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Assault on the Media

The Nixon Years

By: William Earl Porter,Thomas A. Mascaro

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Assault on the Media

The Nixon Years

By: William Earl Porter,Thomas A. Mascaro

Assault on the Media: The Nixon Years, New and Expanded Edition, uses a 21st century perspective to revaluate the media warfare of the late 1960s and 1970s and its lasting effects. Although it is well known Nixon reveled in his abrasive relationship with the press, documents published since that era reveal the motivations that drove members of the administration to divert attention from illegal, undemocratic, discriminatory, or mean-spirited approaches to governance. Informed by a half-century of historical analyses and released documents, this expanded edition of William E. Porter’s award-winning Assault on the Media analyzes new documents of significance; synthesizes recent historical analyses; incorporates legal evaluations by journalism scholars; and traces how Nixon-era plans cultivated the divisive state of 21st-century society and amplified assaults on journalism. It also evaluates lasting concerns about the Supreme Court’s Pentagon Papers decision and journalists cited for contempt as a form of prior restraint; the currencies of power and race in protecting confidential sources; and regulatory decisions that hamper effective journalism. Assault on the Media not only documents the incidents and circumstances of governmental intimidation, harassment, and regulation of the news media during the Nixon presidency, but it offers insights into the long-term effects and their relevance today.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472221019

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9780472221011

Wrong Window!

By: William Van Zandt,Jane Milmore

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Wrong Window!

By: William Van Zandt,Jane Milmore

Neighbors in a New York City high-rise apartment think they witness a murder across the courtyard.

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Samuel French, Inc.

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0573698325

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9780573698323

Splendor in the Grass

By: F. Andrew Leslie,William Inge

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Splendor in the Grass

By: F. Andrew Leslie,William Inge

THE STORY: Good looking, a star athlete, and son of the richest man in town, Bud Stamper is the prize catch in his high-school class, and Deanie Loomis is the girl lucky enough to get him. But both Bud and Deanie are disturbed by the powerful feeli

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

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0822210665

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9780822210665

The Last Tycoons

The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co.

By: William D. Cohan

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The Last Tycoons

The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co.

By: William D. Cohan

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A tale of vaulting ambitions, explosive feuds, worldly mistresses, fabulous art collections, and enormous wealth—a story of high drama in the world of high finance. • "Rips the roof off of one of Wall Street's most storied investment banks." —Vanity Fair Wall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most powerful firms, Lazard Frères & Co. stood apart. Discretion, secrecy, and subtle strategy were its weapons of choice. For more than a century, the mystique and reputation of the "Great Men" who worked there allowed the firm to garner unimaginable profits, social cachet, and outsized influence in the halls of power. But in the mid-1980s, their titanic egos started getting in the way, and the Great Men of Lazard jeopardized all they had built. William D. Cohan, himself a former high-level Wall Street banker, takes the reader into the mysterious and secretive world of Lazard and presents a compelling portrait of Wall Street through the tumultuous history of this exalted and fascinating company. Cohan deconstructs the explosive feuds between Felix Rohatyn and Steve Rattner, superstar investment bankers and pillars of New York society, and between the man who controlled Lazard, the inscrutable French billionaire Michel David-Weill, and his chosen successor, Bruce Wasserstein. Cohan follows Felix, the consummate adviser, as he reshapes corporate America in the 1970s and 1980s, saves New York City from bankruptcy, and positions himself in New York society and in Washington. Felix’s dreams are dashed after the arrival of Steve, a formidable and ambitious former newspaper reporter. By the mid-1990s, as Lazard neared its 150th anniversary, Steve and Felix were feuding openly. The internal strife caused by their arguments could not be solved by the imperious Michel, whose manipulative tendencies served only to exacerbate the trouble within the firm. Increasingly desperate, Michel took the unprecedented step of relinquishing operational control of Lazard to one of the few Great Men still around, Bruce Wasserstein, then fresh from selling his own M&A boutique, for $1.4 billion. Bruce’s take: more than $600 million. But it turned out Great Man Bruce had snookered Great Man Michel when the Frenchman was at his most vulnerable. The Last Tycoons is a tale of vaulting ambitions, whispered advice, worldly mistresses, fabulous art collections, and enormous wealth—a story of high drama in the world of high finance.

