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Life: The Movie

How Entertainment Conquered Reality

By: Neal Gabler

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Life: The Movie

How Entertainment Conquered Reality

By: Neal Gabler

The story of how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, and melodrama has turned everything—news, politics, religion, high culture—into one vast public entertainment. Neal Gabler calls them "lifies," those blockbusters written in the medium of life that dominate the media and the national conversation for weeks, months, even years: the death of Princess Diana, the trial of O.J. Simpson, Kenneth Starr vs. William Jefferson Clinton. Real Life as Entertainment is hardly a new phenomenon, but the movies, and now the new information technologies, have so accelerated it that it is now the reigning popular art form. How this came to pass, and just what it means for our culture and our personal lives, is the subject of this witty, concerned, and sometimes eye-opening book. "A thoughtful, in places chilling, account of the way entertainment values have hollowed out American life." --The New York Times Book Review

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Vintage

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0307773256

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An Empire of Their Own

How the Jews Invented Hollywood

By: Neal Gabler

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An Empire of Their Own

How the Jews Invented Hollywood

By: Neal Gabler

A provocative, original, and richly entertaining group biography of the Jewish immigrants who were the moving forces behind the creation of America's motion picture industry. The names Harry Cohn, William Fox, Carl Laemmle, Louis B. Mayer, Jack and Harry Warner, and Adolph Zucker are giants in the history of contemporary Hollywood, outsiders who dared to invent their own vision of the American Dream. Even to this day, the American values defined largely by the movies of these émigrés endure in American cinema and culture. Who these men were, how they came to dominate Hollywood, and what they gained and lost in the process is the exhilarating story of An Empire of Their Own.

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Anchor

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030777371X

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Winchell

Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity

By: Neal Gabler

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Winchell

Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity

By: Neal Gabler

Hailed as the most important and entertaining biography in recent memory, Gabler's account of the life of fast-talking gossip columnist and radio broadcaster Walter Winchell "fuses meticulous research with a deft grasp of the cultural nuances of an era when virtually everyone who mattered paid homage to Winchell" (Time). of photos.

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0679764399

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Against the Wind

Edward Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism, 1976-2009

By: Neal Gabler

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Against the Wind

Edward Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism, 1976-2009

By: Neal Gabler

From the author of Catching the Wind comes the second volume of the definitive biography of Ted Kennedy and a history of modern American liberalism. “Magisterial . . . an intricate, astute study of political power brokering comparable to Robert A. Caro’s profile of Lyndon Johnson in Master of the Senate.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) Against the Wind completes Neal Gabler’s magisterial biography of Ted Kennedy, but it also unfolds the epic, tragic story of the fall of liberalism and the destruction of political morality in America. With Richard Nixon having stilled the liberal wind that once propelled Kennedy’s—and his fallen brothers’—political crusades, Ted Kennedy faced a lonely battle. As Republicans pressed Reaganite dogmas of individual freedom and responsibility and Democratic centrists fell into line, Kennedy was left as the most powerful voice legislating on behalf of those society would neglect or punish: the poor, the working class, and African Americans. Gabler shows how the fault lines that cracked open in the wake of the Civil Rights movement and Vietnam were intentionally widened by Kennedy’s Republican rivals to create a moral vision of America that stood in direct opposition to once broadly shared commitments to racial justice and economic equality. Yet even as he fought this shift, Ted Kennedy’s personal moral failures in this era—the endless rumors of his womanizing and public drunkenness and his bizarre behavior during the events that led to rape accusations against his nephew William Kennedy Smith—would be used again and again to weaken his voice and undercut his claims to political morality. Tracing Kennedy’s life from the wilderness of the Reagan years through the compromises of the Clinton era, from his rage against the craven cruelty of George W. Bush to his hope that Obama would deliver on a lifetime of effort on behalf of universal health care, Gabler unfolds Kennedy’s heroic legislative work against the backdrop of a nation grown lost and fractured. In this outstanding conclusion to the saga that began with Catching the Wind, Neal Gabler offers his inimitable insight into a man who fought to keep liberalism alive when so many were determined to extinguish it. Against the Wind sheds new light both on a revered figure in the American Century and on America’s current existential crisis.

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Crown

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0593238648

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Barbra Streisand

Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power

By: Neal Gabler

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Barbra Streisand

Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power

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Biografie van de Amerikaanse zangeres (1942- ).

