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Ah, the Wild West! Wide open plains, beautiful sunsets, and thundering herds. Days when the cowboy was king, and good guys always wore white. The love affair with the American West has stood the test of time and survived competition from sports, electronic gadgets, and reality. Wanted Dead or Alive presents the first-ever comprehensive look at how ......
Holy wars, efforts to legislate biblical morality, sexual and financial misbehavior by ministers, new spiritual movements - these and other controversial religious phenomena make their way more and more frequently into what we read, hear, and see. Unsecular Media is the first comprehensive description and analysis of how the American news media ......
These stories, chosen from ten separately published collections of James T. Farrell's short fiction, offer remarkable insights into the lives of Irish Americans and other Chicagoans from 1910 to 1940. They are gems of the short fiction genre, unique, pioneering, and accomplished.Farrell's stories offer a wonderful diversity of characters and ......
This major work, the result of collaboration among scholars who worked at dozens of sites from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, is the first volume in English to summarize the massive quantity of archaeological data on the Paleolithic occupation of Siberia. Written by leading Russian experts and edited by scholars including the late ......
Unique and compelling, this husband-and-wife memoir of the Holocaust will move and inform generations. As we lose eyewitnesses to this ultimate horror, the Kuperhands present us with an elegantly restrained, yet hard-hitting, Kaddish to Polish Jewry. Miriam was the daughter of a prosperous furrier; Saul was the son of a poor shoemaker. Miriam was ......
Masculinity, Anxiety, and the Male Body on the Line
Calvin Thomas's Male Matters reveals the act and production of writing as a bodily, material process that transgresses the boundaries of gender. Wise and quirky, sophisticated and coarse, serious and hilarious, this look at male identity and creativity and dislocation at the end of the twentieth century definitely will not assuage male ......
This is the first comprehensive overview of rockabilly, beginning with its crystallization as a distinct style in 1954 with Elvis Presley's first release. Presenting the who, what, where, and when of the music, Craig Morrison's lively account will bring back memories of ''Blue Suede Shoes,'' ''Be-Bop-A-Lula,'' Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, and ......
The New York Times Book Review has called Douglas L. Wilson ''the leading historian on the young and private Lincoln.'' The provocative selections in this book address topics as disparate as William H. Herndon and his informants, Lincoln's favorite poem, his mysterious broken engagement, the text of his debates with Stephen A. Douglas, and a ......
''I'd rather fail in story writing than succeed in anything else,'' Josephine Herbst declared in 1913. The Iowa native's Trexler family trilogy, with Pity Is Not Enough as its first volume, shows clearly that Herbst in fact succeeded at storytelling. The book draws loosely on Herbst's family history, using Reconstruction's demise in Georgia to ......
