John Kedzie Jacobs is ninety-five years old. In this heartbreaking memoir he collects the letters of his brilliant, lost older brother and brings us into the world of the Great Depression -- what he calls that "wonderful, dreadful, wonderful period" in America. The Jacobs brothers grew up in a nervous, brainy family on a struggling Hudson Valley apple farm. In 1932 Edward went to New York City to study at the Art Students League in a class with Jackson Pollock where his teachers included Thomas Hart Benton and George Grosz. He painted murals for Roosevelt's Work Projects Administration and was an active member of the communist party. In early 1937 he joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and went to Spain to fight with the Loyalists against Franco. He was executed there by Franco's army in March, 1938. He was twenty-four years old. John Jacobs moved back to the farm when he retired from the United States Information Agency. His wife Katia found a trove of letters in the attic, many of them to and from Eddie. The letters chronicle his days at a Quaker boarding school in Poughkeepsie; his thrilling time as a broke, passionate, political artist in New York; a cross-country trip riding the rails and camping in the hobo jungles of the Great Depression; and finally his revelatory, soaring time in Spain, as a member of the International Brigade. Friends and teachers come to life in his letters, bringing the era into full, present color. John was a freshman at Antioch College when Edward was lost in Spain. Reading these letters for the first time at eighty-three, he found someone very different from the challenging, intense brother he remembered. Living in the house where they grew up together, he undertook this extraordinary act of brotherly love. Full of family stories, questions about memory and myth, drawings and paintings and photographs, The Stranger in the Attic is a fully alive, immediate and deeply affecting picture of an American family and their time in history.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. Containing the titles added from the foundation of the library to April 1st. 1865, together with an alphabetical index to the whole.
Published in Wisconsin's Sesquicentennial year, this fourth volume in The History of Wisconsin series covers the twenty tumultuous years between the World's Columbian Exposition and the First World War when Wisconsin essentially reinvented itself, becoming the nation's "laboratory of democracy." The period known as the Progressive Era began to emerge in the mid-1890s. A sense of crisis and a widespread clamor for reform arose in reaction to rapid changes in population, technology, work, and society. Wisconsinites responded with action: their advocacy of women's suffrage, labor rights and protections, educational reform, increased social services, and more responsive government led to a veritable flood of reform legislation that established Wisconsin as the most progressive state in the union. As governor and U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, Robert M. La Follette, Sr., was the most celebrated of the Progressives, but he was surrounded by a host of pragmatic idealists from politics, government, and the state university. Although the Progressives frequently disagreed over priorities and tactics, their values and core beliefs coalesced around broad-based participatory democracy, the application of scientific expertise to governance, and an active concern for the welfare of all members of society-what came to be known as "the Wisconsin Idea.
More than 3,000 of the best doctors in the Chicago area are listed and profiled in this valuable resource. Vital information on more than 25 of the region's leading medical centers and hospitals is included, along with a special Centers of Excellence section that profiles outstanding hospital programs in such areas as cancer, cardiac surgery, women's health, and sports medicine. Readers will learn what makes a doctor the best and what criteria to go by when choosing a physician. This objective guide is the product of an extensive survey process in which more than 11,000 doctors, nurses, and hospital administrators were asked, To whom would you send members of your own family?
The second edition of History of the Development of Building Construction in Chicago is a tribute to Frank Randall's vision and resource to Chicago area architects, engineers, preservation specialists, and other members of the building industry."--BOOK JACKET.
The information revolution is leading to the rise of network forms of organization, with unusual implications for how societies are organized and conflicts are conducted. "Netwar" is an emerging consequence. The term refers to societal conflict and crime, short of war, in which the antagonists are organized more as sprawling "leaderless" networks than as tight-knit hierarchies. Many terrorists, criminals, fundamentalists, and ethno-nationalists are developing netwar capabilities. A new generation of revolutionaries and militant radicals is also emerging, with new doctrines, strategies, and technologies that support their reliance on network forms of organization. Netwar may be the dominant mode of societal conflict in the 21st century. These conclusions are implied by the evolution of societies, according to a framework presented in this RAND study. The emergence of netwar raises the need to rethink strategy and doctrine to conduct counternetwar. Traditional notions of war and low-intensity conflict as a sequential process based on massing, maneuvering, and fighting will likely prove inadequate to cope with nonlinear, swarm-like, information-age conflicts in which societal and military elements are closely intermingled.
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