Author: John E. Cooney
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This is the colorful and dramatic biography of two of America's most controversial entrepreneurs: Moses Louis Annenberg, 'the racing wire king, ' who built his fortune in racketeering, invested it in publishing, and lost much of it in the biggest tax evasion case in United States history; and his son, Walter, launcher of TV Guide and Seventeen magazines and former ambassador to Great Britain."--Jacket.
Author: Elaine Hadley
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780804724036
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This pathbreaking work analyzes melodrama as not merely a theatrical genre but as a behavioral paradigm of the nineteenth century, manifest in the theater, in literature, and in society. It shows how the melodramatic mode reaffirmed the familial, hierarchical, and public grounds for ethical behavior and identity that characterized models of social exchange and organization.
Author: Steven Justice
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1996-12
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0520206975
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This account of the "peasant revolt" of 1381 demonstrates that the rebellion was not an uncontrolled, inarticulate explosion of peasant resentment, but an informed and tactical claim to literacy and rule. It focuses on six brief texts by the rebels themselves.