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Duke University Press Brilliant Imperfection
Book SynopsisDrawing on memoir, history, and theory, Eli Clare complicates the understanding of cure, seeing it as an ideology that serves contradictory purposes—from saving lives to social control—while critiquing cure rhetoric and the drive to cure disabled people through an insistence of the value of disability.Trade Review"Vermont has many national treasures living quietly among us, and one of them is Addison County resident Eli Clare. His latest book, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure, is revelatory, a clarion call for changing the medicalized disability narrative of defective brokenness." -- John Killacky * Vermont Public Radio *"Brilliant Imperfection is a clarion call, for changing the medicalized disability narrative, that of 'defective brokenness,' that often prevails in U.S. healthcare.... [It] provides empowering answers and guidance-contributing significantly to the evolving discourse on gender, queer, and disability studies." -- John R. Killacky * Gay & Lesbian Review *"Brilliant Imperfection is an honest, moving, and deeply thoughtful engagement with some of the most difficult and significant questions in disability, queer, and cultural studies. . . . Brilliant Imperfection is sure to become required reading for scholars of disability and queer studies, revealing the multiple, often contradictory meanings and consequences of cure and the importance of work for social justice." -- Laurel Daen * H-Disability, H-Net Reviews *"Brilliant Imperfection is powerfully intersectional in its approach to body-mind difference: disability, as an identity, process, and means of interacting with the world, cannot be disentangled from other facets of identity like race, sexuality, class, and gender." -- Travis Lau * Wordgathering *"This book will quickly become a classic, cited for Clare's careful analogies that examine cure through the notion of ecosystem restoration; his harsh critique of 'case files' and the work that scholars and artists do with them; and his deeply-nuanced exploration of the shame, grief, loss, and yearning in relation to bodymind difference. Brilliant Imperfection is beautifully written, with the insight and poetic clarity that readers have come to expect from Clare." -- Ryan Cartwright * Disability Studies Quarterly *"Clare’s Brilliant Imperfection provides a well-researched, thoroughly thought-out project that grapples with multiple relevant discourses surrounding disability and PwDs. In highlighting historical, personal, and anecdotal evidence, Clare’s text is an articulate, poignant narrative – a mosaic of stories, histories and experiences – that invites much debate and analysis." -- Heather Lacey * Journal of Gender Studies *"Brilliant Imperfection is a provocation—one that spotlights how crucial disability studies continues to be, particularly as scholars, activists, and artists make room for more nuanced conversations about rehabilitation, cure, and diagnosis." -- Julie Passanante Elman * Feminist Formations *"As lawmakers present some lives as worth less than others, we need voices like Clare’s: the voices of those who see worth in the most devalued lives but who also recognize that a simple critique of medical technology is inadequate when so many people around the world desperately need access to that technology. Brilliant Imperfection is therefore timely and necessary for our current political moment—and it will prove a critical resource as we seek to create a better world." -- Julie Avril Minich * QED *“Accessible and poetic. Brilliant Imperfection will be valuable to students in introductory medical anthropology courses as well as anthropology courses on the body and human–nature interactions.” -- Michele Friedner * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"[Brilliant Imperfection] wasn’t a how-to on overcoming grief and injury. It was permission to be who the accident made me: a disabled dyke. It was a permission to rage against the abelist and lesbiphobic shame I’d internalized. Clare was the only person who told me my worth was not dependent on my ability to get better or to disappear my pain. I cried as I read and re-read." -- Sara Youngblood Gregory * Vice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction: Writing a Mosaic xv A Note on Reading This Book: Thinking about Trigger Warnings xix Brilliant Imperfection: White Pines 1 1. Ideology of Cure 7 Brilliant Imperfection: Twitches and Tremors 19 2. Violence of Cure 21 Brilliant Imperfection: Maples 33 3. In Tandem with Cure 37 Brlliant Imperfection: Stone 49 4. Nuances of Cure 51 Brilliant Imperfection: Shells 65 5. Structure of Cure 67 Brilliant Imperfection: Hermit Crabs 81 6. How Cure Works 83 Brilliant Imperfection: Rolling 99 7. At the Center of Cure 101 Brilliant Imperfection: Myrtle 125 8. Moving Through Cure 127 Brilliant Imperfection: Drag Queen 147 9. Impacts fo Cure 149 Brilliant Imperfection: Survival Notes 169 10. Promise of Cure 171 Brilliant Imperfection: Cycling 189 Notes 191 Bibliography 201 Index 209
£72.25
Duke University Press Brilliant Imperfection
Book SynopsisDrawing on memoir, history, and theory, Eli Clare complicates the understanding of cure, seeing it as an ideology that serves contradictory purposesfrom saving lives to social controlwhile critiquing cure rhetoric and the drive to cure disabled people through an insistence of the value of disability.Trade Review"Vermont has many national treasures living quietly among us, and one of them is Addison County resident Eli Clare. His latest book, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure, is revelatory, a clarion call for changing the medicalized disability narrative of defective brokenness." -- John Killacky * Vermont Public Radio *"Brilliant Imperfection is a clarion call, for changing the medicalized disability narrative, that of 'defective brokenness,' that often prevails in U.S. healthcare.... [It] provides empowering answers and guidance-contributing significantly to the evolving discourse on gender, queer, and disability studies." -- John R. Killacky * Gay & Lesbian Review *"Brilliant Imperfection is an honest, moving, and deeply thoughtful engagement with some of the most difficult and significant questions in disability, queer, and cultural studies. . . . Brilliant Imperfection is sure to become required reading for scholars of disability and queer studies, revealing the multiple, often contradictory meanings and consequences of cure and the importance of work for social justice." -- Laurel Daen * H-Disability, H-Net Reviews *"Brilliant Imperfection is powerfully intersectional in its approach to body-mind difference: disability, as an identity, process, and means of interacting with the world, cannot be disentangled from other facets of identity like race, sexuality, class, and gender." -- Travis Lau * Wordgathering *"This book will quickly become a classic, cited for Clare's careful analogies that examine cure through the notion of ecosystem