Vote and Voice: Women's Organizations and Political Literacy, 1915-1930"Rumsey does an admirable job weaving together family history and public history, the story of two lives, a couple, as revealed via their love letters during a tumultuous time, WWII. Emphasizing the challenges and conditions faced by Conscientious Objectors (CO), especially those affiliated with the major Peace Churches. A well-researched, engaging project that offers new insights into the lives, work, and literate activities of COs during WWII." - Gesa Kirsch, author of Feminist Rhetorical Practices: New Horizons for Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy StudiesTable of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Conduit and Platform Chapter 2. Beginnings (Early Life) Chapter 3. Conscription, Nonresistance, and Civilian Public Service Chapter 4. Leaving and Nesting Chapter 5. Ben's Work and Camp Life at Sideling Hill Chapter 6. Miriam's Story-the First Six Months Chapter 7. Finances and Interpersonal Conflicts Chapter 8. The Holidays Chapter 9. Transition to Rhode Island Chapter 10. Archives, Family History, and the Personal Chapter 11. Conditions of the State Hospital in 1943 Chapter 12. Daily Life at the State Hospital Chapter 13. Finances and More Conflicts Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection of reflective essays - all exploring themes of artistic self-discovery and regional awareness - showcases 19 nationally known writers who have roots in Alabama, recalling how their formative years in Alabama shaped them as people and as writers.

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Book SynopsisEvery place I visited, says Hudson Strode, was like a surprise package to be opened, and I untied the strings with high expectations. Reading The Eleventh House: Memoirs is like going to a party of smartly dressed guests. Strode starts his foreign travels in Sorrento with Dante's descendant Count Dante Serego-Alighieri as his guide. He takes a Russian cattle boat to Tunisia and lunches with the lovely Countess de Brazza. Then he embarks on a whirlwind tour of South America and writes South by Thunderbird. Later, in England, he visits Rebecca West at her country home and strikes up a warm friendship with Lady Astor. In Denmark his hostess is Isak Dinesen. In Finland he meets Jan Sibelius. Such are the times of Hudson Strode. With his keen eye for settings, with candor, energy, and curiosity, Strode sees his famous friends closely and wholly. His is a unique account. The Eleventh House is the story of a rewarding and fascinating life told by a man who remembers it all with affeTrade ReviewHudson Strode with F. Scott Fitzgerald: His ideal, he said, was to live the life of a hedonist. He argued that pleasure is the sole or chief good in life and that moral duty is fulfilled in the gratification of pleasure-seeking instincts. “We shall get all the joy out of life we can,” he said. “And then when I reach thirty-five I shall do away with myself. There is no sense in growing old.”Hudson Strode with Ernest Hemingway: I rose to go, wishing him luck on Winner Take Nothing. “What the artist must do,” he said, “is to capture the thing on the printed page so truly that the magnification will endure. That is the difference between journalism and literature. There is really very little literature.”|Hudson Strode with Isak Dinesen: “Whenever I get out of touch with humanity,” she said with a merry look in her eyes, “I get on my bike and ride in the throng . . . . It makes all men brothers . . . . There is a kind of snobbish class distinction among motorcars, but with bicycles the model counts for nothing, nor the age, nor even the sex.”Hudson Strode with H. G. Wells: “Strode,” he said in his squeaky voice, “I may never see you again, but I want you to remember carefully the words I want incised on my tombstone: ‘You damn fools, I told you so!’ And with an exclamation mark, please.”

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Book SynopsisTraces in engrossing detail one of the most fascinating partnerships in the history of American education - that between Maria Montessori and S.S. McClure, from their first meeting in 1910 until their final acrimonious dispute in 1915.Trade Review“Exploring information heretofore overlooked, the work studies how Montessori education was influenced by the relationship between S. S. McClure and Maria Montessori, as well as what might have been had the two not experienced their dispute regarding control of the process and resultant feud.” - CHOICE“Bringing Montessori to America is a fascinating book about Maria Montessori and S. S. McClure, the man who brought her to America. This work reads like a novel. There is intrigue, deception, great highs and very low lows in the relationship befitting a great drama.” - Vitae Scholasticae, 2016“Bringing Montessori to America is one of the first and perhaps only treatments of the relationship between S. S. McClure and Maria Montessori—a relationship that, had it not gone awry, could have institutionalized Montessori’s promising ‘auto-education’ theory in the United States. This study should be a staple and case study for communications departments across the United States.” - Karen L. Riley, author of Schools Behind Barbed Wire: The Untold Story of Wartime Internment and the Children of Arrested Enemy Aliens“The Guteks provide a unique view of McClure’s and Montessori’s power struggle over how to present Montessori’s method, leading to a better understanding of the split between the American Montessori Society and the Association Montessori Internationale. Scholarly without being dense, this engaging book will appeal to a wide range of readers.” - Martha May Tevis, professor, Department of Education, University of Texas–Pan American

