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The Allied victory in World War II relied on far more than courageous soldiers. Americans on the home front constantly supported the war effort in the form of factory work, war bond purchases, salvage drives, and morale-rallying efforts. Motivating these men, women, and children to keep doing their bit during the war was among the conflict's most urgent tasks. One of the most overlooked aspects of these efforts involved a surprising initiative - comic book propaganda. Even before Pearl Harbor, the comic book industry enlisted its formidable army of artists, writers, and editors to dramatize the conflict for readers of every age and interest. Comic book superheroes and everyday characters modeled positive behaviors and encouraged readers to keep scrapping. Ultimately those characters proved to be persuasive icons in the war's most colorful and indelible propaganda campaign. The 10 Cent War presents a riveting analysis of how different types of comic books and comic book characters supplied reasons and means to support the war effort. The contributors demonstrate that, free of government control, these appeals produced this overall imperative. The book discusses the role of such major characters as Superman, Wonder Woman, and Uncle Sam along with a host of such minor characters as kid gangs and superhero sidekicks. It even considers novelty and small presses, providing a well-rounded look at the many ways that comic books served as popular propaganda.
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• Acknowledgments Introduction Afrita Hanem, Henri Barakat, 1949 An American in Paris, Vincente Minnelli, 1951 Anchors Aweigh, George Sidney, 1945 Ansiedad, Miguel Zacarias, 1953 Applause, Rouben Mamoulian, 1929 The Band Wagon, Vincente Minnelli, 1953 Cabaret, Bob Fosse, 1972 Cabin in the Sky, Vincente Minnelli, 1943 Calamity Jane, David Butler, 1953 Car Wash, Michael Schultz, 1976 Carmen Jones, Otto Preminger, 1954 Carousel, Henry King, 1956 Cavalcade, Frank Lloyd, 1933 Chicago, Rob Marshall, 2002 Come On George!, Anthony Kimmins, 1939 Cover Girl, Charles Vidor, 1944 Dancer in the Dark, Lars von Trier, 2000 Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, Jacques Demy, 1967 Dil se!, Mani Ratnam, 1998 Die Dreigroschenoper, G.W. Pabst, 1931 Easter Parade, Charles Walters, 1948 Evergreen, Victor Saville, 1934 Flying Down to Rio, Thornton Freeland, 1933 Footlight Parade, Lloyd Bacon, 1933 Footloose, Herbert Ross, 1984 42nd Street, Lloyd Bacon, 1933 Funny Face, Stanley Donen, 1957 Funny Girl, William Wyler, 1968 The Gay Divorcee, Mark Sandrich, 1934 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Howard Hawks, 1953 The Girl Can't Help It, Frank Tashlin, 1956 Gold Diggers of 1933, Mervyn LeRoy, 1933 Golden Eighties, Chantal Akerman, 1986 Grease, Randal Kleiser, 1978 Guys and Dolls, Joseph L Mankiewicz, 1955 Hallelujah!, King Vidor, 1929 A Hard Day's Night, Richard Lester, 1964 The Harder they Come, Perry Henzell, 1972 High School Musical, Kenny Ortega, 2006 Holiday Inn, Mark Sandrich, 1942 8 femmes, Francois Ozon, 2002 It's Always Fair Weather, Gene Kelly/Stanley Donen, 1955 Jailhouse Rock, Richard Thorpe, 1957 Janken musume, Sugie Toshio, 1955 The Jazz Singer, Alan Crosland, 1927 Kiss Me Kate, George Sidney, 1953 Der Kongress tanzt, Erik Charel, 1931 Little Shop of Horrors, Frank Oz, 1986 The Littlest Rebel, David Butler, 1935 Love Me or Leave Me, Charles Vidor, 1955 Love Me Tonight, Rouben Mamoulian, 1932 The Love Parade, Ernst Lubitsch, 1929 Mary Poppins, Robert Stevenson, 1964 Meet Me in St Louis, Vincente Minnelli, 1944 The Merry Widow, Ernst Lubitsch, 1934 Le Million, Rene Clair, 1931 Moulin Rouge!, Baz Lurhman, 2001 The Music Man, Morton DaCosta, 1962 Nashville, Robert Altman, 1975 Naughty Marietta, Robert Z Leonard/W S van Dyke, 1935 New York, New York, Martin Scorsese, 1977 Oklahoma!, Fred Zinnemann, 1955 Oliver!, Carol Reed, 1968 One from the Heart, Francis Ford Coppola, 1982 One Hour with You, Ernst Lubitsch/George Cukor, 1932
• 100 Men and a Girl, Henry Koster, 1937 On the Town, Gene Kelly/Stanley Donen, 1949 Opera Jawa, Garin Nugroho, 2006 Original Cast Album: Company, D. A. Pennebaker, 1970 The Pajama Game, George Abbott/Stanley Donen, 1957 Pakeezah, Kamal Amrohi, 1972 Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, Jacques Demy, 1964 Pas sur la bouche, Alain Resnais, 2003 The Pirate, Vincente Minnelli, 1948 Pyaasa, Guru Dutt, 1957 The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Jim Sharman, 1975 Saturday Night Fever, John Badham, 1977 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Stanley Donen, 1954 Sholay, Ramesh Sippy, 1975 Show Boat, James Whale, 1936 Shree 420, Raj Kapoor, 1955 Silk Stockings, Rouben Mamoulian, 1957 Sing as We Go, Basil Dean, 1934 Singin' in the Rain, Gene Kelly/Stanley Donen, 1952 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, David Hand, 1937 The Sound of Music, Robert Wise, 1965 A Star is Born, George Cukor, 1954 Stormy Weather, Andrew L. Stone, 1943 Summer Holiday, Rouben Mamoulian, 1948 Swing Time, George Stevens, 1936 Top Hat, Mark Sandrich, 1935 True Stories, David Byrne, 1986 Viktor und Viktoria, Reinhold Schunzle, 1933 Volga-Volga, Grigori Aleksandrov, 1938 West Side Story, Robert Wise/Jerome Robbins, 1961 The Wizard of Oz, Victor Fleming, 1939 Yankee Doodle Dandy, Michael Curtiz, 1942 You and Me, Fritz Lang, 1938 Ziegfeld Follies, Vincente Minnelli et al, 1946 Zouzou, Marc Allegret, 1934 References Further Reading Index.
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i"?From the coming of sound to the 1960s, the musical was central to Hollywood production. Exhibiting -- often in spectacular fashion -- the remarkable resources of the Hollywood studios, musicals came to epitomise the very idea of 'light entertainment'. Films like Top Hat and 42nd Street, Meet Me in St. Louis and On the Town, Singin' in the Rain and Oklahoma!, West Side Story and The Sound of Music were hugely popular, yet were commonly regarded by cultural commentators as trivial and escapist. It was the 1970s before serious study of the Hollywood musical began to change critical attitudes and foster an interest in musical films produced in other cultures. Hollywood musicals have become less common, but the genre persists and both academic interest in and fond nostalgia for the musical shows no signs of abating. 100 Film Musicals provides a stimulating overview of the genre's development, its major themes and the critical debates it has provoked. While centred on the dominant Hollywood tradition, 100 Film Musicals includes films from countries that often tried to emulate the Hollywood style, like Britain and Germany, as well as from very different cultures like India, Egypt and Japan. Jim Hillier and Douglas Pye also discuss post-1960s films from many different sources which adapt and reflect on the conventions of the genre, including recent examples such as Moulin Rouge! and High School Musical, demonstrating that the genre is still very much alive.
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A hundred years ago, any soapbox orator who called for women's suffrage, laws protecting the environment, an end to lynching, or a federal minimum wage was considered a utopian dreamer or a dangerous socialist. Now we take these ideas for granted because the radical ideas of one generation are often the common sense of the next. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of radicals and reformers who challenged the status quo of their day. Unfortunately, most Americans know little of this progressive history. It isn't taught in most high schools. You can't find it on the major television networks. In popular media, the most persistent interpreter of America's radical past is Glenn Beck, who teaches viewers a wildly inaccurate history of unions, civil rights, and the American Left.The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century, a colorful and witty history of the most influential progressive leaders of the twentieth century and beyond, is the perfect antidote.
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Profiles and reading lists for 100 of today's hottest fiction writers Genre authors, like genre fiction, are often ignored by traditional biographical dictionaries. Yet genre fans hunger for information about their favourite writers. This compilation focuses exclusively on genre fiction authors, more specifically today's most popular genre authors. It profiles representatives from all major genres (mystery/detective, crime, adventure/suspense, thriller, horror, fantasy, science fiction, western, historical, women's, and romance). Most are contemporary authors, but a few classics still in print and widely read (e.g., J.R.R. Tolkien for fantasy, James Michener for historical), are included. Featured authors include Julia Alvarez, Maeve Binchy, Lawrence Block, Clive Cussler, Tony Hillerman, Jan Karon, Faye Kellerman, Dean Koontz, Charles de Lint, Robert Ludlum, Terry McMillan, Anne Rice, Nora Roberts, Scott Turow, and Stuart Woods. In addition to information about the personal and writing lives of this fascinating and diverse group, users will find a complete list of their published works - fiction and nonfiction. Author photos accompany many of the profiles as well. A wonderful reference work, particularly for readers' advisors and adult and teenage readers seeking information about their favourite writers, this book can also be used as a source for student reports and research papers. It is an affordable alternative to multi-volume sets. Profiles popular authors who are often ignored in biographical works Includes author biographies and complete lists of their published works.
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Drawing on 100 never-before-published interviews, Scott McConnell presents a unique portrait of a larger-than-life literary giant and a fascinating individual, Ayn Rand. Focusing on the private Rand, McConnell talked to the author's family, friends, fans, and associates, as well as Hollywood stars, university professors, fiction writers, and many more. Arranged in chronological order, these interviews cover a broad range of years, contexts, relationships, and observations on one of the most influential- and controversial-figures of the twentieth century. From Ayn Rand's youngest sister to the woman who inspired the character of Peter Keating in The Fountainhead, the subjects interviewed offer fresh, sometimes surprisingly candid, affectionate, and intriguing insights into a complex and remarkable writer, philosopher, and human being.
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This follow-up to the Harley Davidson centennial book of 2002 takes the reader through a century of Harley Davidson's witty and eye-catching print advertisements. The colourful and sometimes provocative print ads reflect the creative spirit and unique culture of Harley Davidson; the decade-by-decade presentation reveals how Harley has remained in tune with the times - and often ahead of its time - over the 20th century. From the "Gee Dad! Buy Me A Harley Davidson" campaign of the 1920s to "I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar" in the 80s, the book should entertain Harley fanatics and collectors of Americana alike.
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"Scholar and theater aficionado Marvin Carlson has seen an unsurpassed number of theatrical productions in his long and distinguished career. 10,000 Nights is a lively chronicle of a half-century of theatre-going, in which Carlson recalls one memorable production for each year from 1960 to 2010. These are not conventional reviews, but essays using each theater experience to provide an insight into the theater and theatre-going at a particular time. The range of performances covered is broad, from edgy experimental fare to mainstream musicals, most of them based in New York but with stops at major theater events in Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Milan, and elsewhere. The pieces convey a vivid sense not only of each production but also of the particular venue, neighborhood, and cultural context, covering nearly all significant movements, theater artists, and groups of the late twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.