restoration; his harsh critique of 'case files' and the work that scholars and artists do with them; and his deeply-nuanced exploration of the shame, grief, loss, and yearning in relation to bodymind difference. Brilliant Imperfection is beautifully written, with the insight and poetic clarity that readers have come to expect from Clare." -- Ryan Cartwright * Disability Studies Quarterly *"Clare’s Brilliant Imperfection provides a well-researched, thoroughly thought-out project that grapples with multiple relevant discourses surrounding disability and PwDs. In highlighting historical, personal, and anecdotal evidence, Clare’s text is an articulate, poignant narrative – a mosaic of stories, histories and experiences – that invites much debate and analysis." -- Heather Lacey * Journal of Gender Studies *"Brilliant Imperfection is a provocation—one that spotlights how crucial disability studies continues to be, particularly as scholars, activists, and artists make room for more nuanced conversations about rehabilitation, cure, and diagnosis." -- Julie Passanante Elman * Feminist Formations *"As lawmakers present some lives as worth less than others, we need voices like Clare’s: the voices of those who see worth in the most devalued lives but who also recognize that a simple critique of medical technology is inadequate when so many people around the world desperately need access to that technology. Brilliant Imperfection is therefore timely and necessary for our current political moment—and it will prove a critical resource as we seek to create a better world." -- Julie Avril Minich * QED *“Accessible and poetic. Brilliant Imperfection will be valuable to students in introductory medical anthropology courses as well as anthropology courses on the body and human–nature interactions.” -- Michele Friedner * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"[Brilliant Imperfection] wasn’t a how-to on overcoming grief and injury. It was permission to be who the accident made me: a disabled dyke. It was a permission to rage against the abelist and lesbiphobic shame I’d internalized. Clare was the only person who told me my worth was not dependent on my ability to get better or to disappear my pain. I cried as I read and re-read." -- Sara Youngblood Gregory * Vice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction: Writing a Mosaic xv A Note on Reading This Book: Thinking about Trigger Warnings xix Brilliant Imperfection: White Pines 1 1. Ideology of Cure 7 Brilliant Imperfection: Twitches and Tremors 19 2. Violence of Cure 21 Brilliant Imperfection: Maples 33 3. In Tandem with Cure 37 Brlliant Imperfection: Stone 49 4. Nuances of Cure 51 Brilliant Imperfection: Shells 65 5. Structure of Cure 67 Brilliant Imperfection: Hermit Crabs 81 6. How Cure Works 83 Brilliant Imperfection: Rolling 99 7. At the Center of Cure 101 Brilliant Imperfection: Myrtle 125 8. Moving Through Cure 127 Brilliant Imperfection: Drag Queen 147 9. Impacts fo Cure 149 Brilliant Imperfection: Survival Notes 169 10. Promise of Cure 171 Brilliant Imperfection: Cycling 189 Notes 191 Bibliography 201 Index 209
£17.99
Duke University Press The Communist and the Communists Daughter
Book SynopsisIn this poignant memoir Jane Lazarre tells the fascinating history of her father Bill, a radical activist who, as part of his tireless efforts to create a better world for his family, held leadership positions in the American Communist Party, fought in the Spanish Civil War, and organized labor unions.Trade Review"Reflective and intelligent, her narrative not only chronicles the life of a complex man; it also celebrates the power of memory and love. A poignantly lyrical memoir of family and politics." * Kirkus Reviews *"The Communist and the Communist’s Daughter tells the story of a family, of the struggle between old and new homelands, and of a man trying to balance his idealism with a reality that falls short of it." -- Jeff Fleischer * Foreword Reviews *"[A] collection of materials, insights, incidents, and imagery formed into a brilliant whole by Jane Lazarre's skill and patience. It ought to be a classic of twentieth century American life." -- Meredith Sue Willis * Books for Readers *"This is a memoir rich in intelligent reflection of an aspect of US political history that receives little airing. It's an elegantly written and moving account." -- John Green * Morning Star *"Jane Lazare has written a fascinating, intensely personal book about history, family, and the Communist Party in the United States." -- Esther Cohen * Monthly Review *"Making an account of one's self through memoir is hard enough, why would anyone want to tackle combining their own with that of another's? Lazarre does so to pay tribute to her father, to show herself and the world his noble intentions even though he was a flawed human being, as we all are. Ultimately, she has learned through the writing, he is so much a part of her, and she a part of him, whether that's in their living or their passing on." -- Tomie Anne Bitton * American Book Review *"This is one of those books that deserves many audiences. And for that I am grateful, as I believe its appeal, like that of Lazarre’s earlier memoirs, makes an important contribution to understanding aspects of American history and social consciousness that are not explored nearly enough." -- Emily E. LB. Twarog * Labor *Table of ContentsAuthor's Note ix Acknowledgments xi Prologue 1 Part I. Beginnings Chapter 1 11 Chapter 2 18 Part II. An American Chapter 3 27 Chapter 4 34 Part III. Spain Chapter 5 55 Chapter 6 58 Chapter 7 60 Chapter 8 74 Chapter 9 77 Part IV. A Bad Wind Chapter 10 95 Chapter 11 101 Chapter 12 105 Chapter 13 110 Chapter 14 122 Chapter 15 125 Part V. The Un-Americans Chapter 16 131 Chapter 17 138 Chapter 18 150 Part VI. The Mutilated World Chapter 19 161 Chapter 20 172 Part VII. Endings Chapter 21 189 Chapter 22 196 Chapter 23 202 Epilogue 205 Notes 211
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Fordham University Press A Scholars Tale
Book SynopsisDescribes author's early education, uncanny sense of vocation, and development as a literary scholar and cultural critic. This title looks back at how author's career who was influenced by his experience, at the age of nine, of being a refugee from Nazi Germany in the Kinder transport.Trade Review"[Hartman] has written a rather different book: the record of a stellar career as a scholar, critic, and teacher that spans decades of changes in the academy to be sure, but one which insists on the primacy of the intellectual life." -Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature "Long before TV reality shows, Hartman questioned the show of reality." -The Wordsworth Circle "The journey detailed here is at once intensely personal and curiously remote." -American Book Review "Casting a critical backward glance, Hartman delineates the evolution of a life of and in learning over five remarkably productive decades." -- -Elizabeth Freund Partial Answers "A Scholar's Tale begins to unravel the mask of impersonality that allowed Hartman, a brilliant reader, to dismiss the personal dimension of literary criticism a quarter-century ago." -Southern Humanities Review "Hartman's tale doesn't disappoint." -Arcade "Hartman's unsentimental tale plots a fascinating course through a critic's mind." -Forward "In the end, what is perhaps most compelling about Professor Hartman's story is his life-long engagement with the matter of Judaism, his own complex relation to Jewish identity." -Jewish Book World "[A] lucid and intriguing autobiographical memoir." -London Review of Books
