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Author: David Rock
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: transitions, postwar, war, america, latin
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 1994-04-01
ISBN-10: 0520084179
ISBN-13: 9780520084179
Latin America in the 1940s addresses the significant impact that World War II and the onset of the Cold War had on the political development of Latin America. During the middle of this crucial decade many Latin American countries turned from authoritarian regimes toward democracy and the rapid growth of labor unions. By the end of the decade, however, the fledgling democracies had collapsed, the unions were in shambles, and authoritarianism asserted itself once more. This collection of essays by an international group of historians, political scientists, economists, and sociologists confronts
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Author: Lawrence Lee
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: biography, saroyan
Number of Pages: 358
Published: 1998-04-23
ISBN-10: 0520213998
ISBN-13: 9780520213999
Along with Ernest Hemingway, William Saroyan, winner of a Pulitzer Prize in drama for The Time of Your Life and an Academy Award for the screenplay of The Human Comedy, was the most well-known American writer of the 1930s and 1940s. Lawrence Lee and Barry Gifford heard Saroyan's story first-hand from Carol Matthau, the wife he rejected; the son and daughter he alternately smothered and pushed away; and colleagues like Artie Shaw, Celeste Holm, and Lillian Gish. Their revelations bring new depth to Saroyan's riveting story. Along with Ernest Hemingway, William Saroyan, winner of a Pulitzer Priz
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Author: Janet R. Daly Bednarek
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: sergeants, air, force, master, chief, experience, conversation, enlisted
Number of Pages: 187
Published: 1995-12
ISBN-10: 0788128248
ISBN-13: 9780788128240
Offers a vivid, candid, & highly personal account of military life by four of the first five Chief Master Sergeants of the Air Force -- Paul W. Airey, Donald L. Harlow, Thomas N. Barnes, & Robert D. Gaylor. Their recollections, captured in a 1987 interview, cover a period of over thirty years -- from the early 1940s to the late 1970s, & illuminate much of the history & heritage surrounding the ranks from the perspective of the highest position available to an enlisted member of the Air Force. Photos.
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Author: Lisa Germany
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: harris, hamilton, harwell
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2000
ISBN-10: 0520226194
ISBN-13: 9780520226197
00 Lisa Germany's biography of Harwell Hamilton Harris (1903-1990) details the work of an architect who successfully merged the ideals of modern and California regionalist architecture. Harris was a sculptor who changed careers when he saw Wright's Hollyhock House and realized that an architect could make sculpture on a monumental scale that both functioned as a home and moved in and out of nature. Germany traces the development of Harris's life and career, assessing his place in American modernism, in the development of regionalist architecture, and in the interpretation of a modern Californi
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Author: Henry Grady Weaver
Publisher: Foundation for Economic Education
Keywords: progress, human, mainspring
Number of Pages: 270
Published: 1999-06-01
ISBN-10: 0910614024
ISBN-13: 9780910614023
Weaver’s book offers human liberty as the “mainspring of human progress.” The book begins with a series of puzzles about why we are so much better off than our ancestors and then explores why systems lacking liberty haven’t worked. The bulk of the book is an historical look at how the “revolutionary” idea of liberty struggled to dominate and eventually did. Weaver finishes with a discussion of the “fruits of freedom” as seen from the late 1940s.
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Author: Tyrone Power
Publisher: Applewood Books
Keywords: america, impressions
Number of Pages: 422
Published: 1970-01-01
ISBN-10: 1429001771
ISBN-13: 9781429001779
Published in 1836, Power, a famous Irish stage actor and theatrical manager and great-grandfather of the 1930s and 1940s Hollywood film star Tyrone Power, offers his perspectives on America, based on extensive theatrical tours taken during the years of 1833, 1834, and 1835 through New England, the Mid-Atlantic, and the South. Especially rich are his descriptions of the theater audiences for whom he performed, describing the differences among the audiences of such cities as New York, Albany, Boston, Pittsburg, and New Orleans. Through these descriptions we can get a feeling for the customs and
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