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  • Barney

    Grove Press and Barney Rosset, America's Maverick Publisher and His Battle against Censorship

    by Michael Rosenthal ...
    An impetuous outsider who delighted in confronting American hypocrisy and prudery, Barney Rosset liberated American culture from the constraints of Puritanism. As the head of Grove Press, he single-handedly broke down the laws against obscenity, changing forever the nature of writing and publishing in this country. He brought to the reading public the European avant-garde, among them Samuel ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Scraps, Orts, and Fragments

    Pieces of a Life

    by Michael Rosenthal ...
    Scraps, Orts, and Fragments: Pieces of a Life is a collection of essays, written in fits over several years, comprising what the title suggests: snapshots of a life without any attempt to fashion them into a coherent narrative. Michael Rosenthal explores subjects as diverse as his teen-age fascination with Hubert's Flea Circus on New York's 42nd Street; life with his stoic father; sex in the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Virginia Woolf

    by Michael Rosenthal ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1979, Virginia Woolf is an original critical study of where the author considers Virginia Woolf’s non-fiction as well as fiction, exploring the different ways Woolf sought to embody her artistic vision throughout her remarkable literary career. The book establishes both the intellectual and social setting of the Bloomsbury world in which she lived and includes detailed ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Nicholas Miraculous

    The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler

    by Michael Rosenthal ...
    To those who loved him, like Teddy Roosevelt, he was "Nicholas Miraculous," the fabled educator who had a hand in everything; to those who did not, like Upton Sinclair, he was "the intellectual leader of the American plutocracy," a champion of "false and cruel ideals." Ezra Pound branded him "one of the more loathsome figures" of the age. Whether celebrated or despised, Nicholas Murray Butler ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

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  • Bearing Witness

    How Writers Brought the Brutality of World War II to Light

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    It has been said that during times of war, the Muses fall silent. However, anyone who has read the major figures of mid-twentieth-century literature—Samuel Beckett, Richard Hillary, Norman Mailer, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others—can attest that it was through writing that people first tried to communicate and process the horrors that they saw during one of the darkest times in human ... Read more

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  • Lincoln and the Irish

    The Untold Story of How the Irish Helped Abraham Lincoln Save the Union

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    An unprecedented narrative of the relationship that swung the Civil War.When Pickett charged at Gettysburg, it was the all-Irish Pennsylvania 69th who held fast while the surrounding regiments broke and ran. And it was Abraham Lincoln who, a year earlier at Malvern Hill, picked up a corner of one of the Irish colors, kissed it, and said, “God bless the Irish flag.”Lincoln and the Irish untangles ... Read more

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  • The Taking of Getty Oil

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    Two Marriages That Changed History

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  • Inside the Criminal Mind (Newly Revised Edition)

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    **A brilliant, no-nonsense profile of the criminal mind, newly updated in 2022 to include the latest research, effective methods for dealing with hardened criminals, and an urgent call to rethink criminal justice from expert witness Stanton E. Samenow, Ph.D.“Utterly compelling reading, full of raw insight into the dark mind of the criminal.”—John Douglas, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller ... Read more

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  • The Hustons

    The Life and Times of a Hollywood Dynasty

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    In this candid biography Lawrence Grobel chronicles the remarkable story of the Huston family, which boasts three Oscar winners, from Walter to John to Anjelica, with particular attention to the rich career and tumultuous personal life of director/actor John Huston (1906-1987). This updated edition covers Anjelica's stormy relationship with Jack Nicholson, her liberating marriage to artist Robert ... Read more

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    The Secret Lives of the Women Behind the Kremlin Walls—From Lenin to Gorbachev

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