£21.59
Fordham University Press Chasing Ghosts A Memoir of a Father Gone to War
Book Synopsis“Chasing Ghosts” describes how the daughter of a World War II veteran comes to understand her emotionally wounded father through his stories about his childhood, naval service in the late 1930s, and wartime experiences, and through the research she undertakes to understand her father’s life in the context of history.Trade Review"Both a beautifully detailed examination of wartime life and a searingly honest depiction of a fraught father-daughter relationship, Louise DeSalvo's Chasing Ghosts is a unique and valuable contribution to the literature of World War II." -- -Philip Klay author of Redeployment, winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction "A man and his family, inexorably defined by war, rise vividly from the pages of this excellent memoir. Louise DeSalvo remembers her soldier father in a manner both unsparing and elegiac. She roots around at the confounding heart of the filial bond and pulls up something admirably strong, original, and true." -- -Alexandra Styron author of Reading My Father: A Memoir "Louise DeSalvo extends a tradition that includes Montaigne and Emerson and Woolf. She writes to discover something she doesn't know when she starts. Her work becomes: it is transformative-art for the sake of life. She is one of the most accomplished memoir writers of our time. Chasing Ghosts is powerfully executed." -- -Joshua Fausty New Jersey City University "This painstakingly researched work not only explores a daughter's love for her father but also proves the dire effects of war (and particularly of WWII) on families, exposing the deeper "wounds of the soul" suffered by both soldiers and their loved ones." -Publishers Weekly "The "ghosts" [DeSalvo] chases are the ghosts that have been with her all along, shaping her childhood interest in history, and in war stories, and, eventually, in memoir-writing, which, she shows, can provide us with a new an illuminating version of the past" -Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsOne War Stories "Join the Navy, See the World" The Sea, the Sea On the Road to Nowhere, Moving Fast Fly Boy Man o' War's Man Dead as a Doornail A Very Smart Ship A Flower, A Sunburst, A Star The First Death Into the Drink Trouble Board War Games When Pigs Can Fly Two "The Girl for Me" "Of Couse I Will" Courtship Safe House Lifeboat Three So Much to Lose, So Much Already Lost Magic Bullet On the Day I Was Born "Hide Your Tears" House Hunting Four Secret Code Command Center The Sailor Who Flew Home on Wings of Air A Knock at the Door Just a Very, Very Few of the Many, Many Who Have Died Rage Chasing Ghosts Ship's Model Mopping Up Cargo Cult Five Coming Home The Evening News The Last Time My Father Almost Died Epilogue Wearing My Father's Bones Sources Acknowledgments
£18.89
ME - Fordham University Press Out of the Ordinary A Life of Gender and
Book SynopsisOut of the Ordinary is the memoir of Dr. Michael Dillon / Lobzang Jivaka (1915-1962) who transitioned from female to male between 1939 and 1949, became a ship’s surgeon in the (British) Merchant Navy, and was a monastic novice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition when he died unexpectedly in 1962.Trade Review"... Dillon's memoir charts his wide-ranging life of education, gender transition, and conversion to Buddhism...show(s) continuity of concerns with those of transgender individuals today." -Publishers Weekly "First and foremost, [Dillon/Jivaka] was a seeker after truth, who traveled wherever his queries led him. His peregrinations from Laura to Michael to Lobzang were all of a piece, as spiritual and metaphysical as they were intellectual and transsexual and medical." -- -Susan Stryker from the foreword "The importance of this work to the history of sexuality-and especially to the history of transsexuality-cannot be overstated." -- -Jose Ignacio Cabezon University of California, Santa Barbara "Blocked from publication in the 1960s and then hidden in a warehouse in London, Michael Dillon's autobiography moldered away for decades in the darkness. Now, for the first time ever, it has burst into print. The book illuminates the life of one of the ground-breaking transgender pioneers of the 20th century. Just important, it is a suspenseful and heart-breaking tale that begins at the English seaside and ends with a mysterious death in the Himalayan mountains. In his gripping autobiography, Dillon finds new answers to enduring questions about gender. At the same time, he never manages to solve the puzzle of his own identity and dies in the pursuit of transcendence. Dillon's memoir deserves a place alongside the great spiritual narratives, from Augustine to Merton. This edition is beautifully put together, with an introduction and notes supplied by a trio of scholars who have immersed themselves in Dillon's life history." -- -Pagan Kennedy author of The First Man-Made Man "While so much of the history of transsexualism has circulated around and through a few highly publicized lives of trans women, Jacob Lau and Cameron Partridge have made an indelible contribution to the modern histories of gender and sexuality by publishing this autobiography. Their introduction carefully situates the history of one of the earliest female to male transitions and gives us a smart and sympathetic account of the political, social and material complexities of Dillon/Jivaka's life. This is an astonishing story." -- -Jack Halberstam author of Female Masculinity and In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural LivesTable of ContentsForeword by Susan Stryker Editors' Note "In His Own Way, In His Own Time": An Introduction to Out of the Ordinary Out of the Ordinary Author's Introduction Part I. Conquest of the Body 1. Birth and Origins 2. The Nursery 3. Schooldays 4. Oxford 5. War-The Darkest of Days Part II. Conquest of the Mind 6. Medical Student 7. Resident Medical Officer 8. Surgeon M.N. 9. On the Haj 10. Round the World 11. Interlude Ashore 12. The Last Voyage 13. Imji Getsul Michael Dillon / Lobzang Jivaka: A Timeline Acknowledgments
£26.99
Fordham University Press Out of the Ordinary
Book SynopsisOut of the Ordinary is the memoir of Dr. Michael Dillon / Lobzang Jivaka (1915-1962) who transitioned from female to male between 1939 and 1949, became a ship’s surgeon in the (British) Merchant Navy, and was a monastic novice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition when he died unexpectedly in 1962.