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Anchor

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0385521774

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9780385521772

Chretien de Troyes and the Dawn of Arthurian Romance

By: William Farina

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Chretien de Troyes and the Dawn of Arthurian Romance

By: William Farina

During the late 12th century, the Arthurian legends first took their form in the imagination of French-speaking romancers. Foremost among these poets was the great Chretien de Troyes, credited with incorporating into the Arthurian tradition the quest for the Holy Grail and the adulterous affair between Lancelot and Guinevere. This critical text explores the French roots of the legends and the source material of the individual characters, with special attention to the creative role played by de Troyes, whose contribution to the saga continues to shape and inform the modern imagination.

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McFarland

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0786457945

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9780786457946

Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800

By: Frederic William Bailey

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Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800

By: Frederic William Bailey

An extensive work, this is based on original records, mainly of the Congregational and Episcopal churches of the period 1651-1800. About 30,000 marriages are recorded, arranged by town and thereunder by church, and they give the full names of the brides and grooms, and the marriage dates. Each of the seven volumes is indexed.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806300078

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9780806300078

Crusade of Eagles

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

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Crusade of Eagles

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

The MacCallister siblings unite in a thundering frontier adventure from the greatest Western writer of the 21st century. They Fought for Fame and Fortune The MacCallister clan was raised on a harsh, unforgiving frontier, where courage and blood bonds mattered the most. While Falcon MacCallister followed his father’s mountain man legacy, his brother and sister made their fame and fortune on another kind of battleground. Now they’re planning a family reunion. Andrew and Rosanna MacCallister are headed to Colorado to visit their kin—until they step into the crosshairs of a murderer’s plan . . . Now They Will Fight for Their Lives . . . Luke Broskie didn’t know that the two actors from back East had a brother named Falcon. Or how fiercely that brother would fight for his kin after Broskie’s men kidnapped them for ransom. Soon Broskie must call in his own little army to crush his new worst enemy. But Falcon MacCallister is on a crusade—and his war won’t be over until the last six-shooter spits . . . Praise for the Eagles series “[A] rousing, two-fisted saga of the growing American frontier.”—Publishers Weekly “Solid, page-turning entertainment featuring a larger-than-life, old-fashioned hero in MacCallister.”—Booklist

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Pinnacle Books

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0786038381

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9780786038381

"January Thaw,"

By: William Roos

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"January Thaw,"

By: William Roos

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Dramatic Publishing

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1583421084

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9781583421086

Pioneering Progress

American Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy

By: William B. Bonvillian

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Pioneering Progress

American Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy

By: William B. Bonvillian

An expert exploration of the foundations of America’s science and technology policies, and the dynamics of its innovation system. Why study science and technology policy? What role does innovation play, and how do we foster it? Economics tells us technological innovation drives economic growth and societal well-being, but technology is always a double-edged sword—great technological advances offer both opportunities and threats. In Pioneering Progress, William Bonvillian explains the complex science and technology innovation system and discusses the challenges of emerging industrial policies. Drawing on in-depth case studies on critical areas such as energy, computing, advanced manufacturing, and health, with an emphasis on the needed public policy and the federal government R&D role in those systems, Bonvillian reviews the foundations of economic growth theory, innovation systems theory, and innovation organization theory. Bonvillian, a highly respected expert who has worked as a deputy assistant secretary of transportation in the federal government and a senior advisor in Congress, reviews a new theory of direct and indirect economic factors in the innovation system. He describes the innovation-based competitive and advanced manufacturing challenges now facing the US economy, reviews comparative efforts in other nations, studies the varied models for how federal science and technology mission agencies are organized, and explores the growth of public-private partnership and industrial policy models as a way for science mission agencies to pursue mission agendas. Pioneering Progress places particular emphasis on the organization and role of medical science and energy innovation agencies and how we can address the gaps in the health, energy, and advanced production innovation economic models.

