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Triumph Beyond Silence

By: Herbert Hoover Hart

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Herbert Hoover Hart was born on Election Day in 1928. He was a healthy, hearing child born to deaf parents on the eve of the Great Depression. Over his first few years, life was chaotic, uncertain, and often desperate. Yet his mother's scrappy determination and his stepfather's ethic of hard work kept the family afloat. Everything changed for Herb and his two half-sisters one day in 1938 when his mother disappeared. This is the true story of how love, education and faith helped one boy overcome tremendous challenges to grow into a successful and happy man.

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144157722X

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Fanny Brice

The Original Funny Girl

By: Herbert G. Goldman

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Fanny Brice

The Original Funny Girl

By: Herbert G. Goldman

I've done everything in the theatre except marry a property man," Fanny Brice once boasted. "I've acted for Belasco and I've laid 'em out in the rows at the Palace. I've doubled as an alligator; I've worked for the Shuberts; and I've been joined to Billy Rose in the holy bonds. I've painted the house boards and I've sold tickets and I've been fired by George M. Cohan. I've played in London before the king and in Oil City before miners with lanterns in their caps." Fanny Brice was indeed show business personified, and in this luminous volume, Herbert G. Goldman, acclaimed biographer of Al Jolson, illuminates the life of the woman who inspired the spectacularly successful Broadway show and movie Funny Girl, the vehicle that catapulted Barbra Streisand to super stardom. In a work that is both glorious biography and captivating theatre history, Goldman illuminates both Fanny's remarkable career on stage and radio--ranging from her first triumph as "Sadie Salome" to her long run as radio's "Baby Snooks"--and her less-than-triumphant personal life. He reveals a woman who was a curious mix of elegance and earthiness, of high and low class, a lady who lived like a duchess but cursed like a sailor. She was probably the greatest comedienne the American stage has ever known as well as our first truly great torch singer, the star of some of the most memorable Ziegfeld Follies in the 1910s and 1920s, and Goldman covers her theatrical career and theatre world in vivid detail. But her personal life, as Goldman shows, was less successful. The great love of her life, the gangster Nick Arnstein, was dashing, handsome, sophisticated, but at bottom, a loser who failed at everything from running a shirt hospital to manufacturing fire extinguishers, and who spent a good part of their marriage either hiding out, awaiting trial, or in prison. Her first marriage was over almost as soon as it was consummated, and her third and last marriage, to Billy Rose, the "Bantam Barnum," ended acrimoniously when Rose left her for swimmer Eleanor Holm. As she herself remarked, "I never liked the men I loved, and I never loved the men I liked." Through it all, she remained unaffected, intelligent, independent, and, above all, honest. Goldman's biography of Al Jolson has been hailed by critics, fellow biographers, and entertainers alike. Steve Allen called it "an amazing job of research" and added "Goldman's book brings Jolson back to life indeed." The Philadelphia Inquirer said it was "the most comprehensive biography to date," and Ronald J. Fields wrote that "Goldman has captured not only the wonderful feel of Al Jolson but the heartbeat of his time." Now, with Fanny Brice, Goldman provides an equally accomplished portrait of the greatest woman entertainer of that illustrious era, a volume that will delight every lover of the stage.

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Oxford University Press

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0195359011

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9780195359015

Dangerous Dossiers

Exposing the Secret War Against America's Greatest Authors

By: Herbert Mitgang

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Dangerous Dossiers

Exposing the Secret War Against America's Greatest Authors

By: Herbert Mitgang

Dangerous Dossiers is as powerful and relevant today as it was when it first made worldwide headlines 25 years ago: a chilling reminder of the dangers of unfettered government intrusion into the lives and beliefs of private citizens, whether famous or not. This shocking account by award-winning author and former New York Times cultural reporter Herbert Mitgang provided hard evidence for the first time of the decades-long cultural war waged by the FBI and other federal intelligence-gathering agencies against scores of the world’s most renowned writers and artists. Using the Freedom of Information Act to pry loose actual surveillance files kept by the FBI, Mitgang documented that the targets of government snooping included a who’s-who of the literary and artistic worlds whom J. Edgar Hoover and his red-baiting legions suspected of communist leanings or outright disloyalty, usually with no basis whatsoever. They included: Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Thornton Wilder, Carl Sandburg, Norman Mailer, Robert Frost, and Allen Ginsburg; and artists including Alexander Calder, Georgia O’Keefe, and Henry Moore. Called “a fascinating, illuminating and above all, morally decent book” by The New York Times, and “first-class journalism” by The Associated Press, this exposé and the many “dangerous dossiers” it contains reveal no evidence of guilt on the part of the targets of the FBI witch-hunts. But Mitgang finds plenty of proof of the paranoia, political bias, and cultural illiteracy of those who controlled the nation’s most powerful investigative agencies.