£16.14
Fordham University Press Radio Active
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword by Mario M. Cuomo | xv Introduction | 1 PART I. THE FIRST AMENDMENT “Forty-five Simple Words” by Jack Valenti | 5 Bill O’Reilly’s “Character Assassination”: A WVOX Commentary | 8 The Silencing of Imus | 12 Bob Grant on the Imus Controversy | 15 “Don’t Hush Rush . . . ” | 18 Missing in Action by Patrick D. Maines | 21 The Real Obscenity | 24 Floyd Abrams: Notes and Observations on the First Amendment | 26 Free Speech on the Airwaves: Confab with Mario Cuomo | 32 Ambassador Ogden Rogers Reid | 43 Nancy Pelosi v. James Madison | 46 Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism | 57 Obsequious Acquiescence by William O’Shaughnessy | 62 Issue Advertising Is the Issue | 69 Re: Corporate Censorship | 71 First Amendment Warriors by William O’Shaughnessy | 72 A Towering Triumvirate | 77 PART II. OPEN MIC RADIO INTERVIEWS Chris Ruddy, Chairman of Newsmax | 85 Interview with Dan Rather on his Book What Unites Us | 90 Bill Mohl, President, Entergy Wholesale Commodities | 93 Roger Stone on The Man Who Killed Kennedy, the Cuomos, and More | 105 Richard Norton Smith, Historian and Biographer | 115 Angelo Martinelli, Publisher | 137 “The Mendicant,” Father Paul Lostritto, O.F.M. | 147 Bishop Joseph Sullivan | 161 Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York | 170 Dr. Christopher Comfort, Medical Director, Calvary Hospital | 174 Frank Gifford: “#16” | 185 William O’Shaughnessy on the Fred Dicker Radio Show | 188 Alfred F. Kelly Jr. | 191 Gerald Shargel, Esq. | 204 John Cahill | 212 PART III. OF AN EVENING... A Little Night Music | 231 The Best Interpreters of the Great American Songbook | 234 “A Real New York Evening . . . ” Review | 236 On the Occasion of Sirio Maccioni’s Eightieth Birthday | 237 Sirio Maccioni of Le Cirque | 238 Saloon Songs from Toots Shor to Sirio Maccioni | 249 More “Saloon Songs” (an Update) | 257 “The Numbers” | 264 The One Night Stand of Charles Osgood | 268 PART IV. IN PRAISE OF “VIVID SOULS” The Unforgettables | 273 A Different Kind of List | 289 Vivid Women in Every Season | 293 Notes for the Four Seasons Tribute Evening | 296 Westchester County Press Ninetieth Anniversary | 299 Richard Clark’s Eightieth Birthday | 301 Judge Samuel Fredman’s Ninetieth-Birthday Celebration | 304 HOPE Community Services Gala: Honoring Frank Endress | 311 Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Christian Brothers | 314 A Community Celebration Honoring Commissioner Patrick J. Carroll | 316 PART V. EULOGIES: THE LAST WORD Eulogy for John S. Pritchard III | 323 Henry Kissinger’s Tribute to John McCain | 326 Philip Roth, Out and About of an Evening | 329 Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Eulogy for Jimmy Breslin | 333 A Personal Tribute to Jimmy Breslin | 336 Our Neighbor Ruby Dee | 344 Tribute to Ruby Dee by Harry Belafonte | 346 “A Death in the Family”: Tim Russert | 349 Don Rickles and the Focaccia Kid at Le Cirque! | 354 Frances W. Preston, “Th e Lady from Nashville” | 355 Kate O’Shaughnessy Nulty’s Tribute to Mary Jane Wharton, Her Grandmother | 357 Nelson: A Child of the Neighborhood | 359 William O’Shaughnessy’s Tribute to Martin Beck | 365 Tribute to Paul Hutton | 368 Tribute to Peter Mustich, Townie | 370 Another Beloved Townie Open Line Caller | 372 Tribute to Rick Buckley, Beloved Broadcaster | 376 Tribute to Stu Olds, Beloved Broadcast Exec | 379 Tribute to Ward Quaal, Broadcasting’s Greatest Statesman | 382 William B. Williams’s Hall of Fame Induction | 384 Tribute to Dawson B. “Tack” Nail | 387 The Passing of Peggy Burton | 390 Diane Gagliardi Collins Passes Away at Ninety | 392 John Mara’s Eulogy for Ann T. Mara | 393 Eulogy for Joseph A. Anastasi, “The Captain” | 398 Eulogy for the Hon. Salvatore T. Generoso, “The Last Legend” | 401 Caryl Donnelly Plunkett: An Appreciation | 404 An Appreciation of Jim Delmonico (1920–2012) | 408 The Incomparable “Joe Slick”: An Appreciation | 410 John Scully: A Sailor and a Gentleman | 414 A Tribute to “Colonel” Marty Rochelle | 417 Tribute to Ambassador Edward Noonan Ney | 420 Tribute to Bob Grant | 421 “The Amazin’ ” Bill Mazer | 422 Tribute to Governor Brendan Byrne | 423 Page Morton Black, the “Chock full o’Nuts” Lady | 424 Brother Driscoll of Iona, Great Educator and More | 427 Rush Limbaugh III Tribute to Ed McLaughlin | 430 PART VI. THE OBLIGATORY MARIO M. CUOMO SECTION IN EVERY BILL O’SHAUGHNESSY BOOK “The Morning After”: A Stunningly Candid Interview with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo | 441 Remarks of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo at Central Synagogue Interfaith Service | 455 Mario Cuomo: A Dream | 460 Matilda Cuomo | 461 William O’Shaughnessy Interview with Mario Cuomo Re: Andy O’Rourke | 472 Interview with Mario M. Cuomo | 476 Dutch Treat Club Annual Dinner Presentation of the Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts for Governor Mario M. Cuomo | 484 Dutch Treat Club Luncheon | 486 An Evanescent Supreme Court Nomination: The Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Story | 497 Andrew Cuomo’s Eulogy for Mario Cuomo | 500 Mario: This Is Personal | 513 “Quotable Quotes”—Reviews of Mario Cuomo: Remembrances of a Remarkable Man | 523 A Note on Mario Cuomo and Teilhard de Chardin | 532 Mario Cuomo’s Omega Society Speech: A Meditation on Ultimate Values | 533 PART VII. THE EXTRAORDINARY BUSH FAMILY George W. Bush’s Eulogy for His Father, President George H.W. Bush | 541 Whitney Global Media Endorsement: George H.W. Bush for President, 1992 | 546 Thank You Letter from “41” | 551 George W. Bush for President, 2000 | 552 Billy Bush Deserves a Second Chance | 555 Phil Reisman: In Defense of Billy Bush | 557 “Great on Imus”: A Letter from Jonathan Bush | 559 Jonathan Bush’s Letter on Imus to CBS Radio | 560 PART VIII. AIRBORNE ENDORSEMENTS Governor Andrew Cuomo for Governor | 565 Alessandra Biaggi for State Senate | 569 Julie Killian for State Senate | 571 George Latimer for Westchester County Executive | 576 Rob Astorino for County Executive | 580 Judge Daniel Angiolillo | 584 Ernie Davis for Mayor | 587 Stay the Course with Mayor Bradley | 589 PART IX. A MAN OF LETTERS Letter to Rush Limbaugh (March 1, 2018) | 593 Letter to Rush Limbaugh (March 26, 2018) | 594 Letter from Rush Limbaugh to William O’Shaughnessy | 596 Letter to Rush Limbaugh (April 23, 2018) | 597 The Holy Roman Catholic Church: Letter to Michael “Lionel” Lebron | 598 A Note from Dan Rather | 600 Facebook Note from Kate O’Shaughnessy Nulty | 601 In Defense of Le Cirque: Letter to Pete Wells | 602 Letter to Pete Wells Regarding the new Four Seasons | 605 Admiring John Sterling: Letter to Scott Herman | 607 “A Westchester Legend”: Letter from Samuel G. Fredman | 609 Re: William B. Williams and Rick Buckley: Letter from Dick Robinson | 611 Letter to William O’Shaughnessy from Ralph Graves | 613 PART X. THE GREAT ISSUES. ABORTION AND THE DEATH PENALTY: LIFE IN EVERY INSTANCE Timothy Cardinal Dolan: Reclaim the Truth of the Human Person | 617 The Greatest Issue, Abortion: A WVOX Commentary | 624 The Death Penalty (Pope Francis’s view) | 625 The Death Penalty (Gov. Mario M. Cuomo’s view) | 626 Las Vegas Shooting: Another “Thoughts and Prayers” Day | 631 The New Killing Season | 634 Comments from “The Deplorables” | 636 The 137 Real Reasons Why Hillary Lost and Trump Won | 639 “Those People” | 644 Down-Home Democracy in the Land of Thomas Paine | 646 Fifty Years after President Kennedy Was Assassinated | 647 Acknowledgments | 649 Index | 657 Photographs follow pages 200 and 424
