Wald: 104 books
Alan M. Wald's American Literary Left Trilogy, Omnibus E-Book
Includes American Night, Trinity of Passion, and Exiles from a Future Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Offered here for the first time as an Omnibus E-Book, this collection brings together Alan M. Wald's ground-breaking trilogy.
American Night, the final volume of this unprecedented trilogy, brings Alan Wald's multigenerational history of Communist writers to a poignant climax. Using new research...
American Night
The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
American Night, the final volume of an unprecedented trilogy, brings Alan Wald's multigenerational history of Communist writers to a poignant climax. Using new research to explore the intimate lives of novelists, poets, and critics during the Cold War, Wald reveals a radical community longing for...
by Elijah Wald
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Praised as "suave, soulful, ebullient" (Tom Waits) and "a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer, and a committed contrarian" (New York Times Book Review), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular music critics of his generation. In The Blues, Wald surveys a genre at the heart...
Talking 'Bout Your Mama
The Dozens, Snaps, and the Deep Roots of Rap
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
From Two Live Crew's controversial comedy to Ice Cube's gangsta styling and the battle rhymes of a streetcorner cypher, rap has always drawn on deep traditions of African American poetic word-play, In Talking 'Bout Your Mama, author Elijah Wald explores one of the most potent sources of rap: the viciously...
Trinity of Passion
The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The second of three volumes by Alan Wald that track the political and personal lives of several generations of U.S. left-wing writers, Trinity of Passion carries forward the chronicle launched in Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left. In this volume Wald...
Exiles from a Future Time
The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
With this book, Alan Wald launches a bold and passionate account of the U.S. Literary Left from the 1920s through the 1960s. Exiles from a Future Time, the first volume of a trilogy, focuses on the forging of a Communist-led literary tradition in the 1930s. Exploring writers' intimate lives and heartfelt...
Crossing the Line
Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2000
As W. E. B. DuBois famously prophesied in The Souls of Black Folk, the fiction of the color line has been of urgent concern in defining a certain twentieth-century U.S. racial “order.” Yet the very arbitrariness of this line also gives rise to opportunities for racial “passing,” a practice...
How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll
An Alternative History of American Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
"There are no definitive histories," writes Elijah Wald, in this provocative reassessment of American popular music, "because the past keeps looking different as the present changes." Earlier musical styles sound different to us today because we hear them through the musical filter...
Contagious
Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2008
How should we understand the fear and fascination elicited by the accounts of communicable disease outbreaks that proliferated, following the emergence of HIV, in scientific publications and the mainstream media? The repetition of particular characters, images, and story lines—of Patients Zero and...
by Noreen Wald
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
“Sparkles like the South Florida sunshine...Kate Kennedy is a warm and funny heroine.” – Nancy Martin, Author of the Blackbird Sisters Mysteries
“Miss Marple with a modern twist...[Wald] is a very funny lady!” – Donna Andrews, Author of the Meg Langslow Mysteries
“A stylish...
by Noreen Wald
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
“Sparkles like the South Florida sunshine...Kate Kennedy is a warm and funny heroine.” – Nancy Martin, Author of the Blackbird Sisters Mysteries
“Miss Marple with a modern twist...[Wald] is a very funny lady!” – Donna Andrews, Author of the Meg Langslow Mysteries
“A stylish...
by Noreen Wald
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
“Sparkles like the South Florida sunshine...Kate Kennedy is a warm and funny heroine.” – Nancy Martin, Author of the Blackbird Sisters Mysteries
“Miss Marple with a modern twist...[Wald] is a very funny lady!” – Donna Andrews, Author of the Meg Langslow Mysteries
“A stylish...
by Noreen Wald
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
“Sparkles like the South Florida sunshine...Kate Kennedy is a warm and funny heroine.” – Nancy Martin, Author of the Blackbird Sisters Mysteries
“Miss Marple with a modern twist...[Wald] is a very funny lady!” – Donna Andrews, Author of the Meg Langslow Mysteries
“A stylish...
A Guide to International Church Ministry
Pastoring A Parade
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
A Guide to International Church Ministry: Pastoring a Parade explores the unique dynamics of international churches. In a diverse congregation with many nationalities, denominational perspectives, and continual turnover, pastors and leaders face distinct challenges. Drawing on the experience of 24...