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Yale University Press

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0300210914

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9780300210910

Life: The Movie

How Entertainment Conquered Reality

By: Neal Gabler

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How Entertainment Conquered Reality

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Walt Disney

The Triumph of the American Imagination

By: Neal Gabler

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Walt Disney

The Triumph of the American Imagination

By: Neal Gabler

The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history: Walt Disney. Walt Disney was a true visionary whose desire for escape, iron determination and obsessive perfectionism transformed animation from a novelty to an art form, first with Mickey Mouse and then with his feature films–most notably Snow White, Fantasia, and Bambi. In his superb biography, Neal Gabler shows us how, over the course of two decades, Disney revolutionized the entertainment industry. In a way that was unprecedented and later widely imitated, he built a synergistic empire that combined film, television, theme parks, music, book publishing, and merchandise. Walt Disney is a revelation of both the work and the man–of both the remarkable accomplishment and the hidden life. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography USA Today Biography of the Year

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An Empire of Their Own

How the Jews Invented Hollywood

By: Neal Gabler

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How the Jews Invented Hollywood

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Catching the Wind

Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975

By: Neal Gabler

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Catching the Wind

Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975

By: Neal Gabler

NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “One of the truly great biographies of our time.”—Sean Wilentz, New York Times bestselling author of Bob Dylan in America and The Rise of American Democracy “A landmark study of Washington power politics in the twentieth century in the Robert Caro tradition.”—Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of American Moonshot The epic, definitive biography of Ted Kennedy—an immersive journey through the life of a complicated man and a sweeping history of the fall of liberalism and the collapse of political morality. Catching the Wind is the first volume of Neal Gabler’s magisterial two-volume biography of Edward Kennedy. It is at once a human drama, a history of American politics in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and a study of political morality and the role it played in the tortuous course of liberalism. Though he is often portrayed as a reckless hedonist who rode his father’s fortune and his brothers’ coattails to a Senate seat at the age of thirty, the Ted Kennedy in Catching the Wind is one the public seldom saw—a man both racked by and driven by insecurity, a man so doubtful of himself that he sinned in order to be redeemed. The last and by most contemporary accounts the least of the Kennedys, a lightweight. He lived an agonizing childhood, being shuffled from school to school at his mother’s whim, suffering numerous humiliations—including self-inflicted ones—and being pressed to rise to his brothers’ level. He entered the Senate with his colleagues’ lowest expectations, a show horse, not a workhorse, but he used his “ninth-child’s talent” of deference to and comity with his Senate elders to become a promising legislator. And with the deaths of his brothers John and Robert, he was compelled to become something more: the custodian of their political mission. In Catching the Wind, Kennedy, using his late brothers’ moral authority, becomes a moving force in the great “liberal hour,” which sees the passage of the anti-poverty program and the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts. Then, with the election of Richard Nixon, he becomes the leading voice of liberalism itself at a time when its power is waning: a “shadow president,” challenging Nixon to keep the American promise to the marginalized, while Nixon lives in terror of a Kennedy restoration. Catching the Wind also shows how Kennedy’s moral authority is eroded by the fatal auto accident on Chappaquiddick Island in 1969, dealing a blow not just to Kennedy but to liberalism. In this sweeping biography, Gabler tells a story that is Shakespearean in its dimensions: the story of a star-crossed figure who rises above his seeming limitations and the tragedy that envelopes him to change the face of America.

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0307405451

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9780307405456

Television's Changing Image of American Jews

By: Neal Gabler

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Television's Changing Image of American Jews

By: Neal Gabler

There are Jewish communal concerns about television, its Portrayel of Jewish characters and themes, and the core values the programming Transmits. To accomplish this objectives the American Jewish Committe with others convened an historic conference with leaders of the television industry. the themes discussed about are showed in this book.

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The Norman Lear Center

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0971401861

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Winchell

Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity

By: Neal Gabler

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Winchell

Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity

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Barbra Streisand

Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power

By: Neal Gabler

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Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power

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Biografie van de Amerikaanse zangeres (1942- ).

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Yale University Press

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Experiencing Creativity

On the Social Psychology of Art

By: Robert Neal Wilson

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Experiencing Creativity

On the Social Psychology of Art

By: Robert Neal Wilson

First published in 1986, neither the creative process nor the art object, singly or together, has been often in the forefront of sociological attention. This is a study building on Harry Murray's classic Explorations in Personality of the 1930s.

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Transaction Publishers

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141282320X

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Emigrants from France (Haut-Rhin Department) to America. Part 1 (1837-1844) and Part 2 (1845-1847)

By: Clifford Neal Smith

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Emigrants from France (Haut-Rhin Department) to America. Part 1 (1837-1844) and Part 2 (1845-1847)

By: Clifford Neal Smith

Reprinted, two parts in one volume, for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, Maryland 2004.