£27.90
Fordham University Press NBC Goes to War
Book SynopsisThe diary of radio correspondent James Cassidy presents a unique view of World War II as this reporter followed the Allied armies into Nazi Germany.James Joseph Cassidy was one of 362 American journalists accredited to cover the European Theater of Operations between June 7, 1944, and the war's end. Radio was relatively new, and World War II was its first war. Among the difficulties facing historians examining radio reporters during that period is that many potential primary documentstheir live broadcastswere not recorded. In NBC Goes to War, Cassidy's censored scripts alongside his personal diary capture a front-line view during some of the nastiest fighting in World War II as told by a seasoned NBC reporter.James Cassidy was ambitious and young, and his coverage of World War II for the NBC radio network notched some notable firsts, including being the first to broadcast live from German soil and arranging the broadcast of a live Jewish religious service fTable of ContentsForeword by Michael S. Sweeney | vii List of Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Army Terms | ix Introduction | 1 1. July 24 through August 3, 1944 | 13 2. August 4 through August 23, 1944 | 25 3. August 24 through September 14, 1944 | 47 4. September 16 through October 13, 1944 | 76 5. October 14 through November 30, 1944 | 105 6. December 1 through December 31, 1944 | 134 Text of James Cassidy Broadcasts, December 21 through 29, 1944 | 165 Appendix: Significant American Correspondents Mentioned in Text | 183 Acknowledgments | 189 Notes | 191 Index | 201
£18.99
University of Hawai'i Press Child of War A Memoir of World War II Internment
Book SynopsisA touching story of three years of the authorâs childhood as he endured fear, starvation, sickness, and separation from his father while interned in three different Japanese prison camps on the island of Luzon. Written by the adult Tong looking back on his wartime ordeal, it offers a rich trove of memories about internment life and camp experiences.
£21.56
University of Hawai'i Press Unearthing the Polynesian Past Adventures and
Book SynopsisPerhaps no scholar has done more to reveal the ancient history of Polynesia than noted archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch. Looking back over the past half-century of Polynesian archaeology, Kirch reflects on how the questions we ask about the past have changed over the decades, how archaeological methods have advanced, and how our knowledge of the Polynesian past has vastly improved.
£33.71
University of Hawai'i Press Freedom Without Justice The Prison Memoirs of
Book SynopsisPresents the compelling story of one man's wrongful incarceration and the actions he took to survive ten years in prison, while his supporters fought to win retrial and freedom. As a memoir, it is at once a captivating chronicle of his life with a trenchant description of how prisons end up producing the non-normativity they purport to prevent.
£51.00
University of Hawai'i Press Ship of Fate
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£22.36
Beaufort Books A Walk in the Clouds
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£19.76
Beaufort Books Bitterroot A Memoir
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£19.76
Beaufort Books As I Saw It
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Marvin Scott is a classic example of what a good reporter is. He sits on the sideline and tells the story. Marvin Scott is a reporter's reporter. What a great journey he has experienced and he tells it all right here. A pro's pro." -- Larry King"Marvin Scott tells it like he saw it, and you're getting this intrepid reporter's vivid and telling account of his half century at the heart of New York's political and social scene. He knows everybody and has seen everything. Get ready for a wild ride." -- Geraldo Rivera"Marvin Scott is the real deal. These stories reflect the Integrity, honesty and humor that are the hallmark of this journalist's journalist." -- Al Roker"Over the years, I have known Marvin Scott as an objective storyteller who never wavers in his commitment to great reporting. This book is a testament to his incredible career." -- Rudy GiulianiAs a young reporter starting out at WCBS-TV IN 1979, I only knew of Marvin Scott's reputation as a tough competitor and a great storyteller. But I would come to truly know him as a gentleman...a journalist who always cared about getting it right, but not at the expense of his humanity or anyone else's. As I see it, Marvin is a treasure and his book a treasure trove of fascinating insights into some of the most intriguing people and events of our lifetime. -- Meredith VieiraAs I Saw Itdeftly pairs Scott's unique storytelling and photography to give his readers a new look at the singular experiences of a lifelong reporter, and the stories that shaped a generation. Very highly recommended for both community and academic library Contemporary Journalism collections. -- Library BookwatchMarvin Scott has seen it all. He's a born storyteller who gives a fresh perspective on life's everyday experiences that have shaped us all. Dan Rather (he wrote the foreword) probably best describes him best. 'The dictionary describes intrepid as being of resolute fearlessness, fortitude, and endurance. That is exactly how to describe Marvin Scott's journey as a lifelong reporter-and to describe the man himself. It fits Marvin like a bespoke suit.' -- New York Lifestyles
£21.56
Beaufort Books The Camino
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£14.44
Beaufort Books Becoming Odyssa
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£22.91
Beaufort Books Becoming Odyssa
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£13.25
Beaufort Books Illusions of Camelot
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£20.79
University of Missouri Press Soldiers and Statesmen
Book SynopsisWhich generals were most influential in World War II? Did Winston Churchill really see himself as culturally 'half American'? What really caused the break between Harry S. Truman and Dwight Eisenhower? In Soldiers and Statesmen, John S. D. Eisenhower answers these questions and more, offering his personal reflections on great leaders of our time.
