How Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand Found Liberty in an
Freedoms Furies tells the story of the friendships between three remarkable American novelists--Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand--who stood for individualism against the tides of the twentieth century collectivism, and in the process transformed politics in the United States.
How Trade Policy and Industrial Decline Transformed America
The decline of the U.S. textile and apparel industries between the 1940s and 1970s helped lay the groundwork for the twenty-first century's potent economic populism in America. James C. Benton looks at how shortsighted trade and economic policy by labor, business, and government undermined an employment sector that once employed millions and ......
How Trade Policy and Industrial Decline Transformed America
The decline of the U.S. textile and apparel industries between the 1940s and 1970s helped lay the groundwork for the twenty-first century's potent economic populism in America. James C. Benton looks at how shortsighted trade and economic policy by labor, business, and government undermined an employment sector that once employed millions and ......
Dispatches of World War II Correspondent Sidney A. Olson
This is a primary source on World War II, which contains the unedited dispatches and personal correspondence of an American reporter embedded with the US Army in Western Europe from 1944 to 1945. His writings capture the human story of the war in Europe in a way that hits on many big themes such as combat, the Holocaust, strategic bombing, the ......
Alain Silver and James Ursini, the editors of numerous studies of film noir, present a new anthology of essays that examine the visual style of the filmmakers of cinema s classic period.
Looks into life in the Chinese countryside, where tradition and modernity have had both a complimentary and caustic relationship in the years since the Chinese Communist Party first came to power. This volume offers insight into the lives of peasants and China's complex social processes.
The original 1944 G I Bill holds a special place in the American imagination. This book takes the story of veterans' politics beyond the 1944 G I Bill as he seeks to uncover the reasons why Vietnam veterans were less well compensated than their predecessors.
Ezra Pound - one of the most innovative and influential, if controversial, poets of the 20th century - continues to dominate the current literary landscape. / He was a key figure in helping to create what became 'modernism'. Pound wrote poetry and criticism based on revolutionary aesthetic principles still relevant to our understanding of the arts ......