Cruise book of the 114th Construction Batallion documenting their posting to Kodiak, Alaska, where they were assigned to rebuild port facilities on Attu Island in the Aleutians

• Part I: Peace
• Zing-a-Zing!
• Emergency Mode
• Scientific Spies
• The Wizard
• Section Tuve
• Choice Overload
• Uncanny Days
• Peenemünde
• Don't Slow Down
• Prying Eyes
• Escalation
• Part II: War
• Ready or Not
• No Alibis
• Dr. Jones's Raid
• The Garage
• Three Runs, Three Hits
• Into the Fleet
• New Tricks
• Cherry Stone
• A London Fuse
• AMNIARIX
• Part III: Victory
• Ski Shapes
• Ranch Country
• Chemical Boys
• Things Carried
• Wachtel is Hiding
• A Comet Gone Wrong
• "Turkey Shoot"
• Ack Ack Girls
• A Cold Winter
• Tug of War
• Downtime

"The riveting story of the American scientists, tinkerers, and nerds who solved one of the biggest puzzles of World War II-and developed one of the most powerful weapons of the war."-- Provided by publisher

• Foreword / by Maj. Gen. Thomas G. Darling
• Defender of Corregidor: George F. Moore, class of 1908
• Father of Fort Hood: Andrew D. Bruce, class of 1916
• Doolittle raider: John A. Hilger, class of 1932
• Rangers lead the way: James E. Rudder, class of 1932
• Flying Tiger ace: David L. "Tex" Hill, class of 1932
• Battlefield and Congressional tiger: Olin E. "Tiger" Teague, class of 1932
• Highpockets, one tough Marine: Raymond L. Murray, class of 1935
• Sole survivor of Torpedo Squadron
• 8: George H. Gay Jr., class of 1940
• Danger 79er: James F. Hollingsworth, class of 1940
• Aggie ace of aces: Jay T. Robbins, class of 1940
• Kyle Field star, battlefield hero: Marion C. Pugh, class of 1941
• Three tours are enough: Robert L. Acklen Jr., class of 1963.

Following on the success of Texas Aggie Medals of Honor, James R. Woodall now returns with a new book that focuses on the military service by graduates of Texas A&M University from World War I to Vietnam. Of the tens of thousands of Aggies who served in the nation's military, Woodall has selected twelve individuals who stand out as singular examples of bravery and heroism. Twelve Texas Aggie War Heroes tells each serviceman's story in a concise, engaging manner. Some subjects, such as Earl Rudder and James Hollingsworth, will be familiar to readers. But Woodall also introduces us to less familiar but no less notable men as well, from A. D. Bruce's march from the trenches of France and the crossing of the Rhine in World War I to Bob Acklen's three tours in Vietnam. In addition to the twelve chapters focusing on these remarkable individuals, Woodall provides an extensive set of appendixes that include the relevant citations for each serviceman as well as larger lists of Aggies who were awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, Navy Cross, or Air Force Cross.
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• Adam's living room
• Adam
• Studio window
• Berkeley rooftops
• Studio door
• Cybele at the table
• Bill's back yard
• Elwood's house
• Long fence
• Burniece's porch
• Law office
• Berkeley yards
• Interior with William
• Nate's house
• Deck
• Cybele and William.

• Introduction / Jude LeBlanc
• Place between / Robert Dripps and Lucia Phinney
• Of type and thing / Ellen Dunham-Jones.

• Legal medicine
• The sunny street of the sifted few
• Marriage and the aftermath
• The crime doctor
• Kindred spirits
• The medial school
• The three-legged stool
• Captain Lee
• In a nutshell
• Murder at Harvard
• The decline and falls
• Postmortem.

"Frances Glessner Lee, born a socialite to a wealthy and influential Chicago family in the 1870s, was never meant to have a career, let alone one steeped in death and depravity. Yet she developed a fascination with the investigation of violent crimes and made it her life's work. Best known for creating the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, a series of dioramas that appear charming-until you notice the macabre little details: an overturned chair, a blood-spattered comforter. And then, of course, there are the bodies-splayed out on the floor, draped over chairs-clothed in garments that Lee lovingly knit with sewing pins. Lee developed a system that used the Nutshells dioramas to train law enforcement officers to investigate violent crimes, and her methods are still used today. 18 Tiny Deaths is the story of a woman who overcame the limitations and expectations imposed by her social status and pushed forward an entirely new branch of science that we still use today"-- Provided by publisher.

• Series Foreword-- Timeline of Popular Culture-- Preface-- Introduction-- Everyday America-- World of Youth-- Advertising-- Architecture-- Fads, Games, Toys, Hobbies, and Sports-- Fashion-- Food-- Literature-- Music-- Performing Arts-- Travel-- Visual Arts-- Cost of Products During the 1900s.
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An in-depth examination of the explosive changes in the world of American life and culture during the period 1900-1910. The years 1900-1910 have been thought of as the "quiet decade, " but as this in-depth examination of the culture of the decade shows, they were anything but quiet. Spurred on by the energy and progressive attitude of President Theodore Roosevelt, and the explosive population growth that brought millions of immigrants to our cities, the decade wrought great cultural and technological changes in American life. A healthy economy gave workers more spending money and leisure time to enjoy hobbies, travel, and entertainment including the newest form of entertainment, the movies. Grounding the cultural developments in the social and historical context of the time, this work provides an exciting picture of American life in the first decade of the 20th century. More than 40 photographs and illustrations from the time illuminate the text. Covered are innovations in technology, such as the airplane and the automobile, which later revolutionized American life; the coming of age of "modern" architecture; the proliferation of advertising to reach the new middle class; the fads, games, sports, and hobbies of the age; changes in fashion and cuisine; and the burgeoning of the arts--the school of realism and naturalism in literature, the first truly American music, jazz, and the new performing art that played to American tastes, vaudeville. A wealth of facts, information, and interesting sidelights not available elsewhere makes this work a treasure trove for students and interested readers.
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• Introduction-- Timeline of Popular Culture-- Everyday America-- World of Youth-- Advertising-- Architecture-- Fashion-- Food-- Games and Toys, Fads and Hobbies, Recreations and Sports-- Literature-- Music-- Performing Arts-- Travel-- Visual Arts-- Cost of Products-- Further Reading-- Index.
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This debut volume in Greenwood's exciting new "American Popular Culture Through History" series presents a narrative-based tour through the pivotal decade of the 1910s in America. The decade of the 1910s saw the United States rise above strictly European cultural influences as the mixing of race, ethnicity, class, and gender yielded colorful fusions within American society. Historian David Blanke delves into the cornucopia of activities, trends, and events that shaped and enriched the day-to-day lives of Americans in this decade. Twelve scrupulously researched chapters bring to life all of the important aspects of popular culture in 1910s America: from Birth of a Nation to the "Black Sox" scandal, the Teddy Bear to Tarzan, breakfast cereal to the first brassiere. This lead title in Greenwood's forthcoming "American Popular Culture Through History" series shows the many facets of American society merging to form the beginnings of the United States' eclectic 20th century culture. This debut volume launches a series designed to be advanced yet accessible, informative yet fun. Students researching the history of American art, film, literature, music, and sports will be taken beyond the names and dates in their textbooks and learn about the interests, styles, and tastes of past Americans. Series volumes will also include a timeline of significant cultural events as well as a cost comparison list of commonly used items. This valuable reference resource will introduce students to things, activities, and people that enriched and defined the lives of Americans in the seminal years of 1910 to 1919. These collages of culture will enrich the research of high school or college students and help them see how Americans' lives, aspirations, dreams, even the idea of what it is to be American, have evolved in the past--and will continue to change in the future.
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• Introduction--
• 1. World War I and the New Negro movement--
• 2. 'We return fighting': the first wave of armed resistance--
• 3. Fighting a mob in uniform: armed resistance in Washington, DC--
• 4. Blood in the streets: armed resistance in Chicago--
• 5. Armed resistance to the courthouse mobs--
• 6. Armed resistance to economic exploitation in Arkansas, Indiana, and Louisiana--
• 7. 'It is my only protection': federal and state efforts to disarm African Americans--
• 8. The fight for justice: the arrests and trials of black and white rioters--
• 9. The fight for justice: the death penalty cases--
• 10. Fighting Judge Lynch-- Conclusion: 1919's aftermath and its importance in the black freedom struggle.
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1919, The Year of Racial Violence recounts African Americans' brave stand against a cascade of mob attacks in the United States after World War I. The emerging New Negro identity, which prized unflinching resistance to second-class citizenship, further inspired veterans and their fellow black citizens. In city after city - Washington, DC; Chicago; Charleston; and elsewhere - black men and women took up arms to repel mobs that used lynching, assaults, and other forms of violence to protect white supremacy; yet, authorities blamed blacks for the violence, leading to mass arrests and misleading news coverage. Refusing to yield, African Americans sought accuracy and fairness in the courts of public opinion and the law. This is the first account of this three-front fight - in the streets, in the press, and in the courts - against mob violence during one of the worst years of racial conflict in US history.
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• An amazing event
• Women get the vote
• The red summer
• The red scare
• Strikes and more strikes
• A noble experiment
• A year that changed America
• Further reading and surging
• Sources

