In this exciting book, distinguished Romanian diplomat and scholar George Cristian Maior - currently serving as Romania's ambassador in Washington - recounts the thrilling tale of America's first spy drama - the legendary Frank Wisner's intelligence operations in Romania as World War II ended and the Cold War dawned. An Office of Strategic ......
In this exciting book, distinguished Romanian diplomat and scholar George Cristian Maior - currently serving as Romania's ambassador in Washington - recounts the thrilling tale of America's first spy drama - the legendary Frank Wisner's intelligence operations in Romania as World War II ended and the Cold War dawned. An Office of Strategic ......
Building, Leveraging, and Sustaining Capacity in Historically Black College and Universities
This work uses current research data and interviews to present a cogent discussion of strategies and tactics needed to keep the HBCU community a healthy vital component of American educational life. The threats and problems of intuitional life are not glossed over rather they are discussed within the parameters of successful planning and ......
America is suffering from a deep spiritual crisis. The national polarization that so many miscast as political is really a conflict between two spiritual solutions pointing in drastically different directions. One is Wokeism, a new religion that speaks most clearly to America's spiritually starved young, urban, credentialed, professional elites. ......
This research work deals with subjects of great interest in current criticism---the impact of the New Historicist studies on the interpretation of American literary naturalism, and the issue of the possible persistence of the movement in contemporary fiction. Other essays deal with Norris, Crane and Dreiser who have up to now been considered ......
Patriotism, Diplomacy and the Paris Peace Conference, 1918-1919
In this study of the American historians who accompanied President Woodrow Wilson to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 Professor Nielson focuses on a development unique in its time (and now taken for granted): for the first time a president used the expertise of professional scholars as the basis for far reaching decisions on the immediate issues ......
In 1806 an anonymous Greek book called for a republican government, patterned upon that of the young United States, to be established in Greece, then long the rule of the Ottoman Empire. The "Americanization" of Greece presupposed independence. The book's author, Count John Capo d'Istria, was carried away by his own version of the "American ......
Conflict and Union of Opposites in Robert Graves, Laura Riding, WilliamEmpson and Yvor Winters
This work is a major research monograph on the discovery of ambiguity as an expressive resource in the criticism, literary theory and poetic practice of Robert Graves, Laura Riding, William Empson and Yvor Winters --- critical 20th c literary figures, poets and critics. As literary history, it examines the development of the critical ......
For forty years, Jackie Frame stood at the center of business, entertainment, and publicity in Classic Hollywood. This stunning collection of never before told vignettes reveals that lost world in all its splendor and with all its quirks. No scholar of the period will be able to reconstruct its dynamics, and no fan will be able to appreciate the ......
