An American Place

Author : Jean Stein
Publisher : Random House
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781473522350

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West of Eden by Jean Stein Pdf

West of Eden is the definitive story of Hollywood, told, in their own words, by the people on the inside: Lauren Bacall, Arthur Miller, Dennis Hopper, Frank Gehry, Ring Lardner, Joan Didion, Stephen Sondheim – all interviewed by Jean Stein, who grew up in the Forties in a fairytale mansion in the Hollywood Hills. The book takes us from the discovery of oil in the Twenties with the story of the tycoon Edward Doheny (There Will Be Blood) and traces the growth of corruption through the syndicates, the mob, and the movie studios – from the beginnings of the film industry to the end, with News Corp. and Rupert Murdoch (who bought the Stein mansion in 1985). West of Eden is about money, power, fame and terrible secrets: the doomed Hollywood of the late Fifties, early Sixties – ‘the rotten heart of paradise’. Like her last book, the best-selling Edie, this is an oral history told through brilliantly edited interviews. As this is Hollywood, it’s a book full of sex, drugs and celebrity glamour; but because it’s built from the firsthand accounts of people who were actually there, many of them writers, actors and artists, it’s also strangely claustrophobic, seductive, and completely compelling.

Author : Larry Forgione
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Cookery, American
ISBN : 0688087167

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An American Place by Larry Forgione Pdf

Forgione, whose culinary vision resulted in the rebirth of farmers' markets across the country and the new availability of such quality ingredients as "free-range chicken", has finally produced his master cookbook. These 200 mouth-watering recipes reclaim the honest, soul-satisfying flavors of classic American cooking, often with a distinctive twist. Three 8-page color inserts. Color glossary.

Author : John Agnew,Jonathan M. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134900572

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American Space/American Place by John Agnew,Jonathan M. Smith Pdf

American Space/American Place offers geographical perspectives on the condition of the United States at the outset of the twenty-first century. It compares the American ideal of liberty, equality, individual opportunity and social improvement with the contemporary condition of the regions, states and localities--the ideal American space with its reality as a place. It uses the public standard provided by the official ideology of the United States to see how well things are really going. Agnew and Smith consider the contrast between ideal and reality at local, state and national levels in education, health, and welfare, in community, race, gender, and calss relations, in economic and industrial development, and in the use and exploitation of America's landscape. American Space/American Place provides a series of compelling insights into the current condition of American Society, its natural environment and its place within the world.

Author : Michael McCafferty
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252055980

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Native American Place Names of Indiana by Michael McCafferty Pdf

A linguistic history of Native American place-names in Indiana In tracing the roots of Indiana place names, Michael McCafferty focuses on those created and used by local Native Americans. Drawing from exciting new sources that include three Illinois dictionaries from the eighteenth century, the author documents the language used to describe landmarks essential to fur traders in Les Pays d’en Haut and settlers of the Old Northwest territory. Impeccably researched, this study details who created each name, as well as when, where, how and why they were used. The result is a detailed linguistic history of lakes, streams, cities, counties, and other Indiana names. Each entry includes native language forms, translations, and pronunciation guides, offering fresh historical insight into the state of Indiana.

Author : Abraham Resnick
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469758053

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In Search of American Place-Name Origins by Abraham Resnick Pdf

A compilation of fascinating and interest-arousing United States place-name origins and their meanings. The thoroughly researched content includes such naming factors and sources as 1) names of historical events and person note 2) geographic features as determiners 3) Native Americans (Indians) 4) foreign language derivations 5) commemorative and commendatory 6) national and ethnographic 7) literary influences 8) unknown beginnings 9) possessive and personal 10) religious, mythical and classical 11) manufactured and contrived 12) humorous and odd.

Author : Gregg Hertzlieb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0252034562

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The Calumet Region by Gregg Hertzlieb Pdf

Cialdella found himself drawn to the Calumet Region of his youth for a photographic exploration that has lasted more than twenty years, and that has resulted in hundreds of rich and complex works.

Author : Andrea Gray Stillman
Publisher : Pacific Editions Publishing Company
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Photography
ISBN : UOM:39015008048160

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Ansel Adams by Andrea Gray Stillman Pdf

Author : Benjamin Heber Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Mexican-American Border Region
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131734506

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Bordertown by Benjamin Heber Johnson Pdf

An evocative portrayal of a remote place that offers a whole new way of looking at the U.S.-Mexico border Mexico and America have met for eight generations on their shared border. In this compelling book, photographer Jeffrey Gusky and historian Benjamin Johnson capture this encounter through their mesmerizing portrayal of Roma, Texas. European culture left its mark here, but it was brought by mixed-race, Spanish-speaking pioneers who practiced Muslim irrigation techniques and believed that they were descended from Jews. Triumphant American armies made this region part of the United States, but the descendants of those they conquered have fought in every American conflict from the Civil War to Iraq. Racial strife divided this land, but slaves gained freedom by fleeing south to Mexico and Hispanics reacquired wealth and power by buying out Anglos. Although today the area is one of the poorest in the United States, the fortune that founded Citibank was made here and the town has inspired such authors as John Steinbeck and Larry McMurtry. In a time when the border is a source of controversy and division, Johnson's unexpected stories and Gusky's haunting photographs demonstrate how deeply the story of the border is also the story of America itself.