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Open Road Media

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1504028791

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9781504028790

George Bush

The Life of a Lone Star Yankee

By: Herbert S. Parmet

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George Bush

The Life of a Lone Star Yankee

By: Herbert S. Parmet

In the first full biography of the former president, award-winning historian and biographer Herbert S. Parmet draws from George Bush's personal papers to look at the man who led America through the end of the Cold War. Enriched by access to Bush's private diaries, the book provides an intimate portrait of the forty-first president, and corrects many long-held misconceptions about him. Parmet shows George Bush within the context of a half century of American life and politics, at a time when great changes swept the nation. Parmet traces Bush's life from his New England youth, through World War II; from his leadership of the CIA, through his vice presidency and presidency, through his loss of the 1992 presidential election to Bill Clinton. This book will be of interest to readers of politics and political biographies. Herbert S. Parmet is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at The City University of New York. He is author of several books including Eisenhower and the American Crusades, also published by Transaction.

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Transaction Publishers

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1412824524

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9781412824521

Bibliography of the Sioux

By: Jack W. Marken,Herbert T. Hoover

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Bibliography of the Sioux

By: Jack W. Marken,Herbert T. Hoover

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Scarecrow Press

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0810813564

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9780810813564

Canadian-American Industry

By: Herbert Marshall,Kenneth W. Taylor,Frank Southard

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Canadian-American Industry

By: Herbert Marshall,Kenneth W. Taylor,Frank Southard

This volume is distinguished both for its detailed survey of the vast movement of industrial capital across the Canadian-American frontier, and for its multi-faceted analysis of the determinants and results of this movement. The authors have achieved a broad analysis covering the international movement of capital, labour skills, and technology, as well as the significant individual personalities. First published in 1936, Canadian-American Industry has retained its reputation for discerning and wise scholarship, and is republished at a crucial time in the debate over foreign ownership.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773591362

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9780773591363

School Choice

The Findings

By: Herbert J. Walberg

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School Choice

The Findings

By: Herbert J. Walberg

School Choice: The Findings is the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey available, summarizing the research on charter schools, vouchers, and public versus private school effectiveness, from one of the country's most distinguished education scholars. The focus is on rigorous studies' those using randomized control groups (as in medical research), those that monitor achievement changes over time, and those based on large numbers of students.

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Cato Institute

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1933995041

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9781933995045

Pattern and Process in a Forested Ecosystem

Disturbance, Development and the Steady State Based on the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study

By: F.Herbert Bormann,Gene E. Likens

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Pattern and Process in a Forested Ecosystem

Disturbance, Development and the Steady State Based on the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study

By: F.Herbert Bormann,Gene E. Likens

The advent of ecosystem ecology has created great difficulties for ecologists primarily trained as biologists, since inevitably as the field grew, it absorbed components of other disciplines relatively foreign to most ecologists yet vital to the understanding of the structure and function of ecosystems. From the point of view of the biological ecologist struggling to understand the enormous complexity of the biological functions within an ecosystem, the added necessity of integrating biology with geochemis try, hydrology, micrometeorology, geomorphology, pedology, and applied sciences (like silviculture and land use management) often has appeared as an impossible requirement. Ecologists have frequently responded by limiting their perspective to biology with the result that the modeling of species interactions is sometimes considered as modeling ecosystems, or modeling the living fraction of the ecosystems is considered as modeling whole ecosystems. Such of course is not the case, since understanding the structure and function of ecosystems requires sound understanding of inanimate as well as animate processes and often neither can be under stood without the other. About 15 years ago, a view of ecology somewhat different from most then prevailing, coupled with a strong dose of naivete and a sense of exploration, lead us to believe that consideration of the inanimate side of ecosystem function rather than being just one more annoying complexity might provide exceptional advantages in the study of ecosystems. To examine this possibility, we took two steps which occurred more or less simultaneously.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461262321

