Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+5189+4294967200 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712670 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1674959 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1683049 A wide-ranging collection of essays by a contemporary critic and historian traces four decades of writing and considers such diverse topics as Beethoven, Kilimanjaro, and Britains Imperial War Museum. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1260833 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1394200 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1196568 Presents more than 200 letters exchanged between Julia and Avis DeVoto, her friend and unofficial literary agent. This collection opens the window on Julias deepest thoughts and feelings. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1053775 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1382604 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1115977 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1168898 Prolific journalist, historian, political columnist, and practicing Catholic Wills (now 76) writes an intensely opinionated re-evaluation of leaders and celebrities he has encountered, among them Studs Terkel, Beverly Sills, William Buckley, Richard Nixon, and more. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1272606 This work is a collection of Marilyn Monroes written artifacts, notes to herself, letters, even poems, in her own handwriting, never before published, along with rarely seen intimate photos. These bits of text, jotted in notebooks, typed on paper, or written on hotel letterhead, reveal a woman who loved deeply and strove to perfect her craft. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1008981 The best-selling author of Downtown Owl and Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs takes a humorous look at expectations versus reality in pop culture, sports, and media, in a book that explores such questions as: Why is pop culture obsessed with time travel?; What do Kurt Cobain and David Koresh have in common?; and much more. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1057800 In this collection of essays, Walter Isaacson reflects on the lessons to be learned from Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, and various other interesting characters he has chronicled as a biographer and journalist. Isaacson also describes the joys of the so-called writing life and the challenges he sees for journalism in the digital age. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1023923 Actor Jerry Orbachs widow, Elaine, shares their 25-year love story, including many of his more meaningful poems written to her. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1020052 A volume of autobiographical tales by the bi-weekly columnist for the Times Literary Supplement is set in New York and includes profiles of his family members and neighbors as well descriptions of his tragicomic struggles to support himself as a writer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=753589 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=830544 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=714384 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=688563 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=682121 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=614389 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=626380 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=642109 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=621755 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=597097 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=611103 My Dear Mr. Stalin is the first publication that contains the complete correspondence between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin. This collection of more than three hundred hot-war messages, never before fully available in any language, is an invaluable primary source for understanding the relationship that developed between these two great world leaders during a time of supreme world crisis. The correspondence, secret at the time, begins with a letter Roosevelt wrote to Stalin offering aid to the Soviet Union following Hitlers surprise attack in 1941. It ends with a message that was an attempt to minimize the differences between the two leaders, approved by Roosevelt only minutes before his death in 1945. The book traces the evolution of their unique relationship, revealing the statesmanship of the two men and their thinking about the grave events of their time. An informative introduction to the volume and generous annotations set the letters in context.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=615401 In the pages of The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, Esquire, New York, Maxim, and GQ, Mark Jacobson has proven himself one of New York Citys finest journalistic provocateurs. Now he collects the best of his years on the beat in Teenage Hipster in the Modern World. Jacobson has been witness to a decidedly different sort of history. His beats range far and wide, delving into the realms of politics, sports, and celebrity in pieces on such luminaries as Bob Dylan, Julius Erving, Chuck Berry, Pam Grier (in her Scream, Blacula, Scream days), and many others. But for Jacobson, New York City, and urban living in general, has always been his muse, from the beginnings of punk rock in the time of pregentrification to the heart-wrenching events of 9/11.