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Eastern Establishment and the Western Experience
The West of Frederic Remington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Owen Wister
Häftad, 1989
284 kr
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First published in 1968, The Eastern Establishment and the Western Experience has become a classic in the field of American studies.G. Edward White traces the origins of “the West of the imagination” to the adolescent experiences of Frederic Remington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Owen Wister-three …
Francis Parkman, Historian As Hero
The Formative Years
Häftad, 2011
292 kr
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A historian who lived the kind of history he wrote, Francis Parkman is a major-and controversial-figure in American historiography. His narrative style, while popular with readers wanting a "good story," has raised many questions with professional historians. Was Parkman writing history or …
Irene Rice Pereira
Her Paintings and Philosophy
Häftad, 1993
371 kr
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Artist Irene Rice Pereira was a significant figure in the New York art world of the 1930s and 1940s, who shared an interest in Jungianism with the better-known Abstract Expressionists and with various women artists and writers seeking "archetypal" imagery. Yet her artistic philosophy and innovative …
Heretics and Hellraisers
Women Contributors to the Masses, 1911-1917
Häftad, 1993
317 kr
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The Masses was the most dynamic and influential left-wing magazine of the early twentieth century, a touchstone for understanding radical thought and social movements in the United States during that era. As a magazine that supported feminist issues, it played a crucial role in shaping public …
Henry J. Kaiser
Builder in the Modern American West
Häftad, 1989
442 kr
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In the 1940s Henry J. Kaiser was a household name, as familiar then as Warren Buffett and Donald Trump are now. Like a Horatio Alger hero, Kaiser rose from lower-middle-class origins to become an enormously wealthy entrepreneur, building roads, bridges, dams, and housing. He established giant …
Ruth Benedict
Stranger in This Land
Häftad, 1989
502 kr
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Poet, anthropologist, feminist—Ruth Fulton Benedict was all of these and much more. Born into the last years of the Victorian era, she came of age during the Progressive years and participated in inaugurating the modern era of American life. Ruth Benedict: Stranger in This Land provides an …
Structures in the Stream
Water, Science, and the Rise of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Av Todd Shallat
Häftad, 2013
327 kr
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As the Mississippi and other midwestern rivers inundated town after town during the summer of 1993, concerned and angry citizens questioned whether the very technologies and structures intended to "tame" the rivers did not, in fact, increase the severity of the floods. Much of the controversy …
Ben Shahn
New Deal Artist in a Cold War Climate, 1947-1954
Häftad, 1989
281 kr
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In the first, most intense years of the Cold War (1947–1954), New Deal liberals often found themselves in great disfavor. Ben Shahn's experience presents something of a paradox, however, since his paintings appealed in different ways to both liberals and conservatives. Blacklisted by CBS during the …
James M. Cain and the American Authors' Authority
Av Richard Fine
Häftad, 2013
342 kr
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The 1940s offered ever-increasing outlets for writers in book publishing, magazines, radio, film, and the nascent television industry, but the standard rights arrangements often prevented writers from collecting a fair share of the profits made from their work. To remedy this situation, novelist …
Archaism, Modernism, and the Art of Paul Manship
Av Susan Rather
Häftad, 2014
313 kr
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Archaism, an international artistic phenomenon from early in the twentieth century through the 1930s, receives its first sustained analysis in this book. The distinctive formal and technical conventions of archaic art, especially Greek art, particularly affected sculptors-some frankly modernist, …
