William Bigelow's Books

Where's Daddy?

A Two-act Comedy

By: William Inge

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THE STORY: As Richard Watts, Jr. comments, Although Mr. Inge is fair and sympathetic to both sides, it would seem that he inclines slightly to the cause of the older generation. This, however, is one of the deftest touches in his treatment of the

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Dramatists Play Service Inc

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0822212420

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9780822212423

The Letters of William Cullen Bryant

By: William Cullen Bryant

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The Letters of William Cullen Bryant

By: William Cullen Bryant

In January 1872, Bryant traveled to Mexico City, where he was greeted warmly by President Benito Juarez; on this and other occasions he was feted for the Evening Post's sturdy condemnation in 1863 of the abortive invasion of Mexico, which was freshly remembered there. At the close of his visit a local newspaper remarked that the "honors and hospitality which were so lavishly and generously conferred upon him were the spontaneous outpouring of a grateful people, who had not forgotten that when Mexico was friendless Mr. Bryant became her friend." Returning in April through New Orleans and up the Mississippi by steamboat to Cincinnati, he was greeted at a public reception by Governor Rutherford Hayes, who was pleased by his "winning and lovable" manners and "pithy" anecdotes. That spring Bryant built a library for his birthplace, Cummington, stocking it with several thousand books procured for him by the publisher George Palmer Putnam in New York and London. The following year, after the last of his many travels - this time a revisit to South Carolina and Florida - he made a similar gift to Roslyn. These benefactions won him honorary membership in the newly formed American Library Association, and an invitation to open a library at Princeton University, which made him an honorary doctor of letters. Ultimately, in the final year of his life, his plans for the Bryant Library at Cummington, solicited from the White House by President Hayes, provided the basic design for the first presidential library in the country - that established by Hayes in Fremont, Ohio. An improbable by-product of the presidential race in 1872 was a proposal by leading journalists that Bryant become -in his seventy-eighth year - a candidate to oppose President Grant and his challenger for the Republican nomination, the mercurial editor of the New York Tribune, Horace Greeley. Bryant's immediate refusal to take the suggestion seriously was succinct, and tinged with humor. It was impossible, he declared in his newspaper, that he should receive the nomination, and "equally impossible," if it were offered, that he should "commit the folly of accepting it." Four years later he was distressed at being unable to switch his journal's support of the Republican candidate Hayes to the Democratic candidate, his old companion in political reform, Samuel Jones Tilden. As Bryant approached and entered his eighties, his writing and public speaking continued without slackening. Between 1872 and 1878 he published his collected Orations and Addresses, edited a revision of his anthology of poetry and two volumes of landscape sketches, Picturesque America, co-authored a four-volume Popular History of the United States, and undertook to co-edit a three-volume set of Shakespeare's plays, while also producing long monographs on several seventeenth-century English poets. He dedicated statues of Shakespeare, Walter Scott, and Fitz-Green Halleck in Central Park, and spoke elsewhere on Robert Burns, Benjamin Franklin, Goethe, and Shakespeare, gave speeches on Mexico and "National Honesty," and presided over the founding of the State Charities Aid Association. He was honored in Albany at receptions by each house of the legislature. For his eightieth birthday, his life's work was celebrated in silver on a Tiffany vase given him by admirers throughout the country. Bryant's last public act was to unveil, in Central Park, his brainchild of nearly a half century earlier: a bust of the Italian patriot Giuseppe Mazzini. Here, after exhaustion under the June sun, he fell and suffered a massive concussion followed by a stroke, which led to his death a fortnight later in his eighty-fourth year. A period of virtual national mourning preceded his funeral and his burial beside his wife at Roslyn. At one of many memorial services, a eulogist exclaimed, "The broad outline of his character had become universally familiar, like a mountain or a sea. Whoever saw Bryant saw America." The Letters of William Cullen Bryant: Volume VI, 1872-1878 is available from the publisher on an open-access basis.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823209962

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9780823209965

The Hour of Death

By: William W. Johnstone,J.A. Johnstone

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The Hour of Death

By: William W. Johnstone,J.A. Johnstone

USA Today bestselling author: Sixkiller tails a troublemaker to a corrupt Wyoming town—where he has to fight off everyone from the mayor on down . . . William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone, the beloved, bestselling frontier writers, chronicle the true story of John Henry Sixkiller: born on a Cherokee reservation, known as the most cunning lawman in the West. Think like a criminal. Strike like the law . . . Sixkiller has come to Ringgold, Wyoming, on the trail of Bart Skillern, a vicious murderer he's been carefully stalking for weeks. But before Sixkiller can strike, Skillern takes a job with the town's duly elected mayor, a politician so corrupt that the only way to get near him is by being even more corrupt. So Sixkiller takes a job as a hired gun, and sets out to destroy the mayor's gang from inside out. Sixkiller's carefully masked plan is just about to work when he discovers that, except for one beautiful, crusading newspaper woman, there's not a decent soul in Ringgold to take over from the power-crazed mayor. Now Sixkiller can't leave Ringgold behind until he tears it apart—pitting one bad man against the other and praying that the Lord and a Colt will somehow sort them out . . .

