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"But He Doesn't Know the Territory"

The Story behind Meredith Willson's The Music Man

By: Meredith Willson

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"But He Doesn't Know the Territory"

The Story behind Meredith Willson's The Music Man

By: Meredith Willson

Chronicles the creation of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man—reprinted now as the Broadway Edition Composer Meredith Willson described The Music Man as “an Iowan’s attempt to pay tribute to his home state.” Now featuring a new foreword by noted singer and educator Michael Feinstein, this book presents Willson’s reflections on the ups and downs, surprises and disappointments, and finally successes of making one of America’s most popular musicals. Willson’s whimsical, personable writing style brings readers back in time with him to the 1950s to experience firsthand the exciting trials and tribulations of creating a Broadway masterpiece. Fresh admiration of the musical—and the man behind the music—is sure to result.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452965013

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9781452965017

But He Doesn't Know the Territory

By: Meredith Willson

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But He Doesn't Know the Territory

By: Meredith Willson

Originally published in 1959 by G. P. Putnam's Sons.

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193

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0816670781

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9780816670789

And There I Stood with My Piccolo

By: Meredith Willson

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And There I Stood with My Piccolo

By: Meredith Willson

And There I Stood with My Piccolo, originally published in 1948, is a zesty and colorful memoir of composer Meredith Willson’s early years—from growing up in Mason City, Iowa, to playing the flute with John Philip Sousa’s band and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, to a successful career in composing for radio and motion pictures in Hollywood. It was apparent to everyone, except maybe Willson himself, that he was on his way to something big. Lighthearted and inspiring, it is no surprise Willson’s tales caught the attention of prominent Broadway producers. In 1957, just nine years after the publication of this book, The Music Man became a Broadway sensation, winning five Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Meredith Willson’s musical comedy is to this day arguably the most produced and beloved musical in American culture.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452942722

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9781452942728

"But He Doesn't Know the Territory"

The Story behind Meredith Willson's The Music Man

By: Meredith Willson

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By: Meredith Willson

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By: Meredith Willson

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By: Meredith Willson

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Armed with Abundance

Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War

By: Meredith H. Lair

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Armed with Abundance

Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War

By: Meredith H. Lair

Popular representations of the Vietnam War tend to emphasize violence, deprivation, and trauma. By contrast, in Armed with Abundance, Meredith Lair focuses on the noncombat experiences of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, redrawing the landscape of the war so that swimming pools, ice cream, visits from celebrities, and other "comforts" share the frame with combat. To address a tenuous morale situation, military authorities, Lair reveals, wielded abundance to insulate soldiers--and, by extension, the American public--from boredom and deprivation, making the project of war perhaps easier and certainly more palatable. The result was dozens of overbuilt bases in South Vietnam that grew more elaborate as the war dragged on. Relying on memoirs, military documents, and G.I. newspapers, Lair finds that consumption and satiety, rather than privation and sacrifice, defined most soldiers' Vietnam deployments. Abundance quarantined the U.S. occupation force from the impoverished people it ostensibly had come to liberate, undermining efforts to win Vietnamese "hearts and minds" and burdening veterans with disappointment that their wartime service did not measure up to public expectations. With an epilogue that finds a similar paradigm at work in Iraq, Armed with Abundance offers a unique and provocative perspective on modern American warfare.

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320

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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080786918X

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9780807869185

Shakespeare the Actor and the Purposes of Playing

By: Meredith Anne Skura

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Shakespeare the Actor and the Purposes of Playing

By: Meredith Anne Skura

For the Renaissance, all the world may have been a stage and all its people players, but Shakespeare was also an actor on the literal stage. Meredith Anne Skura asks what it meant to be an actor in Shakespeare's England and shows why a knowledge of actual theatrical practices is essential for understanding both Shakespeare's plays and the theatricality of everyday life in early modern England. Despite the obvious differences between our theater and Shakespeare's, sixteenth-century testimony suggests that the experience of acting has not changed much over the centuries. Beginning with a psychoanalytically informed account of acting today, Skura shows how this intense and ambivalent experience appears not only in literal references to acting in Shakespearean drama but also in recurring narrative concerns, details of language, and dramatic strategies used to engage the audience. Looking at the plays in the context of both public and private worlds outside the theater, Skura rereads the canon to identify new configurations in the plays and new ways of understanding theatrical self-consciousness in Renaissance England. Rich in theatrical, psychoanalytic, biographical, and historical insight, this book will be invaluable to students of Shakespeare and instructive to all readers interested in the dynamics of performance.

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348

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University of Chicago Press

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0226761800

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9780226761800

The Pilot and the Commando

The Interlinked Lives of Two Young Christians in the Second World War

By: Anthony Meredith

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The Pilot and the Commando

The Interlinked Lives of Two Young Christians in the Second World War

By: Anthony Meredith

The Pilot And The Commando tells the stories of David Carter MBE (a Fleet Air Arm pilot) and his close friend Jos Nicholl MC (an Army commando), giving fresh and vivid insights into what it meant to be a young man on active service in the Second World War, fighting in places as remote as Ceylon, Africa, Madagascar, Yugoslavia and Albania. Major events in which they participated also included the sinking of the Ark Royal off Gibraltar, the Allied landings at Salerno and the liberation of Sicily and Italy. A final chapter puts their wartime service into the context of their later lives. The Pilot And The Commando is much more, however, than just a stirring commemoration of bravery in action. Both David and Jos were committed Christians, and the book (much helped by the use of diaries and letters) has as its central theme the testing and strengthening of their faith through times of deep adversity. Writing of his experiences soon after the war, Jos Nicholl concluded: I have found that Jesus Christ provides the inspiration for every possible occasion or need. He can act as guide and helper and comforter, but primarily He can be the driving force in a life that is devoted to Him, and with this compelling power behind them it becomes true in practice that the people that do know their God shall be strong and do exploits These words find complete exemplification in The Pilot And The Commando. David and Joss story is both uplifting and challenging.

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221

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Author House

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146787762X

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9781467877626

Educational Research

An Introduction

By: Meredith D. Gall,Walter R. Borg,Joyce P. Gall

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Educational Research

An Introduction

By: Meredith D. Gall,Walter R. Borg,Joyce P. Gall

Educational Research, 6/e, provides the most comprehensive introduction to the major research methods and types of data analysis used in educational inquiry today. Sixth Edition includes extensive coverage of qualitative inquiry.

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818

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Allyn & Bacon

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0801309808

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9780801309809

Book's by Meredith Willson

"But He Doesn't Know the Territory"

"But He Doesn't Know the Territory"

But He Doesn't Know the Territory

But He Doesn't Know the Territory

And There I Stood with My Piccolo

And There I Stood with My Piccolo

"But He Doesn't Know the Territory"

"But He Doesn't Know the Territory"

And There I Stood with My Piccolo

And There I Stood with My Piccolo

Armed with Abundance

Armed with Abundance

Shakespeare the Actor and the Purposes of Playing

Shakespeare the Actor and the Purposes of Playing

The Pilot and the Commando

The Pilot and the Commando

Educational Research

Educational Research

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