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0806352329

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Harry Finds a Good Murder

By: Neal Enrick

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Harry Finds a Good Murder

By: Neal Enrick

A haughty victim with a houseful of enemies makes for a jaunty murder-mystery in mid-century America"--Back cover

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Lulu.com

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0998900370

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9780998900377

Managing Emotions in the Workplace

By: Neal M. Ashkanasy,Wilfred J. Zerbe,Charmine E. J. Hartel

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Managing Emotions in the Workplace

By: Neal M. Ashkanasy,Wilfred J. Zerbe,Charmine E. J. Hartel

The modern workplace is often thought of as cold and rational, as no place for the experience and expression of emotions. Yet it is no more emotionless than any other aspect of life. Individuals bring their affective states and emotional "buttons" to work, leaders try to engender feelings of passion and enthusiasm for the organization and its mission, and consultants seek to increase job satisfaction, commitment, and trust. This book advances the understanding of the causes and effects of emotions at work and extends existing theories to consider implications for the management of emotions. The international cast of authors examines the practical issues raised when organizations are studied as places where emotions are aroused, suppressed, used, and avoided. This book also joins the debate on how organizations and individuals ought to manage emotions in the workplace. Managing Emotions in the Workplace is designed for use in graduate level courses in Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, or Organizational Development - any course in which the role of emotions in the workplace is a central concern. Scholars and consultants will also find this book to be an essential resource on the latest theory and practice in this emerging field.

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Routledge

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1315290790

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Reconstructed Passenger Lists for 1850

Hamburg to Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, and the United States

By: Clifford Neal Smith

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Reconstructed Passenger Lists for 1850

Hamburg to Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, and the United States

By: Clifford Neal Smith

Working from microfilm copies of the Hamburg police lists, Clifford Neal Smith has here reconstructed the identities of about 7,000 Hamburg passengers whose names were found among 60 separate lists for the year 1850. For each entry the compiler provides the following information: passenger's surname, given name, occupation, birthplace, and reference number from the police register.

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0806352787

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A Curious Man

The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe it Or Not" Ripley

By: Neal Thompson

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A Curious Man

The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe it Or Not" Ripley

By: Neal Thompson

The marvelously compelling biography of Robert Ripley, the enigmatic cartoonist turned globetrotting millionaire who won international fame by celebrating the world's strangest oddities.

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Crown Archetype

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077043620X

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Strategies for University Management, Volume II

By: J. Mark Munoz,Neal King

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Strategies for University Management, Volume II

By: J. Mark Munoz,Neal King

The state of affairs of contemporary higher education has been described as chaotic, highly competitive, and constrained with institutional roadblocks and bureaucracy. Despite obstacles, several academic leaders defied conventional wisdom and took on an aggressive path toward innovation and change. This book captures the viewpoints of thought leaders in the contemporary education landscape. With insights from academic administrators and experts from around the world, this book is poised to be the official “how to guide” for success in the management of educational institutions. Volume II focuses on the organizing and controlling management functions of universities.

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Business Expert Press

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1631574043

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Against the Wind

Edward Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism, 1976-2009

By: Neal Gabler

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Edward Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism, 1976-2009

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Catching the Wind

Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975

By: Neal Gabler

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Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975

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Texas Government, Policy and Politics, Election Update

By: Neal R. Tannahill

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Texas Government, Policy and Politics, Election Update

By: Neal R. Tannahill

With an emphasis on policy and active learning, Texas Government: Policy and Politics is a popular and accessible text that is sure to engage students in Texas politics. Known for its exceptionally accessible and comprehensive coverage of the major aspects of Texas government and politics, this text is a complete teaching and learning package for students with little or no background in political science or Texas politics. It employs an emphasis on policy throughout the book, helping to make material relevant to students' lives. The author is known for his ability to provide statistical detail in an extremely lucid, non-intimidating way and his often humorous, insightful critique of Texas government. The seventh edition is thoroughly updated to include new information on topics such as controversy on school funding, campaign finance from the 2000 election, an overview of the 2002 elections, and so much more. At only 13 chapters, Tannahill's text is perfect for a 15-week semester, giving instructors and students no more and no less than they need for the average semester.

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Longman Publishing Group

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0321169581

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Rolling on the River

The Best of Steve Neal

By: Steve Neal

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Rolling on the River

The Best of Steve Neal

By: Steve Neal

In these pages, you'll meet the state legislator who never met a special interest he did not like, an alderman groveling to a mob boss, and the prosecutor who gained notoriety as a publicity hound."--BOOK JACKET. "Neal's beat is politics, but his interests are rich and varied. He also writes about sports, music, literature, and film with a point of view that is fresh and original."--BOOK JACKET.

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