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Television Fraud
Anderson provides an unprecedented probe into the inner workings of the quiz shows. He details their honest beginnings and explains how the practice of supplying answers grew out …
Menace in the West
Sheds light on the origin and content of French anti-Americanism. In this work, French travel accounts of America have been scrutinized and periodicals in which the work of …
A Capacity for Outrage
Arthur Selwyn Miller's book, the first biography written about Judge J. Skelly Wright, deals with the important aspects of his career as a jurist and the impact of his decisions on …
Family, Drama, and American Dreams
American drama is chiefly a drama of realistic family plays and its conventions revolve around the antagonistic impulses of security and freedom. Scanlan asserts that America's …
Ezra Pound Speaking
Democratic Dictatorship
Miller examines the evolution of the system in response to climactic social and economic changes and questions how the American political system will adapt to the crisis-filled …
The Indians and Their Captives
The Soul of the Wobblies
This important work offers a new view of the Wobblies by examining not only their connection to American culture but their relationship to early twentieth-century American …
Sons of Liberty
David G. Pugh examines the evolution and shape of the cult of masculinity in nineteenth-century America. The author contends that the men of the time had been cut loose from their …
The Selected Writings of Mordecai Noah
Mordecai Noah, whose writings span from the 1800s to the 1840s, is the first important Jewish writer to appear on the American scene. In his own time, he was ranked with Washington …
Abortion, Politics, and the Courts
In 1973 the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision seemed to settle the abortion issue for all time. However, that victory did not win the war, and the impact of that milestone …
Prophetic Pictures
This study takes an unusual approach to Nathaniel Hawthorne's work by exploring his knowledge and uses of the visual arts. The authors trace Hawthorne's encounters with art in his …