Author: Jeffrey HeltermanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780810309142
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
American Novelists Since World War II
Author: Jeffrey HeltermanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780810309142
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
American Novelists Since World War II.
Author: James Richard GilesPublisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Contains biographical sketches of writers who either began writing novels after 1945 or have done their most important work since then.
American Novelists since world war II.
Author: Dictionary of Literary Biography
Author: James Richard GilesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780810309135
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
American Novelists Since World War II.
Author: James Richard GilesPublisher: Detroit [Mich.] : Gale Group
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Contains biographical sketches of writers who either began writing novels after 1945 or have done their most important work since then.
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Author: James E. KiblerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780810309135
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
American Novelists Since World War II
Author: James Richard GilesPublisher: Detroit [Mich.] : Gale Research
ISBN: 9780810355576
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
The Violent American Century
Author: John W. DowerPublisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608467260
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
“Tells how America, since the end of World War II, has turned away from its ideals and goodness to become a match setting the world on fire” (Seymour Hersh, investigative journalist and national security correspondent). World War II marked the apogee of industrialized “total war.” Great powers savaged one another. Hostilities engulfed the globe. Mobilization extended to virtually every sector of every nation. Air war, including the terror bombing of civilians, emerged as a central strategy of the victorious Anglo-American powers. The devastation was catastrophic almost everywhere, with the notable exception of the United States, which exited the strife unmatched in power and influence. The death toll of fighting forces plus civilians worldwide was staggering. The Violent American Century addresses the US-led transformations in war conduct and strategizing that followed 1945—beginning with brutal localized hostilities, proxy wars, and the nuclear terror of the Cold War, and ending with the asymmetrical conflicts of the present day. The military playbook now meshes brute force with a focus on non-state terrorism, counterinsurgency, clandestine operations, a vast web of overseas American military bases, and—most touted of all—a revolutionary new era of computerized “precision” warfare. In contrast to World War II, postwar death and destruction has been comparatively small. By any other measure, it has been appalling—and shows no sign of abating. The author, recipient of a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, draws heavily on hard data and internal US planning and pronouncements in this concise analysis of war and terror in our time. In doing so, he places US policy and practice firmly within the broader context of global mayhem, havoc, and slaughter since World War II—always with bottom-line attentiveness to the human costs of this legacy of unceasing violence. “Dower delivers a convincing blow to publisher Henry Luce’s benign ‘American Century’ thesis.” —Publishers Weekly
The South and America Since World War II
Author: James Charles CobbPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195166515
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
In this sweeping narrative, Cobb covers such diverse topics as "Dixiecrats," the "southern strategy," the South's domination of today's GOP, immigration, the national ascendance of southern culture and music, and the roles of women and an increasingly visible gay population in contemporary southern life. Beginning with the early stages of the civil rights struggle, Cobb discusses how the attack on Pearl Harbor set the stage for the demise of Jim Crow. He examines the NAACP's postwar assault on the South's racial system, the famous bus boycott in Montgomery, the emergence of Rev. Martin Luther King in the movement, and the dramatic protests and confrontations that finally brought profound racial changes, and two-party politics to the South.
King of the Jews
Author: Leslie EpsteinPublisher: Other Press, LLC
ISBN: 1590514327
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
New in Paperback This 1979 classic tells the darkly humorous story of I.C. Trumpelman, a man whose fancy determines the fate of others. Chosen as the head of a Judenrat, Trumpelman thrives on the power granted him and creates an authoritarian regime of his own within the ghetto. By turns a con man, charismatic leader and merciless dictator, Trumpelman reveals himself as an extraordinarily complex protagonist. Now available in a new paperback edition from Handsel Books, King of the Jews will continue to be an extraordinary vision of occupied Poland, and offer stunning insight through the trappings of history to questions of equal moral complexity today. "Mature, brilliantly sustained, thoroughly engrossing." -Newsweek "The best book yet to be written on the Holocaust. A superb novel." -San Francisco Chronicle "Remarkable. A lesson in what artistic restraint can do to help us imagine the dark places in our history." -The New York Times Book Review "Profoundly daring...Epstein can summon up life from the bottom of despair." -The Boston Globe "Epstein has done the impossible. He has shown what the power of art--of his art—can reveal of the depths of the unspeakable." -The Philadelphia Inquirer