"Some of the most important issues of our time were no less important 100 years ago. America in 1919, at the close of World War I, was shaken from the events of large-scale warfare, fearing a Communist takeover, and facing an incredible amount of social and political change. From Prohibition to women's suffrage, the labor strikes to the violence of the Red Summer and the Red Scare, this book explores each major movement of 1919. Showing how these events were interrelated and examining their continued relevance to our country a century later, Martin Sandler offers a unique historical perspective on the trajectory of the major movements of the 20th century. Showing readers how every current event has unique and fascinating history preceding it, this book will help them better understand the world they live in and the change many still seek today, offering educators a framework for discussing historical perspective and progress"-- Provided by publisher

The presidential election of 1920 was one of the most dramatic ever. For the only time in the nation's history, six once-and-future presidents hoped to end up in the White House: Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, and Theodore Roosevelt. It was an election that saw unprecedented levels of publicity the Republicans outspent the Democrats by 4 to 1 and it was the first to garner extensive newspaper and newsreel coverage. It was also the first election in which women could vote. Meanwhile, the 1920 census showed that America had become an urban nation automobiles, mass production, chain stores, and easy credit were transforming the economy and America was limbering up for the most spectacular decade of its history, the roaring '20s. Award-winning historian David Pietrusza's riveting new work presents a dazzling panorama of presidential personalities, ambitions, plots, and counterplots a picture of modern America at the crossroads.
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At the dawn of the roaring twenties, baseball was struggling to overcome two of its darkest moments: the death of a player during a Major League game and the revelations of the 1919 Black Sox scandal. At this critical juncture for baseball, two teams emerged to fight for the future of the game. They were also battling for the hearts and minds of New Yorkers as the city rose in dramatic fashion to the pinnacle of the baseball world. "1921" captures this crucial moment in the history of baseball, telling the story of a season that pitted the New York Yankees against their Polo Grounds landlords and hated rivals, John McGraw's Giants, in the first all-New York Series and resulted in the first American League pennant for the now-storied Yankees' franchise. Lyle Spatz and Steve Steinberg recreate the drama that featured the charismatic Babe Ruth in his assault on baseball records in the face of McGraw's disdain for the American League and the Ruth-led slugging style. Their work evokes the early 1920s with the words of renowned sportswriters such as Damon Runyon, Grantland Rice, and Heywood Broun. With more than fifty photographs, the book offers a remarkably vivid picture of the colourful characters, the cross-town rivalry, and the incomparable performances that made this series a classic.
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At the dawn of the roaring twenties, baseball was struggling to overcome two of its darkest moments: the death of a player during a game and the revelations of the 1919 Black Sox scandal. At this critical juncture for baseball, the two teams that emerged to fight for the future of the game were also battling for the hearts and minds of New Yorkers as the city dramatically rose to the pinnacle of the baseball world. 1921 tells the story of a season that pitted the New York Yankees against their Polo Grounds landlords and hated rivals, John McGraw's Giants, in the first all New York City World Series. Lyle Spatz and Steve Steinberg re-create the drama that featured the charismatic Babe Ruth in his assault on baseball records in the face of McGraw's disdain for the American League and the Ruth-led slugging style. Their work evokes the early 1920s with the words of renowned sportswriters such as Damon Runyon, Grantland Rice, and Heywood Broun, and with more than fifty photographs, offering a vivid picture of the colourful characters, the cross-town rivalry, and the incomparable performances of this classic season.
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• List of Illustrations Foreword by Charles C. Alexander Preface Acknowledgments
• Part 1. The Preseason
• 1. Prelude to the World Series
• 2. Baseball Confronts the Black Sox Scandal
• 3. The Shady Side of Baseball's Flagship Franchise
• 4. Ruppert and Huston Arrive, Ready to "Go to the Limit"
• 5. "You can't compare him with anybody else. He's Babe Ruth."
• 6. The Giants Fail to Get Rogers Hornsby
• 7. Ed Barrow Comes to New York
• 8. "We fear only Cleveland"
• 9. "I do not fear any club in the National League"
• Part 2. The Season
• 10. "My job is to knock 'em a mile"
• 11. "This home run business is being carried too far"
• 12. The Trials and Tribulations of John McGraw
• 13. Cobb and Speaker Await as the Yankees Head West
• 14. "The Yanks are the best worst team in either league"
• 15. Setbacks on the Road and in the Commissioner's Office
• 16. The Giants Solidify Their Lineup
• 17. "You can't play your outfielders in the middle of the next block"
• 18. Lay off Huggins and Hope Nothing Happens to the Babe
• 19. A Terrible August for the Giants . . . So Far
• 20. "Let's go get 'em while the getting's good"
• 21. "It is no time in which to count McGraw and his men out of any race"
• 22. Ascent to First and Then a Demoralizing Loss
• 23. "It was the greatest game ever played"
• 24. The Giants Clinch and the Repercussions Get Ugly
• 25. A Pennant for the Yankees, At Last
• Part 3. The Postseason
• 26. Prelude to the World Series,
• Part 2
• 27. Game 1, Wednesday, October
• 5: "Who said the Yanks were slow and clumsy and dull?"
• 28. Game 2, Thursday, October
• 6: The Yankees Again Win with an Inside Game
• 29. Game 3, Friday, October
• 7: The Giants' Offense Comes Alive
• 30. Game 4, Sunday, October
• 9: The Giants Finally Get to Carl Mays, or So It Seems
• 31. Game 5, Monday, October
• 10: Ruth's Gameness and Hoyt's Guts
• 32. Game 6, Tuesday, October
• 11: The Series Is Evened, but without Ruth--Is It Really Even?
• 33. Game 7, Wednesday, October
• 12: "Give me another game against those Yankees, and they'll get even less"
• 34. Game 8, Thursday, October
• 13: "New York and baseball are proud of the Yanks and the Giants" Epilogue
• Appendix 1. 1921 Yankees and Giants Regular Season Batting and Pitching
• Appendix 2. 1921 AL and NL Batting and Pitching Leaders
• Appendix 3. 1921 World Series Box Scores
• Appendix 4. 1921 Yankees and Giants World Series Batting and Pitching Notes Bibliography Index.
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At the dawn of the roaring twenties, baseball was struggling to overcome two of its darkest moments: the death of a player during a game and the revelations of the 1919 Black Sox scandal. At this critical juncture for baseball, the two teams that emerged to fight for the future of the game were also battling for the hearts and minds of New Yorkers as the city dramatically rose to the pinnacle of the baseball world. 1921 tells the story of a season that pitted the New York Yankees against their Polo Grounds landlords and hated rivals, John McGraw's Giants, in the first all-New York City World Series. Lyle Spatz and Steve Steinberg re-create the drama that featured the charismatic Babe Ruth in his assault on baseball records in the face of McGraw's disdain for the American League and the Ruth-led slugging style. Their work evokes the early 1920s with the words of renowned sportswriters such as Damon Runyon, Grantland Rice, and Heywood Broun, and with more than fifty photographs, offering a vivid picture of the colorful characters, the crosstown rivalry, and the incomparable performances of this classic season.
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• The search for modern America
• Seeking mastery: the machine age and the idealized past
• Seeking equality: feminism and flood waters
• Seeking notoriety: the infamous and the famous
• Seeking respectability: modern media and traditional values
• The search for American culture.

