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Description: The poet reflects on his life, including growing up Jewish in Pittsburgh, the literary scene in Paris during the 1950s, and his indignation over social injustices.
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Description: The 1920s literary magazine The Fugitive transformed Vanderbilt University into the home of New Criticism, spearheaded by a group of young poets. In Fugitive Days, author and professor Gerald Duff recalls meeting the poets, now older and accomplished, including Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Andrew Lytle. In these chance encounters, Duff finds the humanity in each—some ap...
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Description: When rookie sportswriter Roy Berman, covering at his first intercollegiate meet, observed varsity swimmer Marty Katz strut around the pool, he thought the undergraduate seemed a little too full of himself. That impression was later reinforced a dozen years later when the athlete reinserted himself into the now cardiologist's life as a pacemaker salesman driving an expensive German sports car while...
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Description: Born on a farm in Colorado during the Great Depression, Gerald Leischuck was determined to prepare himself for a career away from farming and caring for livestock. Encouraged by his parents to obtain an education that prepared himself for opportunities arising from a developing America, he studied to become a teacher and then was steered to graduate work, leading to the doctorate. Because of the C...
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Description: Charlie Carr is a ruthless T-man and hard nosed detective in the gutsy, no-nonesense tradition of Hammett and Chandler. Carr is hot on the trail of two thugs who have gunned down a young under cover agent - a torturous trail that will lead from the smoke-filled hangouts of sordid Chinatown, to a brutal blood drenched confrontation in a penthouse overlooing the streets of LA's seamy underworld.
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Description: This magisterial book is the first comprehensive interpretive and critical study of one of America's foremost philosophers and psychologists. Gerald Myers traces James's life and career and then uses this fresh biographical information to illuminate his writings and ideas.
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Description: This book has been prepared for the benefit of people who want the real truth concerning Huey P. Long, which truth has been kept from the public by authors, journalists, and historians. No book on the life of Huey Long has been accurate. All books that have been published concerning this great man have either been published by his enemies, his cynical observers or ignorant historians who have buil...
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