£43.22
University of Missouri Press Bataan Survivor
Book SynopsisThe personal memoir of Colonel David L. Hardee, dictated and written at sea from April-May 1945 following his liberation from Japanese captivity, is a thorough treatment of his time in the Philippines. This once-forgotten memoir has been carefully edited, illustrated, and annotated to unlock the true depths of Hardee’s experience as a soldier, prisoner, and liberated survivor.
£54.10
University of Missouri Press The Story of Rose ONeill Volume 1
Book SynopsisIn these memoirs, Rose O’Neill reveals herself as a woman who preferred art, activism, and adventure to motherhood and marriage. Featuring photographs from the family collection, this book reveals the ways in which she pushed at the boundaries of her generation’s definitions of gender in an effort to create new liberating forms.Trade Review“Her life story, as recounted in an unfinished manuscript left to relatives when she died, is full of wonderful comments showing her zest for life and her unwillingness to settle into conventional roles. . . . O'Neill has a deceptively simple style that is well suited to conveying her feelings and observations without seeming self-indulgent. The book is an interesting portrait of a woman whose accomplishments would be remarkable today, let alone earlier this century."—Publishers Weekly"“The publication of her autobiography for the first time gives full voice to O’Neill’s comments, insights, and self-exploration . . . this edited volume is an important addition to reading, but also rereading, O’Neill in the light of feminist and interdisciplinary material culture criticism."—The Journal of American History
£25.60
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico For the Love of a Horse
Book SynopsisIn his eighty-plus years, Max Evans has known, owned, ridden, and been thrown by quite a number of horses. In For the Love of a Horse, Evans shares his favourite horse stories for all to enjoy.
£15.26
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Hard Grass Life on the Crazy Woman Bison Ranch
Book SynopsisMary Zeiss Stange's story of running a bison ranch with her husband in southeastern Montana is a narrative of survival in a landscape and a society at once harsh and alluring. Less memoir than deep history of people and place, these vivid, naturalistic tales examine the complex relationships that comprise life in the rural West today.Trade Review"Scholar, rancher, hunter, and feminist, Mary Zeiss Stange finally gives the fly-over country of the West what it's been lacking: a nuanced portrait of its people and animals from someone invested in the harsh and beautiful landscape."—Ted Kerasote, author of Bloodties: Nature, Culture, and the Hunt and Out There: In the Wild in a Wired Age
£15.26
University of New Mexico Press Headed into the Wind A Memoir
Book SynopsisWith the temperament of Santa Claus and the tenacity of a badger, Jack Loeffler reveals his compassion and concern for Southwestern traditional cultures and their respective habitats. In this honest memoir, he advises each and every one of us to go skinny-dipping joyfully in the flow of Nature to better understand where we're headed.Trade ReviewOver these pages, we relive Loeffler's life and learn why he might honestly come to the Title of America's most interesting and thoughtful man." - Sean Prentiss, author of Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave
£21.56
University of New Mexico Press Under the Pi241on Tree Finding a Place in Pie
Book SynopsisRaised in Catron County around Pie Town, Jerry D. Thompson is a well-known Southwestern and Civil War historian. Part regional history, part family history, and part childhood memories, this book traces the lives of Catron County residents and explores how the area has grown and changed since the Depression and World War II.Trade ReviewThis well-written, attractive, and valuable book will appeal to a wide spectrum of readers. Those interested in New Mexico history, the rural Southwest, and a 'growing up' memoir will be very pleased with this pleasant and revealing story."--Richard W. Etulain, author of Western Lives: A Biographical History of the American West"Historian Jerry Thompson has written a warm, wide-eyed, engaging, and detail-rich memoir, from the perspective of his childhood self, of the hard life and hardy people who struggled not only to stay alive but to remain good to each other in the outback of western New Mexico between World War I and World War II. This is history and memoir at their best."--V. B. Price, author of Broken and Reset: Selected Poems, 1966 to 2006
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MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Disequilibria Meditations on Missingness
Book SynopsisA hybrid memoir that recounts the 1982 disappearance of the author’s stepfather, James Edward Lewis, a pilot and Vietnam veteran. Recounting his family’s experiences in searching for answers, Lunday interrogates the broader cultural and conceptual responses to the phenomenon of missingness.Trade ReviewElliptical prose . . .moving . . .elegiac."--Publishers Weekly "With its arresting catalogue of anecdotes and passages illustrating missingness, Disequilibria captures what it's like to become obsessed with a mystery, as well as what it feels like to get trapped in its labyrinth. But most compellingly, it teaches us that if the grief-stricken can't find out the truth, they can attain solace in the still-present love for those who are gone."--Rigoberto González, author of Abuela in Shadow, Abuela in Light"This haunting, engrossing, superbly written memoir is full of revelations and mysteries: a kind of prose epic of the missing. Chockful of Americana, it is also marbled with uncanny literary references: Robert Lunday seems to have read everything and put it to good use. His intelligence makes this book shine."--Phillip Lopate, author of A Mother's TaleTable of Contents Finding; Understanding Doubles Oracles Relics The Asymptote Parallax Nomads and Exiles In the Cloud The Middle Distance Face of Shadows Uroboros The Sun and I Hitchhike Sayaboury I Am the Grass The Boy Scout Handbook Circles The Verge Vita Activa Disequilibria A Beautiful Death China The Swerve A Feral Presence Dark Heart The Vortex Flitcraft's Folly Wakefields The Circumambient Self Subterranean Spirit Radios Lightness Foolish Dreams Old Soldiers Never Die Worldness Flying on Fumes July 3, 1969 The Edge Desert Dreams The Return Acknowledgments Notes
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Chalice Press Confessions of a Former Prosecutor
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Loyola Press My Life with the Saints
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Loyola Press Life Clues
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InterVarsity Press Walking Through Twilight
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SPCK - IVP US A Prayer for Orion A Sons Addiction and a
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InterVarsity Press Blessed Are the Nones
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Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City Making the Climb What a Novice Climber Learned
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Lillenas Publishing Confessions of an Adulterous Christian Woman Lies
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Quest Books,U.S. The Healing Effects of Energy Medicine Memoirs of
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Associated University Presses Israeli Journal
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Rizzoli International Publications I Can Give You Anything but Love