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=603186 Jane Smiley has selected a new crop of promising stories, continuing the Best New American Voices series tradition of identifying the best young writers on the cusp of their careers. These pieces are chosen from hundreds of nominations submitted by writing programs, such as the Iowa Writers Workshop and Johns Hopkins, and by summer conferences, including Sewanee and Bread Loaf. Delve into this collection to discover both the riches of writers workshops and tomorrows literary stars.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=552751 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=637655 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=532703 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=543443 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=476078 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=412276 When John F. Kennedy called America the land we love more than forty years ago, he was reminding us of the lofty ideals on which our country was founded. But what are those ideals, and how have Americans defined them? Is America the land of George Washington and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who rallied the countrys spirits for unity in wartime, or is it a land of dissent, a land in which Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Martin Luther King Jr. remind us of our duty to protect our most fundamental freedoms? Are we defined by the speeches of Thomas Jefferson and Ronald Reagan, or by the humor of H. L. Mencken and Mark Twain? Caroline Kennedys answer in A Patriots Handbook is that we are all of these things and more. In fact, the America you will meet in these pages is one that derives its strength from its diversity, and from the way our variety allows us constantly to reinvent ourselves. We are a country of poets, from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Langston Hughes; we are a country of songwriters, from Irving Berlin to Woody Guthrie. We are a country of The Pledge of Allegiance, but also of The Times They Are A-Changin. The poems, songs, speeches, letters, and historical documents Caroline has chosen for this remarkable collection remind us of the foundations on which America was built. But they also ask us to examine what it truly means to be a patriot, even if our assumptions are challenged along the way. Because it is only by doing so that America can truly be our own. A Patriots Handbook is a book that every family should own, a valuable resource that can be shared for years to come.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=461607 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=446603 In this anthology of more than 100 selections of essays, poetry, and fiction by some of Americas most gifted writers, Charters sketches the unfolding of this most turbulent decade. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=418441 Since its first issue in 1933, Esquire has been a showcase for up-and-coming literary superstars. Gleaned from its pages, this anthology features stories by well-known writers dating from the early 1930s through the late 1990s, from Albert Camus and Ernest Hemingway to Annie Proulx and Elizabeth McCracken. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=427020 One of the nations most prestigious awards for short fiction, the annual O. Henry collection features a sampling of the years best contemporary short stories. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=433442 With pieces culled from more than 100 prestigious writing programs around the country and Canada, including the Iowa Writers Workshop and the Sewanee Conference, this volume showcases a remarkable array of talent--and offers the excitement of discovering a new generation of writers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=429459 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=324993 Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a minister, was also a groundbreaking activist at the forefront of the social movements reshaping nineteenth-century society. At the same time he was a leading literary presence whose writings ranged from passionate polemics to sensitive studies of the natural world - and spoke to readers both in his time and in ours.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=300182 This reference makes significant literary documents accessible to students, scholars, and nonacademic readers. It supplements the regular DLB volumes, thus expanding the biographical and critical documents on which those essays are based. The volume assembles, in separate chapters, documents related to Menckens most notable careers: man of letters, journalist, historian of language, libertarian, pundit, magazine editor, and antipuritan literary critic. The final chapter deals with his lengthy posthumous career. Various kinds of materials have been gathered, some of them previously unpublished, and most not available to the general reader. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=311289 Edited and with an introduction by Tobias Wolff, Writers Harvest 3 showcases lifes small miracles, ironies, and obstacles. Whether its Andre Dubus depicting a soldier who has found God and must suffer the consequences, Barry Lopez chronicling the lives of a couple of horse thieves whose fate is as determined as the transit of the planets, or Mary Gordon writing of one womans relationship with her blind neighbor, these stories mark the prominence of the short story in American letters. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=367620 The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature brings together American writings in diverse languages from Arabic and Spanish to Swedish and Yiddish, among others. Presenting each work in its original language with facing page translation, the book provides an important complement to all other anthologies of American writing, and will serve to complicate our understanding of what exactly American literature is. American literature appears here as more than an offshoot of a single mother country, or of many mother countries, but rather as the interaction among diverse linguistic and cultural trajectories. Consider that Cotton Mather spoke half a dozen languages and wrote in both Spanish and Latin. Or that the first short story known to have been written by an African American (and reproduced here) was written in French. Not only a literature of immigration and assimilation, American multilingual literature participates in the larger literary tradition which too often marginalizes authors who complicate the fit of authorship, citizenship, and language.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=313643 A mix of popular genres from top-selling American authors. Readers will relish themes of love, glamour, politics, perseverance, resilience, innovation and the pioneer spirit from some of the best-loved writers of modern fiction, nonfiction and biography. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=317770 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=292139 Cincinnati native William Haines Lytle volunteered for service in the Mexican War in late 1847. By 1861 the fervent pro-states rights Democrat with strong family ties to Kentucky slaveholders was in personality and temperament more a Southern cavalier than a Yankee. But, like his father and grandfather before him, he believed strongly in the preservation of the Union. Lytles Civil War letters detail the intensity of the battles in the western theater and illuminate the activities of the Army of the Ohio and the Army of the Cumberland in the early years of the war. Because he liked to participate in society, his writings also offer glimpses of the interaction between Union officers and Southern civilians in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama. During the Mexican War, Lytle primarily served garrison duty. Little has been recorded about garrison life during the Mexican War, but it was there Lytle learned to deal with troops and to handle periods of inaction and unpleasant situations. These skills would prove invaluable to him in the Civil War. Lytle became known for his courage under fire and his devotion to his troops. He rose quickly through the ranks, participating in combat at Carnifex Ferry and Perryville. Lytle was killed at Chickamauga while leading a valiant charge to stop Confederate troops storming through an opening in Union lines.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=285561 In more than 400 letters from both famous figures and ordinary citizens, Letters of the Century encapsulates the people and places, events and trends that shaped our nation during the last hundred years. Here is Mark Twains hilarious letter of complaint to the head of Western Union, an ecstatic letter from a young Charlie Chaplin upon receiving his first movie contract, Einsteins letter to Franklin Roosevelt warning about atomic warfare, Mark Rudds generation gap letter to the president of Columbia University during the student riots of the 60s, and a letter from young Bill Gates imploring hobbyists not to share software so that innovators can make some money. In these pages our centurys most celebrated figures become everyday people and everyday people become part of history. Here is a veterans wrenching letter left at the Vietnam Wall, a poignant correspondence between two women trying to become mothers, a heartbreaking letter from an AIDS sufferer telling his parents how he wants to be buried, and an indignant e-mail from a PC user to his on-line server.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=274761 With the incisive pen of a newspaperman and the compassionate soul of a poet, Mike Royko was a Chicago institution who wrote a daily column for nearly thirty-five years - first for the Chicago Daily News, then the Sun-Times, and finally the Tribune - and his Pulitzer Prize-winning commentary was syndicated in more the 600 newspapers nationwide. Pretension and hypocrisy were his targets, and his well-aimed salvos, delivered with blunt honesty and penetrating wit, won him fans and foes alike. One More Time collects the best of Roykos columns from his long, celebrated career. Culled from 7500 columns and spanning four decades, from his early days to his last dispatch, the writings in this collection reflect a radically changing America as seen by a man whose keen sense of justice and humor never faltered. From the Cold War to the Persian Gulf War, from Richard J. Daley to Richard M. Daley, Royko trained his eye on it all.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=278994 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=266267 Alice Walker tells a mothers tale of reunion between her daughters: one trapped by tragedy in the dirt-poor South, the other making it big in the city. In an engrossing short story, Marilyn French movingly depicts two young women growing apart in an alcoholic, dysfunctional family. Joy Fielding shapes a humorous but sharp-edged story of the consequences when half-sisters meet for the very first time on a TV talk show. Ann Beattie tells of a pair of friends, as close as sisters, locked in a smothering embrace. In a bittersweet tale, Fae Myenne Ng writes of growing up in a culture that considers a family with only girl children failed. Recalling her grandmother and great-aunt, Olivia Goldsmith unfolds a dark memoir of sisterhood gone terrifyingly awry. Cristina Garcia relates a poignant account of sisters separated for thirty years, one trapped in Cuba, the other escaped to Miami, reunited at long last. And Rita Dove retells one of the classic fairy tales of sisters, Beauty and the Beast, from the disparate viewpoints of all the women involved.