Next Practices: An Executive Guide for Education Decision Makers, Vidal Darryl, Casey Michael

Автор: Vidal G
Название: Golden Age. The
ISBN: 0375724818 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375724817
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 10390.00 T
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Описание: The Golden Age is Vidal's crowning achievement, a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War II and the Cold War transformed America, once and for all, for good or ill, from a republic into an empire. The sharp-eyed and sympathetic witnesses to these events are Caroline Sanford, Hollywood actress turned Washington D.C., newspaper publisher, and Peter Sanford, her nephew and publisher of the independent intellectual journal "The American Idea." They experience at first hand the masterful maneuvers of Franklin Roosevelt to bring a reluctant nation into the Second World War, and, later, the actions of Harry Truman that commit the nation to a decade-long twilight struggle against Communism developments they regard with a decided skepticism even though it ends in an American global empire. The locus of these events is Washington D.C., yet the Hollywood film industry and the cultural centers of New York also play significant parts. In addition to presidents, the actual characters who appear so vividly in the pages of The Golden Age include Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins, Wendell Willkie, William Randolph Hearst, Dean Acheson, Tennessee Williams, Joseph Alsop, Dawn Powell and Gore Vidal himself.
The Golden Age offers up U.S. history as only Gore Vidal can, with unrivaled penetration, wit, and high drama, allied to a classical view of human fate. It is a supreme entertainment that is not only sure to be a major bestseller but that will also change listeners' understanding of American history and power."

Автор: Vidal G
Название: Hollywood
ISBN: 0375708758 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375708756
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 10390.00 T
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Описание: Follows the career of Caroline Sanford, a brilliant and beautiful newspaper publisher who leaves Washington to become a Hollywood producer and movie star.

Автор: Vidal, Gore
Название: The Last Empire
ISBN: 037572639X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375726392
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 11010.00 T
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Автор: Vidal,Gore
Название: Washington Dc
ISBN: 0349105278 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780349105277
Издательство: Little Brown
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Цена: 15170.00 T
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Описание: * The sixth novel in the chronology of Vidal`s epic NARRATIVES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history.

Автор: Martin Darryl
Название: Art of Making a Harpsichord
ISBN: 0709085702 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780709085706
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 80080.00 T
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Описание: * A detailed exploration of how historical harpsichords were made, with instructions on how the modern reader can do the same. * Comprehensively illustrated with 400 photos and line drawings * Written by an internationally respected musical instrument museum curator and instrument researcher with considerable harpsichord-making experience.

Автор: Pinckney Darryl
Название: Black Deutschland
ISBN: 1250117976 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250117977
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
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Цена: 13490.00 T
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Описание:

Jed--young, gay, black, out of rehab and out of prospects in his hometown of Chicago--flees to the city of his fantasies, a museum of modernism and decadence: Berlin. The paradise that tyranny created, the subsidized city isolated behind the Berlin Wall, is where he's chosen to become the figure that he so admires, the black American expatriate. Newly sober and nostalgic for the Weimar days of Isherwood and Auden, Jed arrives to chase boys and to escape from what it means to be a black male in America.

But history, both personal and political, can't be avoided with time or distance. Whether it's the judgment of the cousin he grew up with and her husband's bourgeois German family, the lure of white wine in a down-and-out bar, a gang of racists looking for a brawl, or the ravaged visage of Rock Hudson flashing behind the face of every white boy he desperately longs for, the past never stays past even in faraway Berlin. In the age of Reagan and AIDS in a city on the verge of tearing down its walls, he clambers toward some semblance of adulthood amid the outcasts and expats, intellectuals and artists, queers and misfits. And, on occasion, the city keeps its Isherwood promises and the boy he kisses, incredibly, kisses him back.

An intoxicating, provocative novel of appetite, identity, and self-construction, Darryl Pinckney's "Black Deutschland "tells the story of an outsider, trapped between a painful past and a tenebrous future, in Europe's brightest and darkest city.

Автор: Vidal,Gore
Название: Selected essays
ISBN: 0349120455 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780349120454
Издательство: Little Brown
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Цена: 17190.00 T
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Описание: * A new, accessible selection of brilliant and essential reading from one of America`s modern masters