When Charles Lindbergh landed at LeBourget Airfield on May 21, 1927, his transatlantic flight symbolized the new era - not only in aviation but also in American culture. The 1920s proved to be a transitional decade for the United States, shifting the nation from a production-driven economy to a consumption-based one, with adventurous citizens breaking new ground even as many others continued clinging to an outmoded status quo. In his new book, Charles Shindo reveals how one year in particular encapsulated the complexity of this transformation in American culture. Shindo's absorbing look at 1927 shatters the stereotypes of the Roaring '20s as a time of frivolity and excess, revealing instead a society torn between holding on to its glorious past while trying to navigate a brave new world. His book is a compelling and entertaining dissection of the year that has come to represent the apex of 1920s culture, combining references from popular films, music, literature, sports, and politics in a captivating look back at change in the making. As Shindo notes, while Lindbergh's flight was a defining event, there were others: The Jazz Singer, for example, brought sound to the movies, and the 15 millionth Model T rolled off of Ford's assembly line. Meanwhile, the era's supposed live-for-today frivolity was clouded by Prohibition, the revival of the Ku Klux Klan, and the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. Such events, Shindo explains, reflected a fundamental disquiet running beneath the surface of a nation seeking to accommodate and understand a broad array of changes - from new technology to natural disasters, from women's forays into the electorate to African-Americans' migration to the urban north. Shindo, however, also notes that this was an era of celebrity. He not only examines why Lindbergh and Ford were celebrated but also considers the rise and growing popularity of the infamous, like convicted murderers Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray, and he illuminates the explosive growth of professional sports and stars like baseball's Babe Ruth. In addition, he takes a close look at cinematic heroines like Mary Pickford and the 'It' girl Clara Bow to demonstrate the conflicting images of women in popular culture. Distinctive and insightful, Shindo's richly detailed analysis of 1927's key events and personalities reveals the multifaceted ways in which people actually came to grips with change and learned to embrace an increasingly modern America.
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• Introduction Hasia R. Diner and Gennady EstraikhPart I: Global Ties 1 Living Locally, Organizing Nationally, and Thinking Globally: The View from the United StatesHasia R. Diner 2 Jewish Diplomacy at a Crossroads David Engel 3 The Stalinist "Great Break" in Yiddishland Gennady Estraikh 4 Permanent Transit 5 Polish Jewry, American Jewish Immigrant Philanthropy, and the Crisis of 1929Rebecca Kobrin 6 Jewish American Philanthropy and the Crisis of 1929Rakefet Zalashik 7 Territorialism and the ICOR "American Commission of Scientists and Experts" to the Soviet Far EastHenry SrebrnikPart II: Local Stories 8 From Universal Values to Cultural Representations Avner Ben-Zaken 9 The Struggle over Yiddish in Postimmigrant America Eric L. Goldstein 10 When the Local Trumps the GlobalJeffrey LesserPart III: Literature 11 Patterning a New LifeGabriella Safran 12 David VogelGlenda Abramson 13 Radical Conservatism Joseph Sherman 14 Desire, Destiny, and DeathMikhail KrutikovIndex Contributors.
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Winner of the 2014 National Jewish Book Award, Anthologies and Collections The year 1929 represents a major turning point in interwar Jewish society, proving to be a year when Jews, regardless of where they lived, saw themselves affected by developments that took place around the world, as the crises endured by other Jews became part of the transnational Jewish consciousness. In the United States, the stock market crash brought lasting economic, social, and ideological changes to the Jewish community and limited its ability to support humanitarian and nationalist projects in other countries. In Palestine, the anti-Jewish riots in Hebron and other towns underscored the vulnerability of the Zionist enterprise and ignited heated discussions among various Jewish political groups about the wisdom of establishing a Jewish state on its historical site. At the same time, in the Soviet Union, the consolidation of power in the hands of Stalin created a much more dogmatic climate in the international Communist movement, including its Jewish branches. Featuring a sparkling array of scholars of Jewish history, 1929 surveys the Jewish world in one year offering clear examples of the transnational connections which linked Jews to each other-from politics, diplomacy, and philanthropy to literature, culture, and the fate of Yiddish-regardless of where they lived. Taken together, the essays in 1929 argue that, whether American, Soviet, German, Polish, or Palestinian, Jews throughout the world lived in a global context.
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• Part I. Global ties
• Part II. Local srories
• Part III. Literature.

The year 1929 represents a major turning point in interwar Jewish society, proving to be a year when Jews, regardless of where they lived, saw themselves affected by developments that took place around the world, as the crises endured by other Jews became part of the transnational Jewish consciousness. In the United States, the stock market crash brought lasting economic, social, and ideological changes to the Jewish community and limited its ability to support humanitarian and nationalist projects in other countries. In Palestine, the anti-Jewish riots in Hebron and other towns underscored the vulnerability of the Zionist enterprise and ignited heated discussions among various Jewish political groups about the wisdom of establishing a Jewish state on its historical site. At the same time, in the Soviet Union, the consolidation of power in the hands of Stalin created a much more dogmatic climate in the international Communist movement, including its Jewish branches. Featuring a sparkling array of scholars of Jewish history, 1929 surveys the Jewish world in one year offering clear examples of the transnational connections which linked Jews to each other - from politics, diplomacy, and philanthropy to literature, culture, and the fate of Yiddish - regardless of where they lived. Taken together, the essays in 1929 argue that, whether American, Soviet, German, Polish, or Palestinian, Jews throughout the world lived in a global context. Hasia Diner is Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. She is the author of the award-winning We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962 (NYU Press, 2009). Gennady Estraikh is Associate Professor of Yiddish Studies, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University.
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• Introduction-- Timeline, 1930-1939-- Everyday America-- The World of Youth-- Advertising-- Architecture and Design-- Fashion-- Food and Drink-- Leisure Activities-- Literature-- Music-- Performing Arts-- Travel and Recreation-- Visual Arts-- Timeline, 1930-1939-- Costs of Products-- Bibliography-- Index.
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This textured look at 1930s American culture provides a cost comparison of common goods and services, a timeline of important events, notes arranged by chapter, an extensive bibliography for further reading, and a subject index. Most historical studies bury us in wars and politics, paying scant attention to the everyday effects of pop culture. Welcome to America's other history-the arts, activities, common items, and popular opinions that profoundly impacted our national way of life. This textured look at 1930s American culture provides a cost comparison of common goods and services, a timeline of important events, notes arranged by chapter, an extensive bibliography for further reading, and a subject index. The dark cloud of the Depression shadowed most American's lives during the 1930s. Books, movies, songs, and stories of the 1930s gave Americans something to hope for by depicting a world of luxury and money. Major figures of the age included Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Irving Berlin, Amelia Earhart, Duke Ellington, the Marx Brothers, Margaret Mitchell, Cole Porter, Joe Louis, Babe Ruth, Shirley Temple, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Innovations in technology and travel hinted at a Utopian society just off the horizon, group sports and activities gave the unemployed masses ways to spend their days, and a powerful new demographic--the American teenager--suddenly found itself courted by advertisers and entertainers.
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In 2010, Hofstra University celebrated its 75th anniversary, inviting scholars to the campus to discuss the world as it was in the year Hofstra was founded. The conference "1935: The Reality and the Promise" provided a wide-ranging exploration of the 1930s with presentations, discussions, and events highlighting the arts, entertainment, society, politics, literature, and science in that momentous decade. This volume encompasses a selection of the most interesting and enlightening papers from this conference, providing both depth and breadth of coverage. By any measure, the 1930s was a pivotal decade in modern history - a time when the reality of current events and the foreshadowing of events to come tempered all promise. The tension between reality and promise is a recurrent theme in the chapters brought together here, as well as in the personalities and faces that came to define this decade.
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What do Babes in Arms, Beau Geste, Gunga Din, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Only Angels Have Wings, and Young Mr. Lincoln all have in common? They are all classic films released in the same year, but none of them received Academy Award nominations for best picture. Why? In that same year, Hollywood produced Dark Victory, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and Ninotchka, as well as two of the most beloved films of all time, Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz. In 1939 Hollywood created an unprecedented number of great films, a year that has yet to be surpassed in cinematic achievement. In 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year, Thomas S. Hischak looks at the most remarkable 365 days in film history. Arranged chronologically from January 1 to December 31, 1939, each entry covers one day and features major news events (national and international) as well as minor curiosities or news items that would prove to be more important in the future. The activities on Broadway, radio, the music business, literature, and other arts are included, as are noteworthy sporting events. Most significantly, this book provides a full description and commentary on the Hollywood movies that were released on that day. All 510 feature films from all the Hollywood studios are included in the book, along with notable shorts, cartoons, newsreels, and foreign releases. While others have looked at the movie highlights of this momentous year, Hischak evaluates Hollywood's entire screen output of 1939, from B pictures and serial installments to the international blockbusters-and every film in between. 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year is a captivating look at this phenomenon and will fascinate any film aficionado.
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• Mystery in the White House
• George Washington and Franklin Roosevelt: duty or ambition?
• Walking on eggs
• Lindbergh and the shrimps
• Isolationists: the war within
• Dark horse
• Home run for the White House
• The Republicans in Philadelphia
• Roosevelt's game
• The Democrats in Chicago
• Willkie runs alone
• An army of citizen soldiers
• Campaigning 101
• Enter Robert Sherwood
• Franklin and Joe
• The fifth column
• Final days, final words
• Safe at third
• Roosevelt and Willkie: almost a team
• Roosevelt and Willkie vs. Lindbergh
• Epilogue: one nation indivisible.

In 1940, against the explosive backdrop of the Nazi onslaught in Europe, two farsighted candidates for the U.S. presidency-Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, running for an unprecedented third term, and talented Republican businessman Wendell Willkie-found themselves on the defensive against American isolationists and their charismatic spokesman Charles Lindbergh, who called for surrender to Hitler's demands. In this dramatic account of that turbulent and consequential election, historian Susan Dunn brings to life the debates, the high-powered players, and the dawning awareness of the Nazi threat as the presidential candidates engaged in their own battle for supremacy. 1940 not only explores the contest between FDR and Willkie but also examines the key preparations for war that went forward, even in the midst of that divisive election season. The book tells an inspiring story of the triumph of American democracy in a world reeling from fascist barbarism, and it offers a compelling alternative scenario to today's hyperpartisan political arena, where common ground seems unattainable.
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• Mystery in the White House
• George Washington and Franklin Roosevelt: duty or ambition?
• Walking on eggs
• Lindbergh and the shrimps
• Isolationists: the war within
• Dark horse
• Home run for the White House
• The Republicans in Philadelphia
• Roosevelt's game
• The Democrats in Chicago
• Willkie runs alone
• An army of citizen soldiers
• Campaigning 101
• Enter Robert Sherwood
• Franklin and Joe
• The fifth column
• Final days, final words
• Safe at third
• Roosevelt and Willkie: almost a team
• Roosevelt and Willkie vs. Lindbergh
• Epilogue: one nation indivisible.