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Book SynopsisIn this landmark biography, Canter Brown Jr. makes evident the extent of Henry Bradley Plant's influences throughout North, Central, and South America as well as his role in the emergence of integrated transportation and a national tourism system. Brown brings this important but understudied figure in American history to the foreground.Trade ReviewHenry Bradley Plant explores in enlightening and engaging detail its protagonist's complex blend of driving work ethic, relentless ambition, shameless networking, repeated good luck, and well-timed bribery and corporate scheming, which combined to transform the poor, Connecticut widow's son into a rich transportation titan with international reach and the trust of presidents. The author effectively mines diplomatic, borderlands, business, transportation, communications and even religious history and developments throughout Plant's long life across most of the nineteenth century to tell the subject's story and validate his importance." - Daniel R. Weinfeld, author of The Jackson County War: Reconstruction and Resistance in Post-Civil War FloridaTable of Contents List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Formative Years: 1819 to 1834 2. New Haven: 1834 to 1844 3. Recovery: 1844 to 1854 4. Southern Ways: 1854 to 1859 5. Unwanted Conflict: 1859 to 1863 6. A Work of Reconstruction: 1863 to 1868 7. Flush Times: 1868 to 1873 8. The Panic: 1873 to 1878 9. Florida and the Pearl of the Antilles: 1878 to 1882 10. Tampa: 1882 to 1886 11. Transportation and Tourism: 1886 to 1889 12. Unanticipated Outcomes: 1889 to 1893 13. In the Midst of Calamity: 1893 to 1896 14. War and Peace: 1896 to 1899 Afterword: The Ephemeral Nature of Legacies Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisVitaly Leonidovich Katayev was an eyewitness to the arms race accelerating at an absurd and inexplicable pace. His perspective was from inside the Soviet system, in an office that was devoted to analysis of arms control and defence matters. His recollections in this book offer an extraordinary window into Soviet decisions and calculations.

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Book SynopsisVitaly Leonidovich Katayev was an eyewitness to history as he saw the arms race accelerating at an absurd and inexplicable pace, and he understood why. His perspective was from inside the Soviet system. His recollections in this book offer an extraordinary window into Soviet decisions and calculations.

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Book SynopsisCovering an eventful period in Herbert Hoover's careerand, more specifically, his life as a political pugilist from 1933 to 1955this previously unknown memoir was composed and revised by the 31st president during the 1940s and 1950sand then, surprisingly, set aside. This work recounts Hoover's family life after March 4, 1933, his myriad philanthropic interests, and, most of all, his unrelenting crusade against collectivism in American life. Aside from its often feisty account of Hoover's political activities during the Roosevelt and Truman eras, and its window on Hoover's private life and campaigns for good causes, The Crusade Years invites readers to reflect on the factors that made his extraordinarily fruitful postpresidential years possible. The pages of this memoir recount the story of Hoover's later life, his abiding political philosophy, and his vision of the nation that gave him the opportunity for service. This is, in short, a remarkable saga told in the former president's own

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Book SynopsisCharts the stages of Martin Luther King's philosophical and political growth, examining his opposition to the Vietnam War, his response to Black Power, and his growing concern for economic justice. Fairclough rounds out his portrait with an assessment of King's legacy to America and his continuing relevance to the struggle for freedom and equality.Trade ReviewIntended for the student or general reader who wants a brief introduction to King's life, it is thoughtful, well-informed, and highly readable" —Mississippi Quarterly"A sound alternative . . . for those high school and college teachers who hesitate at assigning something approaching a thousand pages but nonetheless want their students to understand King." —Georgia Historical Quarterly

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Book SynopsisFrom McCullers' birth in Columbus, Georgia in 1917 to her death in upstate New York in 1967, this book covers every significant event in and aspect of, the writer's life: her rise as a young literary sensation; her eccentricities and entanglements; her debilitating illnesses; and her travels.

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Book SynopsisA powerful underdog story, Soaring delivers practical leadership advice, business lessons, and tips for success mined from the real-life strategies of Lee Rhyant’s forty years as a corporate leader.

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Book SynopsisHow have Black women fostered belonging in higher education institutions that have persisted in marginalizing them? Focusing on the career of Lucy Diggs Slowe, this book examines how her philosophy of ‘living more abundantly’ envisioned educational access and institutionalized campus thriving for Black college women.

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Book SynopsisProvides an indispensable reassessment of a critically neglected figure. Looking beyond the poetry she published during the Harlem Renaissance, Noelle Morrissette provides a new critical lens for interpreting Spencer’s expansive life and imagination through her archives, giving particular focus to her manuscripts authored from 1940 to 1975.

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Book SynopsisBorn into a Victorian Danish family, Karen Christentze Dinesen married her second cousin, a high-spirited and philandering baron, and moved to Kenya where she ran a coffee plantation, painted, and wrote.

