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  • A Cultural History of Thomas Mann and the Hungarians

    by Lee Congdon ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book is a study in cultural collegiality and interchange. Over the course of a long life, Thomas Mann established working relationships with some of Hungary's cultural luminaries. On the six occasions that he visited Budapest to give public readings of his work, he met the novelists Dezső Kosztolányi and Sándor Márai. Because they wrote in Hungarian, those distinguished writers were not then ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Warrior-Writers of World War II

    by Lee Congdon ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    Warrior-Writers of World War II delivers a thorough study of Americans who saw combat in World War II, survived, and returned home to become famous writers. It considers the works of 16 important authors, among them J. D. Salinger, John Ciardi, and James Jones, exploring these men’s war experiences and their reflection in their writings. This includes what they learned about themselves and, even ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • George Kennan for Our Time

    by Lee Congdon ...
    Series series People for Our Time
    George Kennan for Our Time examines the work and thought of the most distinguished American diplomat of the twentieth century and extracts lessons for today. In his writings and lectures, Kennan outlined the proper conduct of foreign policy and issued warnings to an American society on the edge of the abyss.Lee Congdon identifies the principles Kennan applied to US relations with Russia and ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Legendary Sports Writers of the Golden Age

    Grantland Rice, Red Smith, Shirley Povich, and W. C. Heinz

    by Lee Congdon ...
    During the 1920s—the Golden Age of sports—sports writers gained their own recognition while covering such athletes as Babe Ruth, Bobby Jones, Jack Dempsey, and Red Grange. The top journalists of the era were the primary means by which fans learned about their favorite teams and athletes, and their popularity and importance in the sports world continued for decades.Legendary Sports Writers of the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Solzhenitsyn

    The Historical-Spiritual Destinies of Russia and the West

    by Lee Congdon ...
    Series series NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
    In this examination of Solzhenitsyn and his work, Lee Congdon explores the consequences of the atheistic socialism that drove the Russian revolutionary movement. Beginning with a description of the post-revolutionary Russia into which Solzhenitsyn was born, Congdon addresses the Bolshevik victory in the civil war, the origins of the concentration camp system, the Bolsheviks' war on Christianity ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933

    by Amos Elon ...
    Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award“Brilliant, far-reaching, passionate. . .sweeping and marvelously detailed. . .finely, intimately, movingly drawn. . . a book for the ages.”—The New York TimesIn this important work of historical restoration, respected journalist and historian Amos Elon shows how a persecuted clan of cattle dealers and wandering peddlers was transformed into... ... Read more

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  • Diplomacy

    by Henry Kissinger ...
    A brilliant, sweeping history of diplomacy that includes personal stories from the noted former Secretary of State, including his stunning reopening of relations with China.The seminal work on foreign policy and the art of diplomacy.Moving from a sweeping overview of history to blow-by-blow accounts of his negotiations with world leaders, Henry Kissinger describes how the art of diplomacy has ... Read more

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  • Nazi Germany and the Jews

    The Years of Perdecution, 1933–1939

    by Saul Friedländer ...
    A great historian crowns a lifetime of thought and research by answering a question that has haunted us for more than 50 years: How did one of the most industrially and culturally advanced nations in the world embark on and continue along the path leading to one of the most enormous criminal enterprises in history, the extermination of Europe's Jews?Giving considerable emphasis to a wealth of new ... Read more

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  • Orderly and Humane

    The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War

    by R. M. Douglas ...
    The award-winning history of 12 million German-speaking civilians in Europe who were driven from their homes after WWII: "a major achievement" ( New Republic).Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized the forced relocation of ethnic Germans from their homes across central and southern Europe to Germany. The numbers were almost unimaginable: between 12 and 14 million ... Read more

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  • Fin-De-Siecle Vienna

    Politics and Culture (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by Carl E. Schorske ...
    A Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born."Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an indicator of how the discipline ... Read more

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  • Culture in Nazi Germany

    by Michael H. Kater ...
    " A much-needed study of the aesthetics and cultural mores of the Third Reich . . . rich in detail and documentation." ( Kirkus Reviews)Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. In the years preceding WWII, a wide variety of artistic forms were used to instill a Nazi ideology in the German people and to manipulate the public perception of Hitler's enemies. During the war, the ... Read more

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  • My Battle Against Hitler

    Defiance in the Shadow of the Third Reich

    by Dietrich von Hildebrand, John Henry Crosby ...
    How does a person become Hitler’s number one enemy? Not through espionage or violence, it turns out, but by striking fearlessly at the intellectual and spiritual roots of National Socialism.Dietrich von Hildebrand was a German Catholic thinker and teacher who devoted the full force of his intellect to breaking the deadly spell of Nazism that ensnared so many of his beloved countrymen.His story ... Read more

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