Ivan R Dee imprint: 116 books
Cursed Days
Diary of a Revolution
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...