Cooper Square Press: 92 books
The Boys from Syracuse
The Shuberts' Theatrical Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2000
From 1905 to the crash of 1929, Sam Shubert (1874-1905) and his brothers Lee (1874-1953) and J. J. (1878-1963), despite poor beginnings and near-illiteracy, created a theater monopoly unrivaled in history. Their ruthless business tactics and showmanship made 42nd Street the heart of American popular...
Swing Under the Nazis
Jazz as a Metaphor for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2000
For a brief time in a Europe threatened and then occupied by Nazi Germany, jazz was heard as ubiquitously as rock ' n' roll is today. In a personal search for the story of that time, Mike Zwerin spent two years traveling across Europe talking with individuals who performed and enjoyed jazz in Hitler's...
Desperados
The Roots of Country Rock
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2001
The first full history to describe the development of country rock.
The Hitler Youth
Origins and Development 1922-1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2000
H. W. Koch, himself a former Hitler Youth brings a unique sensitivity and perspective to the history of one of the most fascinating vehicles for Nazi thought and propaganda. He traces the Hitler Youth movement from its antecedents in nineteenth-century German romanticism and pre-1914 youth culture,...
Once Upon a Time in New York
Jimmy Walker, Franklin Roosevelt,and the Last Great Battle of the Jazz Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2003
A flavorful account of New York City politics during the 1920s Jazz Age centering on the intersecting careers of the city's popular "Night Mayor," Jimmy Walker, and the state's patrician governor, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Mitgang's extensive use of newspaper quotes and legal transcripts helps paint...
D.H. Lawrence
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2002
Jeffrey Meyers, the author of highly acclaimed biographies of Hemingway and George Orwell, offers this masterly work on British novelist D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930). Meyers' fresh insights into Lawrence's life illuminate Lawrence's working-class childhood, his tempestuous marriage, and his death in...
by Betram D. Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2000
Known for his grand public murals, Diego Rivera (1886-1957) is one of Mexico's most revered artists. His paintings are marked by a unique fusion of European sophistication, revolutionary political turmoil, and the heritage and personality of his native country.
Based on extensive interviews...
by Henry Scott Stokes
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2000
Novelist, playwright, film actor, martial artist, and political commentator, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) was arguably the most famous person in Japan at the time of his death. Henry Scott Stokes, one of Mishima's closest friends, was the only non-Japanese allowed to attend the trial of the men involved...
The Bitter End
Hanging Out at America's Nightclub
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2002
The tale of the famous Greenwich Village coffeehouse turned nightclub, The Bitter End is also the story of the club's manager and owner, Paul Colby. From the early 60s to the 90s, the Bitter End hosted a wide range of influential music and comedy acts that reflected the changing creative atmosphere...
Playwrights on Playwriting
From Ibsen to Ionesco
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2001
For anyone interested in drama, Playwrights on Playwriting: From Ibsen to Ionesco offers revealing and astute insights on modern theater and the creation of plays. The book gathers the opinions and theories of the greatest names in the past 200 years of drama, among them Anton Chekhov, George Bernard...
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 1999
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) is best known as the author of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Treasure Island, and Kidnapped, but his essays comprise an oft-overlooked trove of gems, intriguing in their content and generous in their scope. This collection of nearly three dozen of...
by Paul Oppenheimer
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2002
The most popular painter of his day, yet an artist whose reputation has fluctuated among art scholars and critics of the succeeding centuries, Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) is chiefly remembered today for his large canvases of sensual gardens, religious scenes, and voluptuous "Rubenesque" women. In...
Lennon in America
1971-1980, Based in Part on the Lost Lennon Diaries
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2001
John Lennon was a legend in his own time. Deprived of life at a young age, Lennon has become a symbol of the '60s and '70s peace movement. But what do we really know about him as a person?
Katherine Mansfield
A Darker View
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2002
The works of Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), one of England's most gifted short story writers, have influenced over eight decades of writers. A friend to Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and Bertrand Russell, Mansfield left a literary legacy collected in The Garden Party, In a German Pension, and...