Edward Wagenknecht: 4 books

Upon its original publication in 1962, Edward Wagenknecht’s The Movies in the Age of Innocence immediately earned recognition as a classic in the history of early cinema. A tribute to American silent film from the first-person perspective of one who grew up with the medium, the volume surveys the...

Praise for the original edition “Theodore Roosevelt in all his infinite variety—the vitality of him, the charm, the humor, the intellectual avidity, the love of people, the flattering devotion to his country. To a surprising degree the personality flashes before the reader as it flashed...

Wagenknecht's "Nathaniel Hawthorne" is neither a chronological biography nor a critical study, though it contains much information about Hawthorne’s life and his works. It is simply a study of Hawthorne’s character and personality, based on his writings, his letters and journals, and on all that has been written about him. 

In the early days of cinema, when actors were unbilled and unmentioned in credits, audiences immediately noticed Mary Pickford. Moviegoers everywhere were riveted by her magnetic talent and appeal as she rose to become cinema's first great star. In this engaging collection, copublished with...