Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, American
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
An interview of Richard Thomas conducted 1978 May 5-17, by Dennis Barrie, for the Archives of American Art.
Oral History Interview with Richard Thomas
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, American
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
An interview of Richard Thomas conducted 1978 May 5-17, by Dennis Barrie, for the Archives of American Art.
Interview with Richard Thomas
Author: Why Bob Dylan Matters
Author: Richard F. ThomasPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062939459
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
“The coolest class on campus” – The New York Times When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some celebrated, while many others questioned the choice. How could the world’s most prestigious book prize be awarded to a famously cantankerous singer-songwriter who wouldn’t even deign to attend the medal ceremony? In Why Bob Dylan Matters, Harvard Professor Richard F. Thomas answers this question with magisterial erudition. A world expert on Classical poetry, Thomas was initially ridiculed by his colleagues for teaching a course on Bob Dylan alongside his traditional seminars on Homer, Virgil, and Ovid. Dylan’s Nobel Prize brought him vindication, and he immediately found himself thrust into the spotlight as a leading academic voice in all matters Dylanological. Today, through his wildly popular Dylan seminar—affectionately dubbed "Dylan 101"—Thomas is introducing a new generation of fans and scholars to the revered bard’s work. This witty, personal volume is a distillation of Thomas’s famous course, and makes a compelling case for moving Dylan out of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and into the pantheon of Classical poets. Asking us to reflect on the question, "What makes a classic?", Thomas offers an eloquent argument for Dylan’s modern relevance, while interpreting and decoding Dylan’s lyrics for readers. The most original and compelling volume on Dylan in decades, Why Bob Dylan Matters will illuminate Dylan’s work for the Dylan neophyte and the seasoned fanatic alike. You’ll never think about Bob Dylan in the same way again.
Oral History Interview
Author: Robert H. ThomasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lawyers
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Educating for Democracy
Author: Anne ColbyPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780470623589
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Educating for Democracy reports the results of the Political Engagement Project, a study of educational practices at the college level that prepare students for responsible democratic participation. In this book, coauthors Anne Colby, Elizabeth Beaumont, Thomas Ehrlich, and Josh Corngold show that education for political development can increase students’ political understanding, skill, motivation, and involvement while contributing to many aspects of general academic learning.
A Directory of Oral History Interviews Related to the Federal Courts
Author: United States. Federal Judicial History OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
This work was produced in furtherance of the Center's statutory mandate to conduct, coordinate, and encourage programs relating to the history of the judicial branch ...
Typed Transcript of an Oral History Interview with Doris Thomas
Author: Idaho State Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blacks
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Card Catalog of the Oral History Collections of the Archives of American Art
Author: Archives of American ArtPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
American Arabists in the Cold War Middle East, 194675
Author: Teresa Fava ThomasPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 178308510X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This book examines the careers of 53 area experts in the US State Department’s Middle East bureau during the Cold War. Known as Arabists or Middle East hands, they were very different in background, education, and policy outlook from their predecessors, the Orientalists. A highly competitive selection process and rigorous training shaped them into a small corps of diplomatic professionals with top-notch linguistic and political reporting skills. Case studies shed light on Washington’s perceptions of Israel and the Arab world, as well as how American leaders came to regard (and often disregard) the advice of their own expert advisors. This study focuses on their transformative role in Middle East diplomacy from the Eisenhower through the Ford administrations.
D-Day
Author: Stephen E. AmbrosePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439126305
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 595
Book Description
Stephen E. Ambrose’s D-Day is the definitive history of World War II’s most pivotal battle, a day that changed the course of history. D-Day is the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their lives, when the horrors, complexities, and triumphs of life are laid bare. Distinguished historian Stephen E. Ambrose portrays the faces of courage and heroism, fear and determination—what Eisenhower called “the fury of an aroused democracy”—that shaped the victory of the citizen soldiers whom Hitler had disparaged. Drawing on more than 1,400 interviews with American, British, Canadian, French, and German veterans, Ambrose reveals how the original plans for the invasion had to be abandoned, and how enlisted men and junior officers acted on their own initiative when they realized that nothing was as they were told it would be. The action begins at midnight, June 5/6, when the first British and American airborne troops jumped into France. It ends at midnight June 6/7. Focusing on those pivotal twenty-four hours, it moves from the level of Supreme Commander to that of a French child, from General Omar Bradley to an American paratrooper, from Field Marshal Montgomery to a German sergeant. Ambrose’s D-Day is the finest account of one of our history’s most important days.