In 1940, against the explosive backdrop of the Nazi onslaught in Europe, two farsighted candidates for the U.S. presidency-Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, running for an unprecedented third term, and talented Republican businessman Wendell Willkie-found themselves on the defensive against American isolationists and their charismatic spokesman Charles Lindbergh, who called for surrender to Hitler's demands. In this dramatic account of that turbulent and consequential election, historian Susan Dunn brings to life the debates, the high-powered players, and the dawning awareness of the Nazi threat as the presidential candidates engaged in their own battle for supremacy. 1940 not only explores the contest between FDR and Willkie but also examines the key preparations for war that went forward, even in the midst of that divisive election season. The book tells an inspiring story of the triumph of American democracy in a world reeling from fascist barbarism, and it offers a compelling alternative scenario to today's hyperpartisan political arena, where common ground seems unattainable.
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• Preserving a community's history: the evolution of the Japanese American Museum of San Jose / by Steve Fugita
• Opening the past: the suitcase as symbol in Flo Oy Wong's 1942 : Luggage from home to camp / by Kristine Kim
• Silence's past: the retrieval of history and memory for Japanese and Chinese Americans / by Wendy Ng -- The comfort of music at Poston / by Lola Tanaka Abe -- The blue dress / by Elsie Mayeda Honda
• Fields of berries / by David M. Sakai
• Taking photos at Heart Mountain / by Eiichi Edward Sakauye -- A larger family at camp / by Esau Shimizu -- The paper bouquet / by Misao Yamano Shiotsuka.

• The sphinx
• Spring 1944 : everything all at once. Tehran ; "I want to sleep and sleep twelve hours a day" ; Escape,
• part 1 ; Escape,
• part 2 ; "This is the year 1944" ; "Could we be granted victory this year, 1944?"
• The road to
• 1944. Beginnings ; Mills of the gods ; Giant cemeteries ; Riegner ; 1943 ; "The acquiescence of this government in the murder of Jews"
• The fateful decision. Trapped between knowing and not knowing ; The wind and the silence
• 1945
• Reckoning.

It was not inevitable that World War II would end as it did, or that it would even end well. 1944 was a year that could have stymied the Allies and cemented Hitler's waning power. Instead, it saved those democracies-but with a fateful cost. 1944 witnessed a series of titanic events: FDR at the pinnacle of his wartime leadership as well as his re-election, the planning of Operation Overlord with Churchill and Stalin, the unprecedented D-Day invasion, the liberation of Paris and the horrific Battle of the Bulge, and the tumultuous conferences that finally shaped the coming peace. But on the way, millions of more lives were still at stake as President Roosevelt was exposed to mounting evidence of the most grotesque crime in history, the Final Solution. Just as the Allies were landing in Normandy, the Nazis were accelerating the killing of millions of European Jews. Winik shows how escalating pressures fell on an all but dying Roosevelt, whose rapidly deteriorating health was a closely guarded secret. Here then, as with D-Day, was a momentous decision for the president. Was winning the war the best way to rescue the Jews? Was a rescue even possible? Or would it get in the way of defeating Hitler? In a year when even the most audacious undertakings were within the world's reach, including the liberation of Europe, one challenge-saving Europe's Jews-seemed to remain beyond Roosevelt's grasp. Winik provides a stunningly fresh look at the twentieth century's most pivotal year. 1944: FDR and the Year that Changed History is the first book to tell these events with such moral clarity and unprecedented sweep, and a moving appreciation of the extraordinary struggles of the era's outsized figures.
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• Introduction: Planning the postwar architect
• The culture of planning : the rhetoric and imagery of home front anticipation
• Old cities, new frontiers : mature economy theory and the language of renewal
• Advertising nothing, anticipating nowhere : architects and consumer culture
• The end of planning : the building boom and the invention of normalcy
• Afterword
• Appendix: Wartime advertising campaigns.

本书收录了侯祥麟, 罗沛霖, 鲍文奎, 王守武, 王启东, 徐亦庄, 谢希德, 梅祖彦, 陈荣悌, 李恒德等28位1950年代归国留学科学家的访谈录.

Journey back fifty years to explore the decade of baby boomers, the Red scare, and the birth of rock and roll with Robert Rodriguez's The 1950s' Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Rock & Roll Rebels, Cold War Crises, and All-American Oddities. America was revving its engines when the fifties came along, and its citizens more than ready for everything the historic decade had to offer. Rodriguez takes you on a spin down memory lane with dozens of top-ten lists filled with amazing, amusing, and even astonishing trivia from the 1950s. Television exploded into the mainstream in the 1950s, and in this book you'll find kids'television, shows that were immensely popular then but forgotten now, and potential series that never got off the ground. Film and music history are also well represented, with lists highlighting the fathers of rock and roll and some unlikely recording artists, plus catchphrases from contemporary films and first roles of future stars. Relive the most notorious crimes of the decade, such as the one that inspired the TV show and film The Fugitive, and its big scandals, such as the quiz show debacle and the deportation of Charlie Chaplin. You'll read about politicians, celebrities, fashion, toys, fads, and disasters. Relearn the hip slang of the time while finding out which tales from the fifties were really tall tales or urban legends that are now debunked. Rodriguez gives you a whole decade's worth of fun, facts, and all-important memories. It may have been half a century ago, but with The 1950s' Most Wanted (TM), it'll seem like just yesterday.
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• Foreword-- H.Jenkins Introduction-- A. Bowdoin Van Riper & C. J. Miller PROLOGUE: WHEN OUR STORY BEGINS Where It All Began: The Flash Gordon Serials-- R. Kinnard PART I: LEARNING TO BE ROCKETMEN 'A Commotion in the Firmament': Tom Corbett and the Lost Boys-- J. C. Tibbetts Boys Wonder: Male Teenage Assistants in 1950s Sci-Fi Movie Serials and Cold War Masculinity-- R. Jacobs Girls and 'Space Fever'-- A. Foster PART II: REACHING FOR TOMORROW Space Fever: From Fantasy to Reality-- H. E. McCurdy Shooting for the Stars: Captain Video, the Rocket Rangers, and America's Conquest of Space-- P. Luciano & G. Coville Space Opera TV: Seeing the World of Tomorrow-- J. P. Telotte PART III: AS SEEN ON TV The Sky is the Limit: Advertising and Consumer Culture in Rocketman Television Shows of the 1950s-- L. R. Samuel Creating a Sense of Wonder: The Glorious Legacy of Space Opera Toys of the 1950's-- S. M. Young Space Patrol: Missions of Daring in the Name of Early Television-- J. Bassior PART IV: LOOKING AT THE EARTH Making the Universe Safe for Democracy: Rocky Jones, Space Ranger-- W. W. Dixon "Justice through Strength and Courage": Captain Midnight and the Military-Industrial Complex-- M. Broderick "To Learn from the Past...": Becoming Cold War Citizens with Captain Z-Ro-- C. J. Miller & A. Bowdoin Van Riper EPILOGUE: THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AND BEYOND Confessions of A Commando Cody Addict (Or, How The Flying Suit Changed My Life)-- G. Hughes.
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The heyday of the televised rocketman came before our actual travels in space occurred and was a burgeoning time in TV history. Before astronauts like John Glenn, Alan Shepard, and Neil Armstrong were household names, before the 'one small step' that left America's national footprint on the Moon, and before the wonders of science fiction became the wonders of science fact, battles were fought with Para-Ray guns and Cosmic Vibrators, 'Opticon Scillometers' scanned through walls, heroes in jetpacks soared through the skies, and the universe was full of wonder. The fourteen essays featured here focus on series such as Space Patrol, Tom Corbett, and Captain Z-Ro, exploring their roles in the day-to-day lives of their fans through topics such as mentoring, promotion of the real-world space program, merchandising, gender issues, and ranger clubs - all the while promoting the fledgling medium of television.
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1954: Perhaps no single baseball season has so profoundly changed the game forever. In that year--the same in which the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled, in the case of Brown vs. Board of Education, that segregation of the races be outlawed in America's public schools--Larry Doby's Indians won an American League record 111 games, dethroned the five-straight World Series champion Yankees, and went on to play Willie Mays's Giants in the first World Series that featured players of color on both teams. Seven years after Jackie Robinson had broken the baseball color line, 1954 was a triumphant watershed season for black players--and, in a larger sense, for baseball and the country as a whole. While Doby was the dominant player in the American League, Mays emerged as the preeminent player in the National League, with a flair and boyish innocence that all fans, black and white, quickly came to embrace. Mays was almost instantly beloved in 1954, much of that due to how seemingly easy it was for him to live up to the effusive buildup from his Giants manager, Leo Durocher, a man more widely known for his ferocious "nice guys finish last" attitude. Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Bill Madden delivers the first major book to fully examine the 1954 baseball season, drawn largely from exclusive recent interviews with the major players themselves, including Mays and Doby as well as New York baseball legends from that era: Yogi Berra and Whitey Ford of the Yankees, Monte Irvin of the Giants, and Carl Erskine of the Dodgers. 1954 transports readers across the baseball landscape of the time--from the spring training camps in Florida and Arizona to baseball cities including New York, Baltimore, Chicago, and Cleveland--as future superstars such as Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, and others entered the leagues and continued to integrate the sport. Weaving together the narrative of one of baseball's greatest seasons with the racially charged events of that year, 1954 demonstrates how our national pastime--with the notable exception of the Yankees, who represented "white supremacy" in the game--was actually ahead of the curve in terms of the acceptance of black Americans, while the nation at large continued to struggle with tolerance.
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Until now, the most authoritative study of the 1960 presidential race between John F Kennedy, Lynden B Johnson and Richard Nixon, was Theodore White's Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Making of the President 1960". But White, as a trusted insider, didn't tell all. Here's the rest of the story - combining an engaging narrative with exhaustive research, Pietrusza chronicles this pivotal election in which presidential debates were first televised, showing a tentative and exhausted Nixon - thus forever altering American politics, as with 80 million viewers passing judgment, Nixon's poll numbers dropped as the charismatic Kennedy's star rose. Nixon learned his lesson - but the damage was done. Pietrusza conveys the drama of that tumultuous year, all built on painstaking research and solid historical scholarship. With the 2008 American elections approaching, politics will be on everyone's mind and "1960: LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon" will transform the way readers see modern American history.
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• The 1960s in General-- The Political, Social and Economic Milieu-- Presidencies-- Youth-- Protest-- The Counterculture-- Radicalism, the New Left, and the Far Right-- The Military and the Vietnam War-- 1968 - The Pivotal Year-- The Environment, Overpopulation, and Consumer Issues-- The Arts-- Music of the Period-- Media Bring the Message-- The New Enlightenment of Women-- Religion and its Alternatives-- Major Influential Literature-- The People Who Made the Times-- Retrospectives on the Era.
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The 1960s were a particularly turbulent period, and the events of those years continue to interest and influence American society. This bibliography aims to record and document the most significant happenings of that decade. The volume spans the years between 1960 and the resignation of President Nixon in 1974. It includes citations for more than 1300 books related to that period. Some of the books were written during the 1960s and directly influenced people of that time. Others were written afterwards, and analyse and interpret the events of the decade. The entries are arranged in topical chapters, and each citation is accompanied by a descriptive and evaluative annotation. The volume begins with an introduction that reviews and discusses the major events and trends of the time. The following 17 topical chapters treat virtually every aspect of life in the 1960s. The first few include general works on the underlying social, political, and economic conditions that served to define the decade. Other chapters discuss works on the presidencies, social protests, the impact of the Vietnam war, the cultural revolution, and trends in art, music, literature, and religion. The bibliography concludes with author, title, and subject indexes.
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This guide to the forces that shaped the 1960s cultural revolution in the USA examines the New Left, the antiwar movement and the counterculture. A narrative historical overview puts these topics in perspective and the legacy of the era is discussed. Biographies of key players add insight.
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It was the year that Cold War protagonists sought a truce, the race into space stepped up a gear, feminism and civil rights flexed their political muscles, and President Kennedy's assassination numbed the world. But as the front pages of history were being printed, the scoop of the century slipped by unnoticed. On January 13th 1963, two then largely unknown acts made their first appearances on nationwide television in Britain. Neither The Beatles nor Bob Dylan could have known it at the time, but by some strange alchemy the anthems of a social upheaval were being heard by a mass audience-and they were the catalyst. Within the year, their voices were commanding millions of ears around the world. The Beatles had become the poster boys of a revolution that still influences us to this day, and Dylan its prophet. 1963, in short, saw the birth of a global demographic power shift. Within that one year, youth, for the first time in history had become a commercial and cultural force that commanded the attention of government and religion and exercised the power to shape society. 1963 is the first book to recount the kinetic story of the emancipation of youth through music, fashion, and the arts - and in the voices of those who changed the world so radically, from Keith Richards to Eric Clapton, Mary Quant to Vidal Sassoon, Graham Nash to Peter Frampton, Alan Parker to Gay Talese, Stevie Nicks to Norma Kamali, and many more. It is an oral history that records, documentary-style, the incredible roller-coaster ride of that year when a group of otherwise obscure teenagers would become global superstars. It serves not only as a fast-paced historical eyewitness record but as an inspiration to anyone in search of a passion, an identity, and a dream.
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• A year like no other
• Tet
• Home front
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Columbia University
• Paris
• Bobby Kennedy
• Prague
• Chicago
• Mexico City
• Apollo
• Articles.