Author : Paul Freedman,Joyce E. Chaplin,Ken Albala
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780520277458

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Food in Time and Place by Paul Freedman,Joyce E. Chaplin,Ken Albala Pdf

Food and cuisine are important subjects for historians across many areas of study. Food, after all, is one of the most basic human needs and a foundational part of social and cultural histories. Such topics as famines, food supply, nutrition, and public health are addressed by historians specializing in every era and every nation. Food in Time and Place delivers an unprecedented review of the state of historical research on food, endorsed by the American Historical Association, providing readers with a geographically, chronologically, and topically broad understanding of food culturesÑfrom ancient Mediterranean and medieval societies to France and its domination of haute cuisine. Teachers, students, and scholars in food history will appreciate coverage of different thematic concerns, such as transfers of crops, conquest, colonization, immigration, and modern forms of globalization.

Author : Rachael Z. DeLue
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226281230

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Arthur Dove by Rachael Z. DeLue Pdf

Arthur Dove, often credited as America’s first abstract painter, created dynamic and evocative images inspired by his surroundings, from the farmland of upstate New York to the North Shore of Long Island. But his interests were not limited to nature. Challenging earlier accounts that view him as simply a landscape painter, Arthur Dove: Always Connect reveals for the first time the artist’s intense engagement with language, the nature of social interaction, and scientific and technological advances. Rachael Z. DeLue rejects the traditional assumption that Dove can only be understood in terms of his nature paintings and association with photographer and gallerist Alfred Stieglitz and his circle. Instead, she uncovers deep and complex connections between Dove’s work and his world, including avant-garde literature, popular music, meteorology, mathematics, aviation, and World War II. Arthur Dove also offers the first sustained account of Dove’s Dadaesque multimedia projects and the first explorations of his animal imagery and the role of humor in his art. Beautifully illustrated with works from all periods of Dove’s career, this book presents a new vision of one of America’s most innovative and captivating artists—and reimagines how the story of modern art in the United States might be told.

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Magdalena Dabrowski
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588394330

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Stieglitz and His Artists by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Magdalena Dabrowski Pdf

A master photographer, Alfred Stieglitz was also a visionary promoter and avid collector of modern American and European art from the first half of the 20th century. This book is the first fully-illustrated catalogue of works in the unparalleled 'Alfred Stieglitz Collection', which was given to the Metropolitan Museum after Stieglitz's death.

Author : Wesley Morgan
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812985221

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The Hardest Place by Wesley Morgan Pdf

COLBY AWARD WINNER • “One of the most important books to come out of the Afghanistan war.”—Foreign Policy “A saga of courage and futility, of valor and error and heartbreak.”—Rick Atkinson, author of the Liberation Trilogy and The British Are Coming Of the many battlefields on which U.S. troops and intelligence operatives fought in Afghanistan, one remote corner of the country stands as a microcosm of the American campaign: the Pech and its tributary valleys in Kunar and Nuristan. The area’s rugged, steep terrain and thick forests made it a natural hiding spot for local insurgents and international terrorists alike, and it came to represent both the valor and futility of America’s two-decade-long Afghan war. Drawing on reporting trips, hundreds of interviews, and documentary research, Wesley Morgan reveals the history of the war in this iconic region, captures the culture and reality of the conflict through both American and Afghan eyes, and reports on the snowballing missteps—some kept secret from even the troops fighting there—that doomed the American mission. The Hardest Place is the story of one of the twenty-first century’s most unforgiving battlefields and a portrait of the American military that fought there.

Author : Frank K. Gallant
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-27
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780486310817

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A Place Called Peculiar by Frank K. Gallant Pdf

From Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, to Intercourse, Pennsylvania, and Bug Tussle, Alabama, this pop-culture history offers a well-written and highly entertaining survey of America's most unusual place-names and their often-humorous origins.

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Random House
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409017400

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The Quiet American by Graham Greene Pdf

'The novel that I love the most is The Quiet American' Ian McEwan, Sunday Times bestselling author of Lessons Into the intrigue and violence of 1950s Saigon comes CIA agent Alden Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As Pyle's naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as Fowler intervenes he wonders why: for the greater good, or something altogether more complicated? WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZADIE SMITH **One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**

Author : Dorothy Norman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Photographers
ISBN : 0893814253

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Alfred Stieglitz by Dorothy Norman Pdf

Stieglitz was one of the most important cultural forces in twentieth century America. For almost sixty years he dedicated his life to freedom of inquiry and integrity of artistic expression. Among his many accomplishments was his successful battle to gain recognition of fine photography as a major art form. Through his own photographs, he demonstrated the revelatory power of the medium.