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MIT Press

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0262380382

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9780262380386

Work and Academic Politics

A Journeyman's Story

By: William Form

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Work and Academic Politics

A Journeyman's Story

By: William Form

Over the course of a long and distinguished academic career William Form has gained renown as a major scholar in the areas of American labor politics, institutional analysis, and educational issues surrounding the experience of ethnicity and assimilation. Much of his scholarly work derived from his own experience as the son of Italian immigrants in the early twentieth century seeking integration into the mainstream of American society. As with other American ethnic groups the entrance into elementary, secondary and higher education involved sacrifice and gain. Moreover, the period of Form's academic career saw momentous changes in study of the social sciences. In Work and Academic Politics: A Journeyman's Story, Form reflects on his own experience to provide an exemplary intellectual autobiography against the background of modernity and change in America. Form likens his career to phases of the medieval guild system. His pre-apprenticeship began with his early ethnic experiences in Rochester, New York, where he grew up and in its school system which ignored ethnic backgrounds and turned second generation children into Americans who spoke only English. After his apprenticeship at a newly established graduate program at the University of Maryland, he wandered as a journeyman at Hood College, American University, Stevens College and Kent State, ultimately attaining master's status at three land-grant universities in the midwest. Over a span of 60 years, Form traces his changing research interests. His remembrances, shaped by the interaction of family, work place, and politics, offer fresh insights into the state of academia from the Depression to the present. In the pre-World War II years, departments which were linked to social work changed drastically in the post-war period, especially in research universities, to build a scientific discipline. The turmoil of the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement in the 1970s further changed the intellectual and political life of the discipline. In an eloquent manner, Form reiterates the transformations he has witnessed throughout his journey in society, the discipline, the university, and the American Sociological Association. The volume will be of particular interest to sociologists, social scientists, social historians, and specialists in ethnic studies.

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Routledge

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1351325582

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9781351325585

Integral Outsiders

The American Colony in Mexico City, 1876-1911

By: William Schell

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Integral Outsiders

The American Colony in Mexico City, 1876-1911

By: William Schell

Marriages between Americans and Mexican society women and membership in such organizations as Masonic brotherhoods brought the foreigners into the most important social circles.".

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310

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0842028382

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9780842028387

Visual Perception from a Computer Graphics Perspective

By: William Thompson,Roland Fleming,Sarah Creem-Regehr,Jeanine Kelly Stefanucci

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Visual Perception from a Computer Graphics Perspective

By: William Thompson,Roland Fleming,Sarah Creem-Regehr,Jeanine Kelly Stefanucci

This book provides an introduction to human visual perception suitable for readers studying or working in the fields of computer graphics and visualization, cognitive science, and visual neuroscience. It focuses on how computer graphics images are generated, rather than solely on the organization of the visual system itself; therefore, the text pro

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CRC Press

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1466502762

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9781466502765

Moonshine Massacre

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

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Moonshine Massacre

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

A half-breed and a white man. For years their legend has grown, but few know how far they will go for one another or the roots of their blood bond. Now, that bond will be put to the most deadly test yet. . . When Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves came to Kansas, they didn't know the Governor had just made the state liquor-free. But it doesn't take Matt long to find a place to drink and a family of enterprising moonshiners with one stunningly beautiful daughter. Trouble is, while Matt is falling hard, Sam is being recruited by a sheriff who happens to have a lovely daughter of his own. . . What happens when you mix 200-proof corn liquor with intoxicating women and two friends on opposite sides of the law? Big trouble. And more is coming: bearing down on the town of Cottonwood is a murderous bootlegger, hired gunmen and a gambler with a plan of his own. As a killing storm crashes over Cottonwood, the odds favor the man who is stone cold sober, good with a red hot gun--and backed by unbreakable bonds of blood. . .

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Pinnacle Books

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0786021241

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Assault on the Media

Assault on the Media

Wrong Window!

Wrong Window!

Splendor in the Grass

Splendor in the Grass

The Last Tycoons

The Last Tycoons

Chretien de Troyes and the Dawn of Arthurian Romance

Chretien de Troyes and the Dawn of Arthurian Romance

Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800

Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800

Crusade of Eagles

Crusade of Eagles

"January Thaw,"

"January Thaw,"

Pioneering Progress

Pioneering Progress

Work and Academic Politics

Work and Academic Politics

Integral Outsiders

Integral Outsiders

Visual Perception from a Computer Graphics Perspective

Visual Perception from a Computer Graphics Perspective

Moonshine Massacre

Moonshine Massacre

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