1968, the year America grew up. From racial and gender equality fights to the struggle against the draft and the Vietnam War, in 1968 Americans asked tough questions and fought for their rights. Now, 30 years later, we look back on that seminal year--from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assasination to the Columbia University riots to our changing role among other nations--in this gripping introduction to the events home and abroad. The year we first took steps in space, the year we shaped the present, presented by a retired New York Times writer who lived through it all, who shares the story with detail and passion.--From publisher description.

Opening with Vince Lombardi's last win as coach of the Packers in Super Bowl II and closing with Joe Namath's Super Bowl III guarantee, James Nicholson delivers an original portrait of a sensational closing decade in American culture. Controversies on the field and in the ring reflected broader political and social turmoil in the late-sixties United States. With one of the most contentious presidential elections in US history, the ongoing civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War all storming in the background, Nicholson charts a course through the oddly unsettled waters of American sports in 1968: the Masters golf tournament decided by the strict enforcement of an arcane rule to the detriment of a foreign player; the winner of the Kentucky Derby disqualified for a drug violation; Muhammad Ali waiting in sports exile while he appealed a criminal conviction for draft evasion; an unorthodox rendition of the national anthem at the World Series nearly overshadowing the game it preceded; and the silent gesture at the Mexico City Olympics made by Tommie Smith and John Carlos that shocked the nation.
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• January : the living room war
• February : we're losing this war
• Interlude : "the moving image"
• March : the generation gap
• April : "something is happening in our world"
• May : "I am somebody"
• June : violence shock
• Interlude : 1968 music
• July : love it or leave it
• August : "welcome to Chicago"
• September : sisterhood is powerful
• October : power to the people
• November : the votes are in
• Interlude : fashion, design, consumerism
• December : in the beginning
• .

• Happy davs
• Le commerce comme religion
• Le règne de la voiture
• Toujours plus vite
• L'influence de la télévision
• La peine de mort
• Une autre Amérique
• Une perception nouvelle
• Guerre froide
• L'immigration
• Le Ku Klux Klan
• Les armes en Amérique
• La montée d'une conscience collective
• Comment en est-on arrivé là ?
• Tout s'emballe
• A la télévision
• Trop c'est trop
• la révolution étudiante
• Les campus ont la fièvre
• La paix à tout prix
• La violence gagne
• Le jour d'après
• le mouvement des droits civiques
• Black Power
• Les violences urbaines
• Le massacre d'Orangeburg
• Le jour maudit
• "I'm feeling groom""
• La révolution sexuelle
• Les femmes
• Les gays
• L'environnement
• Les tensions sont partout
• Le sport est américain
• J.O. et guerre froide
• Rien ne va plus
• Tommie Smith et John Carlos
• Une année tumultueuse
• L'année charnière
• La loi et l'ordre
• Les chocs à répétition
• Conventions
• Une campagne à sens unique
• La contre-culture et Woodstock
• Les arts visuels
• Faire entendre sa voix
• Les paillettes d'Hollywood
• En musique
• L'après-68, ou quand tout commence
• Vers un nouveau monde
• Cinquante ans plus tard
• L'héritage
• L'homme venu du passé
• Un passé qui ressurgit
• Deux temps, deux destinées
• La mort du Rêve américain
• En route pour la Lune
• La tête dans les nuages
• La conquête spatiale
• Trois hommes dans la Lune.

