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Current Biography Yearbook
The aim of Current Biography Yearbook is to provide reference librarians, students, and researchers with objective, accurate, and well-documented biographical articles about living leaders in all fields of human accomplishment. Whenever feasible, obituary notices appear for persons whose biographies have been published in Current Biography. - Publisher.
Policing Literary Theory
The present age of omnipresent terrorism is also an era of ever-expanding policing. What is the meaning — and the consequences — of this situation for literature and literary criticism? Policing Literary Theory attempts to answer these questions presenting intriguing and critical analyses of the interplays between police/policing and literature/literary criticism in a variety of linguistic milieus and literary traditions: American, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and others. The volume explores the mechanisms of formulation of knowledge about literature, theory, or culture in general in the post-Foucauldian surveillance society. Topics include North Korean dictatorship, spy narratives, censorship in literature and scholarship, Russian and Soviet authoritarianism, Eastern European cultures during communism, and Kafka’s work. Contributors: Vladimir Biti, Reingard Nethersole, Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu, Sowon Park, Marko Juvan, Kyohei Norimatsu, Péter Hajdu, Norio Sakanaka, John Zilcosky, Yvonne Howell, and Takayuki Yokota-Murakami.
Robert Kennedy
For most of his life, Robert Kennedy stood in the shadow cast by his older brother, John; only after President Kennedy's assassination did the public gain a complete sense of Robert ("Bobby," we called him) as a committed advocate for social justice and a savvy politician in his own right. In this comprehensive biography, James W. Hilty offers a detailed and nuanced account of how Robert was transformed from a seemingly unpromising youngster, unlikely to match the accomplishments of his older brother, to the forceful man who ran "the family business," orchestrating the Kennedy quest for political power. The centerpiece of the book is the remarkable political partnership that formed between R...
1939, the Year in Movies
The scene: the year 1939 in America. FDR and his New Deal had gotten us past the worst of the Depression, the New York World's Fair opened, World War II was still European. The Wizard of Oz, Stagecoach, Gone with the Wind, Wuthering Heights, Beau Geste, Drums Along the Mohawk, Ninotchka, Gunga Din, Of Mice and Men, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Jimmy Stewart was in five in 1939, as was Henry Fonda): The movies of 1939 reflected the mood of the nation. People followed the Yellow Brick Road, Garbo laughed, and Gable shocked sensibilities by uttering the word damn! It was a year of big stars and bigger studios. The five majors--Warner Bros., Paramount, 20th Century-Fox, MGM and RKO--not only made and distributed films, but ran their own theater chains as well (nearly 2800 nationwide). With numerous lesser companies as well, the late thirties was the most prolific time for moviemaking in history. This heavily illustrated work examines over 125 of the famous and the obscure films of 1939 (Ronald Reagan also made at least five of them), including series. Cast and credits are given, as well as lengthy synopses in many cases. An extensive index concludes the book.
