Richard Serrano: 7 books
by Richard Serrano
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book argues that the tension between Arabic poetry and the Qur’ān dating back to the seventh century, when the Qur’ān was first recited, is a primary generator of meaning in the Arabic Literary Tradition. Four case studies illustrate how this tension is a creative force. What, for example...
My Grandfather's Prison
A Story of Death and Deceit in 1940s Kansas City
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
James Patrick Lyons abandoned his family for a life on Kansas City’s skid row. A town drunk, he was arrested eighty times for public intoxication. On the night of his last arrest, he was taken to the city jail and held in solitary confinement. The next morning he was dead. Officials said it was...
Summoned at Midnight
A Story of Race and the Last Military Executions at Fort Leavenworth
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Uncovers the hidden world of the military legal system and the intimate history of racism that pervaded the armed forces long after integration.
Richard A. Serrano reveals how racial discrimination in the US military criminal justice system determined whose lives mattered and deserved a second...
Neither a Borrower
Forging Traditions in French, Chinese and Arabic Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"In his studies of borrowing from distant poetic traditions, Serrano aims to uncover the heterogenity of influences and intentions in the most canonical of texts: ""Mallarme"" (1842-98), ""Segalen"" (1878-1919), ""Wang Wei"" (701-61),...
Last of the Blue and Gray
Old Men, Stolen Glory, and the Mystery That Outlived the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Richard Serrano, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times, pens a story of two veterans. In the late 1950s, as America prepared for the Civil War centennial, two very old men lay dying. Albert Woolson, 109 years old, slipped in and out of a coma at a Duluth, Minnesota, hospital,...
American Endurance
Buffalo Bill, the Great Cowboy Race of 1893, and the Vanishing Wild West
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Richard A. Serrano's new book American Endurance: Buffalo Bill, the Great Cowboy Race of 1893, and the Vanishing Wild West is history, mystery, and Western all rolled into one. In June 1893, nine cowboys raced across a thousand miles of American prairie...
Systems of Life
Biopolitics, Economics, and Literature on the Cusp of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Offers a wide-ranging revaluation of the emergence of biopolitics in Europe from the mid-18th to the mid-19th century