"L'année 1968, la pire de toute l'histoire américaine ? Les sixties ont marqué la société américaine et développé un imaginaire qui s'est transmis jusqu'à nous. Avec l'élection inattendue de Donald Trump, l'Amérique est retournée dans son passé, avec ce constat terrible : en souhaitant ramener son pays en arrière - persuadé qu'il y était plus heureux, son nouveau Président s'attaque à la déconstruction, brique par brique, des éléments du progrès déposés par les enfants de 1968. Car voilà que reviennent sur le devant de la scène les créationnistes, les suprématistes, le Ku Klux Klan. Tout serait-il donc à recommencer ? La période de 1968 et les temps actuels sont comme le yin et le yang de l'histoire d'un pays qui ne cesse de nous fasciner et de nous surprendre."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: On the Eve of 1968
• Chapter 2: The President Withdraws
• Chapter 3: The Violent Spring
• Chapter 4: Nixon's the One
• Chapter 5: Democratic Disaster at Chicago
• Chapter 6: October Surprises Recommended Reading.
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The race for the White House in 1968 was a watershed event in American politics. In this brilliantly succinct narrative analysis, Lewis L. Gould shows how the events of that tumultuous year changed the way Americans felt about politics and their national leaders; how Republicans used the skills they brought to Richard Nixon's campaign to create a generation-long ascendancy in presidential politics; and how Democrats, divided and torn after 1968, emerged as only crippled challengers for the White House throughout most of the years until the early twenty-first century. Bitterness over racial issues and the Vietnam War that marked the 1968 election continued to shape national affairs and to rile American society for years afterward. And the election accelerated an erosion of confidence in American institutions that has not yet reached a conclusion. In his lucid account, now revised and updated, Mr. Gould emphasizes the importance of race as the campaign's key issue and examines the now infamous "October surprises" of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon as he describes the extraordinary events of what Eugene McCarthy later called the "Hard Year.".
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This is a concise and engrossing analysis of the crucial race for the White House that ushered in the Republican ascendancy and left the Democrats divided and torn. Mr. Goulds fresh interpretations, new details, and deft portraits mark this as a distinguished book in a crowded field (Booklist). It is part of the "American Ways" series.
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• Acknowledgments Preface
• Chapter 1: "Yippie!"
• Chapter 2: "Hell No! They Shouldn't Go!"
• Chapter 3: "We Had to Destroy the Town in Order to Save It"
• Chapter 4: "The Impossible Dream": The New Politics
• Chapter 5: "We Shall Overcome": The Dreamer
• Chapter 6: "We All Want to Change the World": Springtime of the Young Rebels
• Chapter 7: "Burn, Baby, Burn": Bearing Witness and the Boston Five
• Chapter 8: "You Saw You Want a Revolution"
• Chapter 9: "There's a Man with a Gun Over There": The Politics of Assassination
• Chapter 10: "The Whole World is Watching: Czechago
• Chapter 11: "R-E-S-P-E-C-T": People Power
• Chapter 12: "The Personal Is Political"
• Chapter 13: "Goin' Up the Country": The New Environmentalism
• Chapter 14: "Your Day, Of Course, Is Going to Be Over Soon": The Backlash
• Chapter 15: "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised": Legacies and Conclusion Appendix A: List of Abbreviations Bibliography Index About the Authors.
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The year 1968 retains its mythic hold on the imagination in America and around the world. Like the revolutionary years 1789, 1848, 1871, 1917, and 1989, it is recalled most of all as a year when revolution beckoned or threatened. On the 50th anniversary of that tumultuous year, cultural historians Robert Cottrell and Blaine T. Browne provide a well-informed, up-to-date synthesis of the events that rocked the world, emphasizing the revolutionary possibilities more fully than previous books. For a time, it seemed as if anything were possible, that utopian visions could be borne out in the political, cultural, racial, or gender spheres. It was the year of the Tet Offensive, the Resistance, the Ultra-Resistance, the New Politics, Chavez and RFK breaking bread, LBJ's withdrawal, student revolt, barricades in Paris, the Prague Spring, SDS' sharp turn leftward, communes, the American Indian Movement, the Beatles' "Revolution, " the Stones' "Street Fighting Man, " The Population Bomb, protest at the Miss America pageant, and Black Power at the Mexico City Olympics. 1968 was also the year of My Lai, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, Warsaw Pact tanks in Czechoslovakia, the police riot in Chicago, the Tlatelolco massacre, Reagan's belated bid, Wallace's American Independent Party campaign, "Love It or Leave It, " and the backlash that set the stage, at year's end, for Richard Milhous Nixon's ascendancy to the White House. For those readers reliving 1968 or exploring it for the first time, Cottrell and Browne serve as insightful guides, weaving the events together into a powerful narrative of an America and a world on the brink.
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• List of Illustrations ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1
• Chapter 1: Crosscurrents of Crisis in 1970s America 19 Trouble Abroad 22 Corruption at Home 36 Conservatism and the Distrust of Government 45 Economic Insecurity 53 Turning Inward 63
• Chapter 2: The Rising Tide of Equality and Democratic Reform 73 Women in the Public Sphere 76 Women in the Private Sphere 88 The Many Frontiers of Equality 96 Political Reform 108 Resistance 114
• Chapter 3: The Spread of Market Values 122 A Sea Change of Principles 126 The Economy Goes South 133 Globalization's Gathering Speed 137 From Citizenship to Deregulation 144 Market Solutions for Every Problem 153 A Freer Market, A Coarser Culture 162
• Chapter 4: The Retreat of Empires and the Global Advance of the Market 175 The Emergence of Human Rights 179 European Empires and Southern Africa 186 The Soviet Empire 193 The American Empire 201 The Israeli Exception 208 The Retreat of the State 214 China and the Hollowing Out of Socialism 220
• Chapter 5: Resistance to the New Hyper-Individualism 227 The Environmentalist Challenge 231 Religious Resurgence at Home 247 Religious Resurgence in Israel 258 Religious Resurgence in the Muslim World 263 Jimmy Carter as a Man of His Times 270
• Chapter 6: More and Less Equal since the 1970s 279 Evidence to the Contrary 280 Inclusiveness Ascending 287 Markets Persisting 295 Unrestrained Consumption 299 Inequality Rising 306 Conclusion 312 Notes 319 Index 371.
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The 1970s looks at an iconic decade when the cultural left and economic right came to the fore in American society and the world at large. While many have seen the 1970s as simply a period of failures epitomized by Watergate, inflation, the oil crisis, global unrest, and disillusionment with military efforts in Vietnam, Thomas Borstelmann creates a new framework for understanding the period and its legacy. He demonstrates how the 1970s increased social inclusiveness and, at the same time, encouraged commitments to the free market and wariness of government. As a result, American culture and much of the rest of the world became more--and less--equal. Borstelmann explores how the 1970s forged the contours of contemporary America. Military, political, and economic crises undercut citizens' confidence in government. Free market enthusiasm led to lower taxes, a volunteer army, individual 401(k) retirement plans, free agency in sports, deregulated airlines, and expansions in gambling and pornography. At the same time, the movement for civil rights grew, promoting changes for women, gays, immigrants, and the disabled. And developments were not limited to the United States. Many countries gave up colonial and racial hierarchies to develop a new formal commitment to human rights, while economic deregulation spread to other parts of the world, from Chile and the United Kingdom to China. Placing a tempestuous political culture within a global perspective, The 1970s shows that the decade wrought irrevocable transformations upon American society and the broader world that continue to resonate today.
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• List of Illustrations ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1
• Chapter 1: Crosscurrents of Crisis in 1970s America 19 Trouble Abroad 22 Corruption at Home 36 Conservatism and the Distrust of Government 45 Economic Insecurity 53 Turning Inward 63
• Chapter 2: The Rising Tide of Equality and Democratic Reform 73 Women in the Public Sphere 76 Women in the Private Sphere 88 The Many Frontiers of Equality 96 Political Reform 108 Resistance 114
• Chapter 3: The Spread of Market Values 122 A Sea Change of Principles 126 The Economy Goes South 133 Globalization's Gathering Speed 137 From Citizenship to Deregulation 144 Market Solutions for Every Problem 153 A Freer Market, A Coarser Culture 162
• Chapter 4: The Retreat of Empires and the Global Advance of the Market 175 The Emergence of Human Rights 179 European Empires and Southern Africa 186 The Soviet Empire 193 The American Empire 201 The Israeli Exception 208 The Retreat of the State 214 China and the Hollowing Out of Socialism 220
• Chapter 5: Resistance to the New Hyper-Individualism 227 The Environmentalist Challenge 231 Religious Resurgence at Home 247 Religious Resurgence in Israel 258 Religious Resurgence in the Muslim World 263 Jimmy Carter as a Man of His Times 270
• Chapter 6: More and Less Equal since the 1970s 279 Evidence to the Contrary 280 Inclusiveness Ascending 287 Markets Persisting 295 Unrestrained Consumption 299 Inequality Rising 306 Conclusion 312 Notes 319 Index 371.
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"The 1970s" looks at an iconic decade when the cultural left and economic right came to the fore in American society and the world at large. While many have seen the 1970s as simply a period of failures epitomized by Watergate, inflation, the oil crisis, global unrest, and disillusionment with military efforts in Vietnam, Thomas Borstelmann creates a new framework for understanding the period and its legacy. He demonstrates how the 1970s increased social inclusiveness and, at the same time, encouraged commitments to the free market and wariness of government. As a result, American culture and much of the rest of the world became more - and less - equal. Borstelmann explores how the 1970s forged the contours of contemporary America. Military, political, and economic crises undercut citizens' confidence in government. Free market enthusiasm led to lower taxes, a volunteer army, individual 401(k) retirement plans, free agency in sports, deregulated airlines, and expansions in gambling and pornography. At the same time, the movement for civil rights grew, promoting changes for women, gays, immigrants, and the disabled. And developments were not limited to the United States. Many countries gave up colonial and racial hierarchies to develop a new formal commitment to human rights, while economic deregulation spread to other parts of the world, from Chile and the United Kingdom to China. Placing a tempestuous political culture within a global perspective, "The 1970s" shows that the decade wrought irrevocable transformations upon American society and the broader world that continue to resonate today.
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Art historian Darby English is celebrated for working against the grain and plumbing gaps in historical narratives. In this book, he explores the year 1971, when two exhibitions opened that brought modernist painting and sculpture into the burning heart of black cultural politics: Contemporary Black Artists in America, shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and The DeLuxe Show, an integrated abstract art exhibition presented in a renovated movie theater in a Houston ghetto.1971 takes an insightful look at many black artists' desire to gain freedom from overt racial representation, as well as their and their advocates' efforts to further that aim through public exhibitions. Amid calls to define a "black aesthetic" or otherwise settle the race question, these experiments with modernist art favored cultural interaction and instability. Contemporary Black Artists in America highlighted abstraction as a stance against normative approaches, while The DeLuxe Show positioned abstraction in a center of urban blight. The power and social importance of these experiments, English argues, came partly from color's special status as a racial metaphor and partly from investigations of color that were underway in formalist American art and criticism. From Frank Bowling to Virginia Jaramillo, Sam Gilliam to Peter Bradley, black modernists and their supporters rose above the demand to represent or be represented, compromising nothing in their appeals for racial reconciliation. At a time when many debates about identity sought closure, these exhibitions offered openings; when icons and slogans touted simple solutions, they chose difficulty. But above all, as English demonstrates in this provocative book, these exhibitions and artists responded with optimism rather than cynicism to the surrounding culture's preoccupation with color.
