Ivan R Dee imprint: 116 books

Cursed Days

Diary of a Revolution

by Ivan Bunin
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1998

The Nobel PrizeDwinning author's great anti-Bolshevik diary of the Russian Revolution, translated into English for the first time, with an Introduction and Notes by Thomas Gaiton Marullo. A harrowing description of the forerunners of the concentration camps and the Gulag. —Marc Raeff

Childhood

An English Translation

by Maksim Gorky
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010

Aleksey Peshkov overcame indigence, violence, and suicidal despair to become Maksim Gorky, one of the most widely read and influential writers of the twentieth century. Childhood, the first book in Gorky's acclaimed autobiographical trilogy, depictshis early years, when after his father's death he...

The Battle that Forged Modern Baseball

The Federal League Challenge and Its Legacy

by Daniel R. Levitt
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012

In late 1913 the newly formed Federal League declared itself a major league in competition with the established National and American Leagues. Backed by some of America’s wealthiest merchants and industrialists, the new organization posed a real challenge to baseball’s prevailing structure. For...

No Sense Of Decency

The Army-McCarthy Hearings: A Demagogue Falls and Television Takes Charge of American Politics

by Robert Shogan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009

"Have you no sense of decency, sir?" asked attorney Robert Welch in a climactic moment in the 1954 Senate hearings that pitted Joseph R. McCarthy against the United States Army, President Dwight Eisenhower, and the rest of the political establishment. What made the confrontation unprecedented...

One Hundred Percent American

The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s

by Thomas R. Pegram
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011

In the 1920s, a revived Ku Klux Klan burst into prominence as a self-styled defender of American values, a magnet for white Protestant community formation, and a would-be force in state and national politics. But the hooded bubble burst at mid-decade, and the social movement that had attracted several...

Chekhov

The Hidden Ground

by Philip Callow
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2001

The life of Russia's greatest dramatist and storyteller examined within the context of the evolution of his art. A fine biography...a very well-written, intelligent account of Chekhov's remarkable literary career and of his private actions. —Atlantic Monthly
by Sophocles
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2000

The tragedy of Oedipus, who unknowingly slays his father and marries his mother, is one of the mythical cornerstones of Western civilization. Nicholas Rudall's new translation remains true to Sophocles original text while fashioning a language of grace and power, with contemporary players and theatergoers in mind.

I'll Have What She's Having

Behind the Scenes of the Great Romantic Comedies

by Daniel M. Kimmel
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008

In considering the greatest of these films over time, Mr. Kimmel explains why When Harry Met Sally (1989) was called the greatest movie Woody Allen never made. Or how off-screen relationships helped My Man Godfrey (William Powell and Carole Lombard were divorced but remained friends) but interfered...

Never Despair

Sixty Years in the Service of the Jewish People and of Human Rights

by Gerhart Riegner
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2006

In August 1942 a thirty-year-old counsel in the Geneva office of the World Jewish Congress sent a cable to Rabbi Stephen Wise in New York with the following message: RECEIVED ALARMING REPORT THAT IN FUHRERS HEADQUARTERS PLAN DISCUSSED AND UNDER CONSIDERATION ALL JEWS IN COUNTRIES OCCUPIED OR CONTROLLED...

Not in My Neighborhood

How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City

by Antero Pietila
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010

Eugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal government's actions toward housing in the 20th century, dooming American cities to ghettoization. The Federal Housing Administration continued discriminatory housing policies even into the 1960s, long after civil...

About Grief

Insights, Setbacks, Grace Notes, Taboos

by Ron Marasco, Brian Shuff
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010

About Grief is a refreshingly down-to-earth book about an issue that blindsides many people. Written in a warm and conversational way that is, at times, deeply moving, at times, surprisingly amusing, and always practical, it covers a wide range of issues facing people in grief. Originally developed...

To Sleep with the Angels

The Story of a Fire

by John Kuenster, David Cowan
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1996

The story of one of the deadliest fires in American history that took the lives of ninety-two children and three nuns at a Catholic elementary school in Chicago. An absorbing account...a tale of terror. —New York Times Book Review
by Gene Smiley
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2002

The worldwide Great Depression of the 1930s was the most traumatic event of the twentieth century. It ushered in substantial expansions in the role of governments around the world, focused attention on social insurance, and for a time bolstered socialist economic ideas as a form of cure. Skepticism...

Cotton and Race in the Making of America

The Human Costs of Economic Power

by Gene Dattel
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009

Since the earliest days of colonial America, the relationship between cotton and the African-American experience has been central to the history of the republic. America's most serious social tragedy, slavery and its legacy, spread only where cotton could be grown. Both before and after the Civil...
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