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  • An Empire of Print

    The New York Publishing Trade in the Early American Republic

    Series series Penn State Series in the History of the Book
    Home to the so-called big five publishers as well as hundreds of smaller presses, renowned literary agents, a vigorous arts scene, and an uncountable number of aspiring and established writers alike, New York City is widely perceived as the publishing capital of the United States and the world. This book traces the origins and early evolution of the city’s rise to literary preeminence.Through five ... Read more

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  • Challenging Images of Women in the Media

    Reinventing Women's Lives

    Challenging Images of Women and the Media: Reinventing Women’s Lives, edited by Theresa Carilli and Jane Campbell, collects fifteen articles addressing the status of women through an examination of depictions of women in the media. This in-depth study shows how mixed messages from the media muddle attempts at breaking the “glass screen,” causing women to constantly question their role in global ... Read more

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    The Nymphs (Unabridged)

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    Dive into a world of captivating beauty and unsettling mystery with Ivan Turgenev's "The Nymphs." This lyrical novella, narrated by a captivating voice, transports you to the heart of a lush forest, where a young man becomes entranced by a group of enchanting yet elusive maidens. As he pursues them deeper into the woods, the line between reality and fantasy blurs. Are these ethereal beings mere ... Read more

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    The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution

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  • A Writer's Life

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    The inner workings of a writer’s life, the interplay between experience and writing, are brilliantly recounted by a master of the art. Gay Talese now focuses on his own life—the zeal for the truth, the narrative edge, the sometimes startling precision, that won accolades for his journalism and best-sellerdom and acclaim for his revelatory books about The New York Times (The Kingdom and the Power), ... Read more

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  • The Hybrid Media System

    Politics and Power

    Series series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
    The diffusion and rapid evolution of new communication technologies has reshaped media and politics. But who are the new power players? Written by a leading scholar in the field, The Hybrid Media System is a sweeping and compelling new theory of how political communication now works. Politics is increasingly defined by organizations, groups, and individuals who are best able to blend older and ... Read more

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  • The Whiskey Rebellion

    George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Fro

    A gripping and sensational tale of violence, alcohol, and taxes, The Whiskey Rebellion uncovers the radical eighteenth-century people’s movement, long ignored by historians, that contributed decisively to the establishment of federal authority.In 1791, on the frontier of western Pennsylvania, local gangs of insurgents with blackened faces began to attack federal officials, beating and torturing ... Read more

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  • Fatal Sunday

    George Washington, the Monmouth Campaign, and the Politics of Battle

    Series series Campaigns and Commanders Series
    Historians have long considered the Battle of Monmouth one of the most complicated engagements of the American Revolution. Fought on Sunday, June 28, 1778, Monmouth was critical to the success of the Revolution. It also marked a decisive turning point in the military career of George Washington. Without the victory at Monmouth Courthouse, Washington's critics might well have marshaled the ... Read more

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  • The Bowery

    The Strange History of New York's Oldest Street

    From peglegged Peter Stuyvesant to CBGB’s, the story of the Bowery reflects the history of the city that grew up around it.It was the street your mother warned you about—even if you lived in San Francisco. Long associated with skid row, saloons, freak shows, violence, and vice, the Bowery often showed the worst New York City had to offer. Yet there were times when it showed its best as well.The ... Read more

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  • CinemaScope Four: M-G-M MOVIES Light Up the Screen

    M-G-M (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) was generally regarded as Hollywood's number one movie studio. Easily the world's largest and most glamorous, the studio, under the leadership of Louis B. Mayer, often boasted that it had "more stars than there are in heaven" under contract. This was true. By the mid-1950s, however, the movie industry found itself under serious threat from television. Hollywood's answer ... Read more

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  • No Turning Point

    The Saratoga Campaign in Perspective

    Series series Campaigns and Commanders Series
    The Battle of Saratoga in 1777 ended with British general John Burgoyne’s troops surrendering to the American rebel army commanded by General Horatio Gates. Historians have long seen Burgoyne’s defeat as a turning point in the American Revolution because it convinced France to join the war on the side of the colonies, thus ensuring American victory. But that traditional view of Saratoga overlooks ... Read more

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  • The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn

    "The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn" by Henry Phelps Johnston provides a detailed account of the pivotal military engagements that took place during the American Revolutionary War. Johnston meticulously examines the strategies employed by both the British and American forces, highlighting the significance of the New York and Brooklyn campaigns. Through extensive research and ... Read more

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