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9781461262329

Quest for Power

A Thriller

By: James Herbert Harrison,Senior Lecturer in International Law James Harrison

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Quest for Power

A Thriller

By: James Herbert Harrison,Senior Lecturer in International Law James Harrison

Retired Colonel Ronald Haines, the patriarch of a three-generation military family and Medal of Honor recipient, is a successful designer and manufacturer of military radar technology. When his grandson's young wife, an NSA analyst, is murdered in their suburban DC home, the crime is reported as a random burglary gone violent. When the FBI stalls the investigation, the skeptical Colonel orders his brash, adventurous Director of Security, Jack Vavak, to investigate. Teamed up with a group of Colonel Haines' former military associates and the victim's beautiful twin sister, the investigation leads to a shocking web of political and international intrigue. Fighting a personal vendetta from a hostile senator, scandalous articles written by a leftist newspaper reporter, and years of audits by the Internal Revenue Service, the Colonel and his investigative cadre uncover a treasonous conspiracy that may include a connection to the New York City Hall, the US Justice Department, and even the White House. Becoming targets themselves, the Colonel and his people must solve this mystery and expose these conspirators before the lives of his entire family, as well as everyone he cares about, face grave danger. Quest for Power is a riveting political thriller, the story of the unlimited means corrupt politicians will endeavor to gain power and how a multi-trillion dollar federal government could serve to undermine national security and potentially bring down the world's greatest nation.

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James Herbert Harrison

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1432796836

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9781432796839

Public Administration

By: Herbert A. Simon,Donald W. Smithburg,Victor A. Thompson

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Public Administration

By: Herbert A. Simon,Donald W. Smithburg,Victor A. Thompson

At the time of its initial publication, Public Administration helped to define this field of study and practice by introducing two major new emphases: an orientation toward human behavior and human relations in organizations, and an emphasis on the interaction between administration, politics, and policy. Without neglecting more traditional concerns with organization structure, Simon, Thompson, and Smithburg viewed administration in its behavioral and political contexts. The viewpoints they express still are at the center of public administration's concerns.

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Routledge

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135149578X

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Old Forts of the Northwest

By: Herbert M. Hart,Paul J. Hartle

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Old Forts of the Northwest

By: Herbert M. Hart,Paul J. Hartle

Beyond the wide Missouri lay the prairie—“the biggest clearing on the Almighty’s footstool.” And every few hundred miles, holding to the rivers and wooded bottoms, were the outposts of the white civilization—the military forts of the U.S. Army. Father, mother and comforter to the settlers, trading points for the trappers and buffalo hunters, rallying points for the scouts. Awaiting the reader of this sentimental journey into the days of “Boots and Saddles,” are the graphic stories of battles against Indians and boredom. A military man, author Hart has the feel of these men who did the fighting and their places of conflict and refuge. He recounts the Bloody Bozeman outrage, Red Cloud’s War of 1866-68, and the pre-Civil War fights that seasoned lieutenants for the stars of Union and Confederate generals. It is a thrilling experience to read of the forts that opened the West for the stages, river boats and wagon trains...of those that protected the white man from the Indians and others that protected Indians from the whites...of those “hog and hominy” forts that gave solace to settlers who waited for the Indian attacks that never came...of the places called “Hog Ranches” that provided soldiers with entertainment lacking at Army posts...and of those forts George Armstrong Custer called home. With all this there are portraits, in both word and photograph, of the many famous generals who rode this frontier of history: Sherman, Sheridan, Crook, Custer, Harney, Sully, Connor, Mackenzie, Howard, Miles, Terry, Carrington, de Trobriand, Gibbon and Canby.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1789127793