Book SynopsisThe long-awaited memoir from one of the most acclaimed radical writers in American literature. Described by the London Review of Books as one of “the most brilliant critics writing in America today,” Gary Indiana is a true radical whose caustic voice has by turns haunted and influenced the literary and artistic establishments. With I Can Give You Anything but Love, Gary Indiana has composed a literary, unabashedly wicked, and revealing montage of excursions into his life and work—from his early days growing up gay in rural New Hampshire to his escape to Haight-Ashbury in the post–summer-of-love era, the sweltering 1970s in Los Angeles, and ultimately his existence in New York in the 1980s as a bona fide downtown personality. Interspersed throughout his vivid recollections are present-day chapters set against the louche culture and raw sexuality of Cuba, where he has lived and worked occasionally for the past fifteen years. ConnoisseTrade Review"In sharing his memoirs, Gary Indiana exposes the inner turmoil, his naked truths of sexuality as a gay man and the clear and still present intuitive qualities of his distinctive and intelligent voice as a writer. . . 'I Can Give You Anything But Love' is not a breezy read and that is part of the fascination to be found in his writing style and livelihood."-EDGEMEDIANETWORK.COM"It's impossible to agree or disagree with all of Indiana's (often fearless) critical pronouncements, but it's likewise impossible to discount his tremendous style, wit, and education. Careworn copies of this long overdue memoir will change hands for the rest of the year and beyond." -FLAVORWIRE.COM "This memoir is classic Gary Indiana, waspish and gorgeous and a little wary of sharing its heart when sharing its other parts might work just as well."-openlettersmonthly.com"A graphic and funny memoir, [I Can Give You Anything But Love] finds Indiana reinventing yet another genre - this time using his own personal narrative. He becomes the connective tissue that binds together a diaspora of subcultures: the beatnik-era experimental writing and happenings of downtown New York, the 1960s co-opted counterculture gone awry, the punk movement that followed, and the art and intellectual circles of the Reagan 80s, when the AIDS crisis was wiping out a generation of young gay men like him." -THE LOS ANGELES TIMES"I Can Give You Anything But Love is discursive, impressionistic, punctuated by incisive reflections on history and culture, witty evocations of period and place, mystifying forays into character assassination, and frank descriptions of sex." -THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
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Rizzoli Breakfast Lunch Dinner Life Recipes and
Book SynopsisFOREWORD INDIES Book of the Year Awards — 2017 BRONZE Winner for CookingIn her first cookbook, the acclaimed chef, winner of a 2018 James Beard Award for Best Chef: New York City, shares her favorite cook-at-home recipes, inspired by her year off from professional cooking. Missy Robbins had been on an upward trajectory through the ranks of chefdom, racking up accolades in Chicago at Spiaggia and in New York as the executive chef of A Voce Madison and A Voce Columbus, both of which earned Michelin stars under her leadership. But success in the grueling world of restaurant cooking took a toll, in sacrifices of time, health, and relationships. So in 2013 Robbins hung up the title of executive chef to explore life outside of the restaurant. This book is a result of that year off: A collection of recipes that Robbins created in her tiny West Village kitchen while she rediscovered life outside of the restaurant world. ThTrade Review"Chef Missy Robbins, who can't be written about without a mention of her time cooking at Chicago's Spiaggia, where the Obamas became fans of her food, is to thank for the menu. She's friendly and smart and down-to-earth - traits I've learned from devouring her new cookbook, "Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner ... Life!" As a memoir peppered with her home kitchen recipes, it's a good read that's also lovely to look at. Somewhere between instructions on how to build a pantry and grill summer beans (which were on the menu at Lilia on a recent visit) and steps for preparing fried chicken and, of course, pastas, is a section on the Italian aperitivo hour - and a simple little instruction to pour the perfect negroni."—The New York Times, T Magazine"The first cookbook from NYC chef Missy Robbins (A Voce, Lilia) comes out September 19. Angled as a cookbook-memoir, Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner...Life! Recipes and Adventures from My Home Kitchen is inspired by the year Robbins took off from cooking professionally to focus on her personal health and relationships"—Eater.com"The deal: Robbins' anticipated cookbook is like a look inside her culinary diary, with childhood favorites, signature Italian dishes, travel inspiration and more. Recipe to try: Any of the pasta dishes Good for: Home cooks looking for a challenge"—AM New York "...inspired by a recipe from her new cookbook: Breakfast, Lunch Dinner....Life! Recipes and Adventures from My Home Kitchen. "—Gothamist"We know its not a pasta book, but InStyle notes that the book houses over 100 recipes that were 'all dreamed up right before Missy opened Italian hot spot Lilia.' "—InStyle"Before she opened the always-booked Lilia in Brooklyn, Robbins was exploring what it meant for a professional chef to actually take time for herself. These are the simple, beautifully balanced recipes that sustained her in the process. "—TastingTable.com"Lilia, known for its otherworldly homemade pastas, has been one of New York's hottest restaurants since it opened in 2016. But if you can't get a reservation (and if you can, take us, please?), chef Missy Robbins's first cookbook is the next best thing. In addition to the Italian dishes that earned her a Michelin star, she includes homey favorites like chicken soup and dumplings, lots of veggies and even some Asian recipes inspired by international travel."—PureWOW.com"As executive chef of A Voce Madison and A Voce Columbus in New York, her skills earned both restaurants Michelin stars before deciding to take a year off. Her first cookbook, Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner… Life!: Recipes and Adventures from My Home Kitchen, bears the fruits of that time, sharing the new world of cooking she discovered both in her tiny West Village kitchen, and travels around the world."—Food & Wine Magazine"Missy Robbins on Cooking Up Something New"—Women's Wear Daily "The charming and welcoming chef, who recently moved to Williamsburg to be closer to Lilia, chatted with Domino about the book, how she stays healthy, and her favorite go-to recipes."—Domino"New York City chef Missy Robbins took a year off from the restaurant game, and the result is this cookbook, an ode to cooking for the joy of it. There are, of course, the Italian dishes Robbins is famous for, but she also includes healthy fare and some Thai and Vietnamese-inspired recipes after taking a trip to those countries."—Food52.com"In her new cookbook, Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner … Life: Recipes and Adventures from My Home Kitchen (which came out in September), Robbins reveals her favorite version of an all-purpose tomato sauce"—Bloomberg Pursuits "Thankfully, when she's not sitting across from you, regaling you with the accounts of her pasta-making training in Italy, her new book, Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner...Life is there to keep the craving satisfied"—Saveur.com "She is in the best shape of her life, she says, after adopting some healthier habits that have stuck with her, and has recently published a cookbook called Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner...Life where she shares the lessons and recipes she developed while she transitioned from cooking in a professional kitchen into much tighter and less lavishly-stocked quarters at home."—Extra Crispy"Missy Robbins has figured out a fundamental kitchen truth"—Appetite For Books "After a career of more than 20 years as an executive chef in professional kitchens, Robbins finally embraced the joy of cooking for herself at the age of 42. She documents this personal journey (and self-discovery) through food in her new book, Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner… Life!"—MyDomaine.com"With a candid eye and a sense of humor, Robbins details her first days out of the kitchen and drops culinary wisdom culled from years in the business and extensive travel."—Brownstoner
