Mcfarland: 2486 books
Lugosi: His Life in Films, on Stage, and in the Hearts of Horror Lovers
His Life in Films, on Stage, and in the Hearts of Horror Lovers
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2006
He was born Bela Ferenc Dezso Blasko on October 20, 1882, in Hungary. He joined Budapest's National Theater in 1913 and later appeared in several Hungarian films under the pseudonym Arisztid Olt. After World War I, he helped the Communist regime nationalize Hungary's film industry, but barely escaped...
Three Bad Men
John Ford, John Wayne, Ward Bond
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
These were unique, complex, personal and professional relationships between master director John Ford and his two favorite actors, John Wayne and Ward Bond. The book provides a biography of each and a detailed exploration of Ford's work as it was intertwined with the lives and work of both Wayne and...
by Sean Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2006
Archie Bunker, George Jefferson, Maude--the television sitcom world of the 1970s was peopled by the creations of Norman Lear. Beginning in 1971 with the premier of All in the Family, Lear's work gave sitcoms a new face and a new style. No longer were families perfect and lives in order. Mostly blue-collar...
by Gail McFarland
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2011
What is life without passion? That's a question one woman never planned to have to answer. She's a lady lawyer with a passion for those things that keep us all on the straight and narrow. She worked her way through law school and pushed hard to pass the bar, but its a chance meeting with a stunning...
Fugitive Slaves and the Unfinished American Revolution
Eight Cases, 1848-1856
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
This book posits that the American Revolution--waged to form a "more perfect union"--still raged long after the guns went silent. Eight major fugitive slave stories of the antebellum era are described and interpreted to demonstrate how fugitive slaves and their abolitionist allies embraced Patrick...
The Wolves of World War II: An East Prussian Soldier's Memoir of Combat and Captivity on the Eastern Front
An East Prussian Soldier's Memoir of Combat and Captivity on the Eastern Front
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2007
On September 25, 1944, Hitler attempted to shore up his faltering forces by creating the Volkssturm or People's Army. His new draft called into service all remaining able-bodied men, including those whose civilian labor had previously been deemed indispensable. Among the latter was an East Prussian...
Courtney Hicks Hodges
From Private to Four-Star General in the United States Army
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2006
In the annals of military history, only rarely has someone earned the distinction of rising from the rank of private to full general. Born January 5, 1887, Courtney Hodges attended West Point during the early 1900s. After failing Mathematics at West Point, he returned home for three months before enlisting...
Unconventional Warrior
Memoir of a Special Operations Commander in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This fascinating look at the life of a modern-day professional soldier gives the reader an inside view of the deadly global war on terror. Herd argues that conflicting political objectives have muddied the way forward for the on-the-ground commanders and thus threaten the prospect of any real victory...
A MiG-15 to Freedom: Memoir of the Wartime North Korean Defector Who First Delivered the Secret Fighter Jet to the Americans in 1953
Memoir of the Wartime North Korean Defector Who First Delivered the Secret Fighter Jet to the Americans in 1953
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
On September 21, 1953, U.S. airmen at Kimpo Air Base near Seoul, Korea, were startled to see landing a MiG-15, the most advanced Soviet-built fighter plane of the era, piloted by Senior Lieutenant No Kum-Sok, a 21-year-old North Korean Air Force officer. Once he landed, Lieutenant No found that his...
Between Two Evils: The World War II Memoir of a Girl in Occupied Warsaw and a Nazi Labor Camp
The World War II Memoir of a Girl in Occupied Warsaw and a Nazi Labor Camp
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2008
This vivid memoir describes the author's experiences as young girl in Poland, forced to flee to Warsaw after the Nazi bombing of Brest at the outbreak of World War II. She recounts the realities of life in occupied Poland, including the arrest by the Gestapo of her father and his death soon after...
Base Ball Founders
The Clubs, Players and Cities of the Northeast That Established the Game
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
This book completes the series of histories of the clubs and players responsible for making baseball the national pastime that began with Base Ball Pioneers, 1850–1870 (McFarland 2011). Forty clubs and hundreds of pioneer players from the first hotbeds of New York City, Philadelphia, New Jersey,...
by John Kenneth Muir
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2005
The films of John Carpenter cover a tremendous range and yet all bear his clear personal stamp. From the horrifying (Halloween) to the touching (Starman) to the controversial (The Thing) to the comic (Big Trouble in Little China), his films reflect a unique approach to filmmaking and singular views...
Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy
Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
This group of new critical essays offers multidisciplinary analysis of director Peter Jackson's spectacularly successful adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002) and The Return of the King (2003). Part One of the collection,...
Terror Television
American Series, 1970-1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2008
Although horror shows on television are popular in the 1990s thanks to the success of Chris Carter's The X-Files, such has not always been the case. Creators Rod Serling, Dan Curtis, William Castle, Quinn Martin, John Newland, George Romero, Stephen King, David Lynch, Wes Craven, Sam Raimi, Aaron...