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9781789127799

Idols for Destruction

The Conflict of Christian Faith and American Culture

By: Herbert Schlossberg

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Idols for Destruction

The Conflict of Christian Faith and American Culture

By: Herbert Schlossberg

The bookshelf next to my desk holds Christian classics and books I refer to often. Idols sits on that shelf, for Herb's lucid critique has been an invaluable reference for my own writings. It helps believers to understand the ideologies that undergird secular culture, and how they dramatically--and dangerously--differ from the Judeo-Christian view based on adherence to absolute truth." --Charles Colson, Prison Fellowship "Well-written and highly readable... discerning and critical analysis of our times; a stimulating contribution." --Carl F. H. Henry "This book has become a vade mecum for thousands of Christians who understand the cultural disaster of our time and are determined to do something about it." --Richard John Neuhaus, Editor-in-chief, First Things "Now that Francis Schaeffer is no longer with us, Schlossberg is just about the most provocative Christian thinker around." --Harold O. J. Brown, Professor of Theology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School "Years before anyone talked about an American 'culture war, ' Herb Schlossberg penned an acute description of the crisis of virtue that is the domestic issue of the 1990s. His diagnosis remains essential reading for everyone who believes that self-governing republic requires self-governing and morally serious citizens." --George Weigel, President, Ethics and Public Policy Center "Thorough, provocative and especially penetrating. If you want to think Christianly about culture Idols for Destruction is must reading " --John H. White, President, Geneva College

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Crossway

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0891077383

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9780891077381

Promises Betrayed

Waking Up from the American Dream

By: Bob Herbert

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Promises Betrayed

Waking Up from the American Dream

By: Bob Herbert

The award-winning New York Times op-ed columnist probes the widening gap between American ideals and American realities, and urges us to do something about it Bob Herbert is the conscience of the op-ed page of The New York Times, and his work is characterized by a strong moral vision and a deep understanding of the human costs of political decisions. From partisan politics to popular culture, from race relations to criminal justice, few journalists bring to life so movingly the stories of ordinary people caught between the American dream and American realities. Whether it is the inherent injustice of the death penalty or the demagoguery of the war on terrorism, Herbert questions whether we are truly upholding our ideals or merely giving them lip service. In Promises Betrayed, Herbert makes the case that in recent years America has too often failed to live up to its creed of fairness and justice in the lives of working people, racial minorities, children, and others not among the powerful. He introduces us to real people facing real problems and trying to maintain their dignity along the way, and he blows the whistle on imperious public officials who think the rules of common decency do not apply to them. Herbert's tenacious reporting has resulted in the overturning of many wrongful convictions and the release of dozens of innocent people from prison. In these and so many other ways, Herbert keeps us all honest and lives up to the journalist's credo: to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

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Macmillan

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1429900482

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9781429900485

Taking Society's Measure

A Personal History of Survey Research

By: Herbert Hyman

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Taking Society's Measure

A Personal History of Survey Research

By: Herbert Hyman

How are we, as members of a society, informed of conditions that affect our social welfare? How does the government register the impact of its actions on its citizens? The turbulent 1930s saw the emergence of sample survey research as an increasingly valuable technique of social inquiry. Perhaps no one championed this nascent discipline as vigorously as Herbert Hyman, one of those pioneering investigators whose talents were so closely associated with the rapid growth of survey research that their professional careers and reputations became virtually indistinguishable from the field itself. Hyman's personal account is a remarkable contribution to the history and sociology of social research. His experiences with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Office of War Information, the U.S. Bombing Surveys of Germany and Japan, the National Opinion Research Center, and the Bureau of Applied Social Research are all documented with fascinating insight into the critical events and prominent individuals that shaped the field of survey research between the late 1930s and the late 1950s.

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Russell Sage Foundation

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1610443012

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Triumph Beyond Silence

Triumph Beyond Silence

Fanny Brice

Fanny Brice

Dangerous Dossiers

Dangerous Dossiers

George Bush

George Bush

Bibliography of the Sioux

Bibliography of the Sioux

Canadian-American Industry

Canadian-American Industry

School Choice

School Choice

Pattern and Process in a Forested Ecosystem

Pattern and Process in a Forested Ecosystem

Quest for Power

Quest for Power

Public Administration

Public Administration

Old Forts of the Northwest

Old Forts of the Northwest

Idols for Destruction

Idols for Destruction

Promises Betrayed

Promises Betrayed

Taking Society's Measure

Taking Society's Measure

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