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It's 1979 and Tom Buzby is thirteen years old and living in the small working- class city of Chatham, Ontario. So far, so normal. Except that Tom's dad is the local tattoo artist, his mother is a born-again former stripper who's run off with the minister from the church where the pet store used to be, and his sister can't wait to leave town for good. And everyone along his daily newspaper route looks at him a little differently, this boy who's come back from the dead, who just might be the only one who understands the miraculous, heart-breaking mystery that is their lives. Set in the year that real newspaper headlines told of North America's hard turn to the right, 1979 offers a smalltown take on the buried lives of those who almost never make the news, and one boy's attempt to make sense of it all.
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• Chapter 1 Acknowledgments
• Chapter 2 Introduction: The 80s as a Decade
• Part 3 PART 1:"FREEDOM AND SECURITY GO TOGETHER:" REAGAN'S INFLUENCE DURING THE 80s
• Chapter 4
• 1. Ronald W. Reagan: Redefining the Presidency
• Chapter 5
• 2. Reagan Revives FBI Spying
• Chapter 6
• 3. The "Real" Right Turn: The Reagan Supreme Court
• Chapter 7
• 4. "Privatizing the Leviathan State: A 'Reaganomic' Legacy"
• Chapter 8
• 5. "Airlines? Lousy Unions." Airline Workers in the Era of Deregulation and Hostile Takeover
• Part 9 PART 2:"YEAH, WELL, HISTORY'S GONNA CHANGE:"UNDERSTANDING THE 80s BEYOND REAGAN
• Chapter 10
• 6. Triumph of "The Gipper" and the Democratic Party Malaise in the 1980s
• Chapter 11
• 7. The Christian Right's Traditionalist Jeremiad: Piety and Politics in the Age of Reagan
• Chapter 12
• 8. New Right, New History, Common Ground: Populism and the Past
• Chapter 13
• 9. An Army of One in 1:18 Scale: The Profit of Patriotism in G.I. Joe
• Chapter 14
• 10. "Fixing" the Fifties: Alex P. Keaton and Marty McFly
• Part 15 PART 3:"TAKE A CHILL PILL, MAN:" COMING TO TERMS WITH THE SOCIAL ILLS OF THE 80s
• Chapter 16
• 11. How Broadway has Cared: The AIDS Epidemic and the Great White Way
• Chapter 17
• 12. Counterpublic Art and Social Practice
• Chapter 18
• 13. Date Rape and Sexual Politics
• Chapter 19
• 14. A Culture in Panic: Day Care Abuse Scandals and the Vulnerability of Children
• Chapter 20
• 15. What's Class Got to Do with It?: Facets of Tracy Chapman through Song
• Part 21 PART 4:"WE ARE THE WORLD:" UNDERSTANDING THE 80s BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS
• Chapter 22 16.Reading MTV: The Proliferation of United States Culture in the Age of Globalization
• Chapter 23
• 17. The United States and Apartheid
• Chapter 24
• 18. The Opening of China and the Evolution of China-U.S.Cross-Cultural Understanding
• Chapter 25
• 19. U.S. Foreign Policy in Latin America on Film: The Case of Salvador
• Chapter 26
• 20. Cold War Crucible: The Berlin Wall and American Exceptionalism
• Part 27 PART 5:"TOTALLY AWESOME, 80s:" A DECADE OF ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
• Chapter 28
• 21. Fear of a Black Planet: Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan, and Eddie Murphy and the Globalization of Black Masculinity
• Chapter 29
• 22. Matter and Mammon: Fiction in the Age of Reagan
• Chapter 30
• 23. Alternative for Alternative's Sake: Progressive College Radio'sProgramming Struggles
• Chapter 31
• 24. "Life in Marvelous Times:" Commemorative Narratives of the Golden Era in Hip Hop Culture
• Chapter 32
• 25. "Do We Get to Win this Time?" Movies, Mythology, and Political Culture in "Reagan Country"
• Chapter 33 Selected Bibliography
• Chapter 34 Index
• Chapter 35 About the Contributors.
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As we approach twenty years since the end of the 1980s, we have the opportunity to see the decade in perspective, and are in a position to question the glib assumption that the 1980s were a mere conservative foil to the 1960s. The 1980s: A Critical and Transitional Decade, edited by Kimberly R. Moffitt and Duncan A. Campbell, places its topics within the context of a decade described as both critical and transitional because the 1980s, in many respects, marked the end of one era and the beginning of another. For example, the Reagan presidency, the end of the Cold War, MTV, and the appearance of the personal computer all reflect a legacy of political, cultural, and social transformation of the United States and the world, and took place specifically within the 1980s. The function of this interdisciplinary volume is not to simply highlight the significant phenomena of the period, but rather demonstrate how so many apparently disparate events were, in fact, closely inter-related and also products of their age. The 1980s is a holistic analysis of the decade that focuses on major turning points, developments in literature, art, entertainment, politics, and social experimentation. The 1980s: A Critical and Transitional Decade, edited by Kimberly R. Moffitt and Duncan A. Campbell is a groundbreaking and stand-alone introductory volume that is unapologetically interdisciplinary in nature and encourages students to explore topics of the decade often overlooked or grouped together with other, more memorable decades such as the 1920s or 1960s.
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1983 was a supremely dangerous year - even more dangerous than 1962, the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the US, President Reagan massively increased defence spending, described the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire' and announced his 'Star Wars' programme, calling for a shield in space to defend the US from incoming missiles. Yuri Andropov, the paranoid Soviet leader, saw all this as signs of American aggression and convinced himself that the US really meant to attack the Soviet Union. He put the KGB on alert to look for signs of an imminent nuclear attack. When a Soviet fighter jet shot down Korean Air Lines flight KAL 007 after straying off course over a sensitive Soviet military area, President Reagan described it as a 'terrorist act' and 'a crime against humanity'. The temperature was rising fast. Then at the height of the tension, NATO began a war game called Able Archer 83. In this exercise, NATO requested permission to use the codes to launch nuclear weapons. The nervous Soviets convinced themselves this was no exercise but the real thing. This is an extraordinary and largely unknown Cold War story of spies and double agents, of missiles being readied, of intelligence failures, misunderstandings and the panic of world leaders. With access to hundreds of extraordinary new documents just released in the US, Taylor Downing is able to tell for the first time the gripping but true story of how near the world came to the brink of nuclear war in 1983. 1983: The World at the Brink is a real-life thriller.
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In 1983 cinema audiences flocked to see the latest James Bond movie in which Roger Moore defeats a Soviet general who attempts to launch a nuclear first strike against the West. Like all Bond movies, audiences believed that the storyline was entirely fictional if not totally crazy. Little did they know that while they munched on their popcorn, the Soviets were indeed preparing to launch a real nuclear attack on the West. 1983 was a dangerous year. In the United States, President Reagan increased defence spending and launched the 'Star Wars' Strategic Defence Initiative. When a Soviet plane shot down a Korean civilian jet, he described it as 'a crime against humanity'. Moscow was growing increasingly concerned about America's language and behaviour. Would they attack? The temperature was rising, fast. By November, Soviet leader Yuri Andropov, a life-long KGB man, had his finger on the nuclear button. Had the US made a move, it would have meant global nuclear Armageddon. It was only the following year that the US - which had never considered a first strike - came to learn just how terrified the Soviet Union was, and just how close to the brink the world had come. In 1983, Taylor Downing draws on previously unpublished interviews, and over a thousand pages of secret documents that have recently been released by Washington to tell the gripping, astonishing story that was almost the end of the world. Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.
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• List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction to an Improbable Year 1 * The Year of the Internet 2 * Terror in the Heartland, and a Wary America 3 * O.J., DNA, and the "Trial of the Century" 4 * Peace at Dayton and the "Hubris Bubble" 5 * Clinton Meets Lewinsky Conclusion: The Long Reach of 1995 The Timeline of a Watershed Year: 1995 Notes Select Bibliography Index.
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A hinge moment in recent American history, 1995 was an exceptional year. Drawing on interviews, oral histories, memoirs, archival collections, and news reports, W. Joseph Campbell presents a vivid, detail-rich portrait of those memorable twelve months. This book offers fresh interpretations of the decisive moments of 1995, including the emergence of the Internet and the World Wide Web in mainstream American life; the bombing at Oklahoma City, the deadliest attack of domestic terrorism in U.S. history; the sensational Trial of the Century, " at which O.J. Simpson faced charges of double murder; the U.S.-brokered negotiations at Dayton, Ohio, which ended the Bosnian War, Europe's most vicious conflict since the Nazi era; and the first encounters at the White House between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, a liaison that culminated in a stunning scandal and the spectacle of the president's impeachment and trial. As Campbell demonstrates in this absorbing chronicle, 1995 was a year of extraordinary events, a watershed at the turn of the millennium. The effects of that pivotal year reverberate still, marking the close of one century and the dawning of another.
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• List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction to an Improbable Year 1 * The Year of the Internet 2 * Terror in the Heartland, and a Wary America 3 * O.J., DNA, and the "Trial of the Century" 4 * Peace at Dayton and the "Hubris Bubble" 5 * Clinton Meets Lewinsky Conclusion: The Long Reach of 1995 The Timeline of a Watershed Year: 1995 Notes Select Bibliography Index.
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A hinge moment in recent American history, 1995 was an exceptional year. Drawing on interviews, oral histories, memoirs, archival collections, and news reports, W. Joseph Campbell presents a vivid, detail-rich portrait of those memorable twelve months. This book offers fresh interpretations of the decisive moments of 1995, including the emergence of the Internet and the World Wide Web in mainstream American life; the bombing at Oklahoma City, the deadliest attack of domestic terrorism in U.S. history; the sensational Trial of the Century, " at which O.J. Simpson faced charges of double murder; the U.S.-brokered negotiations at Dayton, Ohio, which ended the Bosnian War, Europe's most vicious conflict since the Nazi era; and the first encounters at the White House between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, a liaison that culminated in a stunning scandal and the spectacle of the president's impeachment and trial. As Campbell demonstrates in this absorbing chronicle, 1995 was a year of extraordinary events, a watershed at the turn of the millennium. The effects of that pivotal year reverberate still, marking the close of one century and the dawning of another.
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"In the wake of the Trump election, artist Matt Keegan (born 1976) began investigating the Democratic Party’s shifts over recent decades. In the late ’80s, members of the Democratic Leadership Council successfully moved the party’s platform to the right by including a pro-business, pro-military, interventionist agenda, and downplaying social infrastructure as a calculated break from its New Deal-era foundation. This shift led to Bill Clinton’s consecutive terms. For this volume Matt Keegan interviews artists and commissions writing to reassess the 1990s as the moment when the Democratic Party abandoned its New Deal values and swung to the right. 1996 captures this pivotal time in American politics and society through the experience of artists who completed their undergraduate studies in that year and voted for Clinton, and others who were born in 1996 and voted for the first time in 2016. Essays focus on cultural and ideological shifts from that time, such as the 1994 Crime Bill, 1996 Immigration Act, the Telecommunications Act, the start of Fox News and beyond."--Provided by publisher