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Pinnacle Books

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0786031255

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L.A. Noir

Nine Dark Visions of the City of Angels

By: William Hare

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L.A. Noir

Nine Dark Visions of the City of Angels

By: William Hare

Los Angeles is an ideal city for film noir for both economic and aesthetic reasons. The largest metropolitan area in the country, home to an ever-changing population of the disillusioned and in close proximity to city, mountains, ocean, and desert, the City of Angels became a center of American film noir. This detailed discussion of nine films explores such topics as why certain settings are appropriate for film noir, why L.A. has been a favorite of authors such as Raymond Chandler, and relevant political developments in the area. The films are also examined in terms of story content as well as how they developed in the project stage. Utilizing a number of quotes from interviews, the work examines actors, directors, and others involved with the films, touching on their careers and details of their time in L.A. The major films covered are The Big Sleep, Criss Cross, D.O.A., In A Lonely Place, The Blue Gardenia, Kiss Me Deadly, The Killing, Chinatown, and L.A. Confidential.

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McFarland

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0786437405

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Cape Cod

By: William Martin

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Cape Cod

By: William Martin

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Engrossing...entertaining...the perfect book to take to the beach." - Boston Herald Two families, both carried by the Mayflower across stormy seas... both destined to generations of proud leadership, shameful intrigue, and passion for the sandy crest of land that became their heritage... This is the story of the Bigelow and Hilyard clans, from their first years on America's shores, through the fury of her wars and the glory of her triumphs, to our own time when young Geoff Hilyard must fight to save both his marriage to a Bigelow heir and the windswept coast he loves. It is a struggle that will take him deep into the past, to a centuries-old feud that never died..And on a dangerous quest for a priceless relic of American history that has lain hidden in the Cape for over two hundred years.

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Grand Central Publishing

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1455523720

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9781455523726

Needles

By: William Deverell

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Needles

By: William Deverell

A prosecutor fights a drug trafficker—and his own heroin addiction—in this thriller from a winner of the Dashiell Hammett Prize and Arthur Ellis Award. Lawyer Foster Cobb’s objective is to bring down the mysterious Dr. Au, responsible for the drugs that flow through Vancouver. But under the pressure of a disintegrating career and marriage, Cobb himself has himself taken up a long-abandoned heroin habit. With a racing plot and dramatic twists, Needles plunges into a seedy 1970s underworld of crooked cops, Asian drug lords, and tense courtroom scenes. A winner of the Seal First Novel Prize, it’s a riveting tale of crime and justice with “surprises like shattering glass” (Philadelphia Bulletin), from an author who has sold over a million copies. “Spellbinding, first-rate.” —The Buffalo News

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ECW Press

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1770905391

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9781770905399

The Black Regulars, 1866–1898

By: William A. Dobak,Thomas D. Phillips

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The Black Regulars, 1866–1898

By: William A. Dobak,Thomas D. Phillips

Black soldiers first entered the regular army of the United States in the summer of 1866. While their segregated regiments served in the American West for the following three decades, the promise of Reconstruction gave way to the repressiveness of Jim Crow. But black men found a degree of equality in the service: the army treated them no worse than it did their white counterparts. The Black Regulars uses army correspondence, court-martial transcripts, and pension applications to tell who these men were, often in their own words: how they were recruited and how their officers were selected; how the black regiments survived hostile congressional hearings and stringent budget cuts; how enlisted men spent their time, both on and off duty; and how regimental chaplains tried to promote literacy through the army’s schools. The authors shed new light on the military justice system, relations between black troops and their mostly white civilian neighbors, their professional reputations, and what veterans faced when they left the army for civilian life.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806158158

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9780806158150

The Public Face of Wilkie Collins Vol 3

The Collected Letters

By: Andrew Gasson,Graham Law,William Baker

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The Public Face of Wilkie Collins Vol 3

The Collected Letters

By: Andrew Gasson,Graham Law,William Baker

The editors have transcribed 2,500 of Wilkie Collins's letters, around 700 of them previously unidentified, and have given them all a full scholarly annotation and context. The letters shed light on the personal life and business activities of this creative Victorian personality.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040249027

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9781040249024

Land and Liberty

Henry George and the Crafting of Modern Liberalism

By: Christopher William England

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Land and Liberty

Henry George and the Crafting of Modern Liberalism

By: Christopher William England

This work is a comprehensive treatment of the single-tax movement. The author studied a network of well-connected political entrepreneurs committed to Henry George's plan to effectively nationalize land through a confiscatory tax in the early twentieth century in the United States"--

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JHU Press

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1421445409

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9781421445403

The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison

By: William Lloyd Garrison

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The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison

By: William Lloyd Garrison

Collected letters of newspaper editor, reformer, and key American abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison from 1822, at age 17, to his death in 1879... These volumes are an important source of historical and biographical documentation -- with contextual insight by the editors, offering extensive insight into the mind of this influential reformer. Topics seen within include race relations, abolition of slavery, the rights of women, the role of religion and religious institutions, and the relation of the state and its citizens."--

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Harvard University Press

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0674526651

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9780674526655

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Where's Daddy?

Where's Daddy?

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The Letters of William Cullen Bryant

The Hour of Death

The Hour of Death

L.A. Noir

L.A. Noir

Cape Cod

Cape Cod

Needles

Needles

The Black Regulars, 1866–1898

The Black Regulars, 1866–1898

The Public Face of Wilkie Collins Vol 3

The Public Face of Wilkie Collins Vol 3

Land and Liberty

Land and Liberty

The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison

The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison

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