The University Press Of Kentucky: 775 books

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by John Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010

Belligerent and evasive, Josef von Sternberg chose to ignore his illegitimate birth in Austria, deprived New York childhood, abusive father, and lack of education. The director who strutted onto the set in a turban, riding breeches, or a silk robe embraced his new persona as a world traveller, collected...
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by M.B.B. Biskupski
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011

During World War II, Hollywood studios supported the war effort by making patriotic movies designed to raise the nation's morale. They often portrayed the combatants in very simple terms: Americans and their allies were heroes, and everyone else was a villain. Norway, France, Czechoslovakia, and England...
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by Richard J. Sommers, Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Ted Tunnell
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009

The fourth book in the Virginia at War series casts a special light on vital home front matters in Virginia during 1864. Following a year in which only one major battle was fought on Virginia soil, 1864 brought military campaigning to the Old Dominion. For the first time during the Civil War, the...
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The Dunning School

Historians, Race, and the Meaning of Reconstruction

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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013

From the late nineteenth century until World War I, a group of Columbia University students gathered under the mentorship of the renowned historian William Archibald Dunning (1857--1922). Known as the Dunning School, these students wrote the first generation of state studies on the Reconstruction...
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Listen Here

Women Writing in Appalachia

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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013

Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia is a landmark anthology that brings together the work of 105 Appalachian women writers, including Dorothy Allison, Harriette Simpson Arnow, Annie Dillard, Nikki Giovanni, Denise Giardina, Barbara Kingsolver, Jayne Anne Phillips, Janice Holt Giles, George Ella...
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Tolkien's Art

A Mythology for England

by Jane Chance
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2001

" J.R.R. Tolkien's zeal for medieval literary, religious, and cultural ideas deeply influenced his entire life and provided the seeds for his own fiction. In Tolkien's Art, Chance discusses not only such classics as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, but focuses on his minor...
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by Harry M. Caudill
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014

This book of stories celebrates people who have a magnetism, a tenacity, a personal vision, an independence, and a self-sufficiency that elude most of us today.
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Executive Secrets

Covert Action and the Presidency

by William J. Daugherty
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 1996

A frank and refreshing evaluation of several Chief Executives, their Directors of Central Intelligence, and even some lower in the hierarchy, Executive Secrets shines light on the development and execution of foreign policy through the understanding of the tools available, of which covert action may...
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The Pursuit of Truth

A Historian's Memoir

by William H. McNeill
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005

William H. McNeill's seminal book The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (1963) received the National Book Award in 1964 and was later named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of the twentieth century by the Modern Library. From his post at the University of Chicago, McNeill became...
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Willis Duke Weatherford

Race, Religion, and Reform in the American South

by Andrew McNeill Canady
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016

At the turn of the twentieth century, few white, southern leaders would speak out in favor of racial equality for fear of being dismissed as too progressive. Willis Duke Weatherford (1875--1970), however, defied convention as one of the first prominent white southern liberals to dedicate his life...
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Becoming King

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Making of a National Leader

by Troy Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009

"The history books may write it Reverend King was born in Atlanta, and then came to Montgomery, but we feel that he was born in Montgomery in the struggle here, and now he is moving to Atlanta for bigger responsibilities." -- Member of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, November 1959 Preacher...
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True Faith And Allegiance

The Burden of Military Ethics

by James H. Toner
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013

James H. Toner is professor of international relations and military ethics at the U.S. Air War College and author of Morals Under the Gun.
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by William Lynwood Montell
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2005

Perhaps no one has keener insight into human nature than the small-town trial lawyer. All but lost in an era of corporate law firms and specialized practice, this charismatic figure was once at the political center of a community and was the holder of its many secrets. A small town attorney's only...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2007

Her image is iconic: Oprah Winfrey has built an empire on her ability to connect with and inspire her audience. No longer just a name, "Oprah" has become a brand representing the talk show host's unique style of self-actualizing individualism. The cultural and economic power wielded by Winfrey...
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