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Rizzoli International Publications I Was a Teenage Banshee
Book SynopsisA Künstlerroman by British contemporary artist Sue Webster, which combines personal memoir with an exploration of the ongoing influence of youth, music, and Siouxsie and the Banshees on her life and work.Emanating from a poignant unpacking of objects and memories--which Webster has turned into a private exhibition to coincide with the publica-tion--this book positions the Banshees and the artist herself alongside visual references to everyone from David Bowie and the Sex Pistols to William Burroughs and Salvador Dalí--using the Banshees and the punk scene amid which she grew up as an entry point to reflect on the cultural and personal evolutions of the last decades.More than 300 illustrations combine ephemera with artwork and reveal the connection between influence and art: objects documenting her fanaticism of the Banshees, from record covers and photographs to ticket stubs and lyrics; paraphernalia from books, artists, and cultural figures that relaTrade Review"Now solo, Webster continues to be a woman of many parts, and one who has lost none of her desire to work with found objects. But with her new book, installation and home, she is resolutely using her own material and on her own terms." — ART NEWSPAPER"A book published by Rizzoli and entitled I Was A Teenage Banshee accompanies the work, as a part-personal memoir and part-exploration of the ongoing influence of youth, music, and Siouxsie and the Banshees." — WALLPAPER*"Her reverence for the band is the subject of her new book, I Was a Teenage Banshee, a catalogue of her obsessions and inspirations. Here, the artist recounts the stories behind some of her Siouxsies." —INTERVIEW
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Rizzoli International Publications A Tower in Tuscany Or a Home for My Writers and
Book SynopsisA glimpse inside a magical Tuscan villa--rustic yet urbane, old-world elegant yet bohemian, accessible yet personal--that nurtures the world's finest literary talents.In the hills above Florence, Santa Maddalena is like a secret garden where writers hone their craft and meet like-minded people. Paired with evocative images, these essays by 27 acclaimed authors invite readers to understand how the spirit of this restored villa, its owners and resident pets have inspired creative writing and creativity among so many.Monti della Corte and her late husband, Gregor von Rezzori, transformed a ruin into the ultimate retreat where they would write, garden, and entertain friends and fellow artists--Pedro Almodóvar, Bernardo Bertolucci, David Hockney, Isabella Rossellini. This gracious weaving together of hospitality and creativity became the Santa Maddalena Foundation and writers' fellowship program in 2000.Trade Review"What’s better than a look inside a home in the idyllic Italian countryside? A selection of essays from authors including Zadie Smith and Edmund White, among many others who’ve retreated to a storied Tuscan farmhouse to write." —ELLE DECOR"Beatrice Monti della Corte has been welcoming writers to her villa in Tuscany for what feels like forever. Ralph Fiennes and Edmund White recount the extraordinary experience of being there." —AIRMAIL.COM
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Rizzoli International Publications Monuments Man
Book SynopsisA classic now back in print and enriched with new imagery, James J. Rorimer’s riveting first-hand account takes readers on a treasure hunt as he follows the Allied troops across France and Germany to save Nazi-stolen masterpieces of art.James J. Rorimer, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, became a leading figure in the art recovery unit known as the Monuments Men, an elite group imbedded in the US Army, who risked their lives during World War II to save Europe’s greatest artworks from Hitler’s grasp. In the film Monuments Men, Matt Damon’s character is based on Rorimer as he embarks on the world’s most dangerous real-life hunt for stolen artworks with the goal of locating, seizing, and returning the works to their original holders, including museums and private collectors. This new edition of a book first published in 1950 includesTrade Review"...It is a vivid boots-on-the-ground memoir that puts you at the center of the action...At the same time the book has the broad historical context of the best scholarly studies. "Monuments Man" is an utterly extraordinary—and extraordinarily important—book." —WALL STREET JOURNAL“Monuments Man provides a moving and thought-provoking account of Rorimer’s work and the atrocious circumstances in which he and his colleagues were operating. But reading his account anew, it really brought home to me the degree to which it is thanks to the rapid actions and dedication of Rorimer and his colleagues that so many treasures were saved from flooding salt mines, abandoned railroad trucks, fires, appalling humidity and inappropriate storage conditions, and rampant looting by all sides. And, equally, thanks to their scholarship and dedication that these objects were then catalogued and processed and returned to the collections and homes from which they had been taken by the Nazis. Rorimer’s book provides a moving testimony that if wars and mass murder can be unleashed by a single evil person, aided and abetted by a corrupted political system, the antidote to that tyranny is provided by brave individuals who devote their lives to doing the right thing. Rorimer was one of those men.” —Thomas Campbell, former Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and current Director and CEO of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
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Thomas Nelson Publishers Reggie
Book SynopsisTaking a chronological look at his life, Reggie reveals the transforming power of faith, weaving in personal anecdotes, biblical principles, and ten ways to discover everything from your voice and your name to your hero and your passion. Prepare to discover, as Reggie did, that although you cannot change your past, you can change your future.
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The Merlin Press Ltd Reasons to Rebel
Book SynopsisFollowing on from Daring to Hope, 9781839763892; Promise of a Dream 9781788734806 , The 1980s were a shock. Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government battered left movements, painfully disrupted working-class peoples' livelihoods and pressed down on many groups who faced discrimination.
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Spokesman Books Tom Manns Memoirs Socialist Classics
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Spokesman Books This I Cannot Forget The Memoirs of Nikolai
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