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Book SynopsisDivine Expectations presents the account of Clorinda Minor, a charismatic American Christian woman whose belief in the Second Coming prompted her to leave a comfortable life in Philadelphia in 1851 and take up agriculture in Palestine.

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Book SynopsisIn this concise biography, Scully shows us how the life of Nobel Peace Prize winner and two-time Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf speaks to many of the key themes of the twenty-first century.Trade Review“A clear and concise introduction to the woman and to the domestic and international politics that have shaped her personally and professionally.”“In scarcely 100 short pages, this excellent addition to the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series offers a valuable perspective on Liberia’s outgoing President, and Africa’s first elected female Head of State.” * LSE Blog (London School of Economics) *

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Book SynopsisWith Alexander Robey Shepherd, John P. Richardson gives us the first full-length biography of his subject, who as Washington, D.C.’s, public works czar (1871–74) built the infrastructure of the nation’s capital in a few frenetic years after the Civil War.Trade Review“John Richardson's lucid biography of the central figure in Washington’s municipal history before the 1970s will benefit Washingtonians but also historians of all American cities. Through painstaking research, Richardson reveals common themes in the two seemingly disconnected segments of Shepherd’s storied career: as the visionary but imperious public works official who made Washington a modern city in the 1870s, and then as the imperialistic operator of American-owned mines in Díaz-era Mexico.”“This fascinating study of Shepherd—a kind of proto-Robert Moses—belongs on any bookshelf devoted to the evolution of the American cityscape. The strength of Richardson’s research and writing is in the care and balance he brings to the tale. Washington, D.C., comes alive here, and so does Shepherd: sometimes hero and sometimes villain, he is always compelling and utterly human.”“With skill, nuance, and the mining of primary sources, John Richardson brings visionary and/or corrupt political hack Alexander ‘Boss’ Shepherd, the remarkable ‘New Washington,’ and the heady early years of the Gilded Age to life.”“The controversy surrounding Shepherd’s legacy can be reduced to a single question: Do the ends justify the means? Richardson concludes that the physical development that Washington experienced during Shepherd’s leadership of the Board of Public Works did indeed justify the exorbitant financial costs, the questionable business practices, and the loss of self-government.…It is a tribute to Richardson’s careful research and balanced narrative that many readers may disagree with his assessments of this fascinating but flawed man.” * Washington History *“Shepherd’s story, told [here] with skill and confidence, is at once the story of a great American character, with all his great achievements—bold, visionary, pragmatic, entrepreneurial; and notable flaws.… It’s also the story of a great and complex American city’s recovery from the Civil War, growth in the industrial age, and implementation of one of the world’s greatest urban plans. In short, it’s how Washington became a city.” * From the foreword by Tony Williams, mayor of Washington, D.C., 1999–2007 *

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Book SynopsisWith Alexander Robey Shepherd, John P. Richardson gives us the first full-length biography of his subject, who as Washington, D.C.’s, public works czar (1871–74) built the infrastructure of the nation’s capital in a few frenetic years after the Civil War.Trade Review“John Richardson's lucid biography of the central figure in Washington’s municipal history before the 1970s will benefit Washingtonians but also historians of all American cities. Through painstaking research, Richardson reveals common themes in the two seemingly disconnected segments of Shepherd’s storied career: as the visionary but imperious public works official who made Washington a modern city in the 1870s, and then as the imperialistic operator of American-owned mines in Díaz-era Mexico.”“This fascinating study of Shepherd—a kind of proto-Robert Moses—belongs on any bookshelf devoted to the evolution of the American cityscape. The strength of Richardson’s research and writing is in the care and balance he brings to the tale. Washington, D.C., comes alive here, and so does Shepherd: sometimes hero and sometimes villain, he is always compelling and utterly human.”“With skill, nuance, and the mining of primary sources, John Richardson brings visionary and/or corrupt political hack Alexander ‘Boss’ Shepherd, the remarkable ‘New Washington,’ and the heady early years of the Gilded Age to life.”“The controversy surrounding Shepherd’s legacy can be reduced to a single question: Do the ends justify the means? Richardson concludes that the physical development that Washington experienced during Shepherd’s leadership of the Board of Public Works did indeed justify the exorbitant financial costs, the questionable business practices, and the loss of self-government.…It is a tribute to Richardson’s careful research and balanced narrative that many readers may disagree with his assessments of this fascinating but flawed man.” * Washington History *“Shepherd’s story, told [here] with skill and confidence, is at once the story of a great American character, with all his great achievements—bold, visionary, pragmatic, entrepreneurial; and notable flaws.… It’s also the story of a great and complex American city’s recovery from the Civil War, growth in the industrial age, and implementation of one of the world’s greatest urban plans. In short, it’s how Washington became a city.” * From the foreword by Tony Williams, mayor of Washington, D.C., 1999–2007 *

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