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=290517 For the first time, the acerbic 60 Minutes commentator has collected the funniest, wisest, and most interesting of his letters, spanning several decades and addressing issues both momentous and trivial. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=445096 A unique and beautiful gift edition of a collection of love letters written by one of the most popular poets of all time, Kahlil Gibran. These letters form a collection of unparalleled significance for Gibran scholars and admirers. They shed an entirely new light on Gibrans innermost feelings, never so frankly expressed as here. Illustrated in two-colors throughout with original pen and ink sketches by Gibran and facsimiles of correspondence, this is a fascinating insight into an elusive yet extremely popular figure. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=288571 The stories in Growing Up Ethnic in America depict a variety of experiences, including poignant but failed attempts at conformity and the alienation often felt by ethnic Americans. But they also tell of the strength gained through the preservation of their communities, and the realization that it is often the difference from the norm that helps them to succeed. In pieces that suggest that what constitutes American identity is far from settled, these writers testify to the profound effect ethnic differences have on personal and communal understandings of America, and illustrate the diversity that is the source of the nations great discord and infinite promise.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=217948 In recent decades the number of American girls and women committed to competitive sports has grown dramatically. A Whole Other Ball Game shows that womens literature devoted to sports has followed suit. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=224005 In this groundbreaking and far-reaching collection, writers such as Andre Dubus, Stanley Elkin, and Adrienne Rich, confront what it means to be disabled in our society. Through the vehicles of nonfiction, poetry, fiction, and drama, Staring Back is the first anthology to open the landscape of the disabled experience for exploration and discussion. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=275860 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=960055 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=28226 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=500314 Selection of poetry, stories, drama, and essays by 40 Puerto Rican writers, late-19th - late-20th centuries. Organized into thematic categories such as History and Politics and Anxiety and Assimilation. Introduction by Santiago makes clear his goal, that the book will provide us with answers to our innermost questions of identity. Majority of texts originally written in English or Spanglish; translations from Spanish range from good to excellent--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=184387 In this collection of essays, her first since the best-selling The Worst Years of Our Lives, Barbara Ehrenreich delves into the soul of the 1990s in search of the American zeitgeist after The Decade of Greed. What she finds is a sour passivity. Only a homicidal car-rental spokesman or penis-severing small-town manicurist can induce a brief outbreak of giddiness. The youthful, pumped-up look has given way to menopause chic, and our biggest hope for a national health program is that it will provide coverage for Dr. Jack Kevorkians services. Even channel surfing may have to be automated soon if the current listlessness continues.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=522235 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=255408 A powerful collection of original and recent stories and poems by some of todays most notable authors - including Maya Angelou, Terry McMillan, Alice Walker - and some of literatures newest voices that speak directly to the lives and concerns of African-American women in the nineties. Sonia Sanchez, Gloria Naylor, ntozake shange, and J. California Cooper join fifty-four other women from the African-American literary scene to lend their voices to the concerns, frustrations, joys, and experiences of Black women today. With courage, anger, and passion they confront the social issues of AIDS, crack, violence, abortion, and sexual abuse. They write of the sustaining bonds between women - among mothers, daughters, sisterfriends, lovers - and of the love of men and the absence of men in their lives. It is a celebration of the strength, diversity, and spirit of African-American women in the past, present, and into the future.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=254450 Drawing upon 30,000 wartime letters, the editors provide an immediate sense of the lives of women in every branch of the armed services during World War II. The first comprehensive account of its kind, this book fills in important pages of history with the words of the women themselves. 25 black-and-white photos. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=61350 Contemporary commentators have observed that postmodern America is less a melting pot than a buffet table. In American Identities people of diverse ethnic, religious, social, gender, and sexual backgrounds refuse to merge but insist on a multiplicity of well-maintained identities, editors Robert Pack and Jay Parini explain. This sixth volume in the popular Bread Loaf Anthology series gathers more than three dozen voices who testify that there is no single American Experience, but instead a multiplicity of experiences. These poems, stories, and essays describe in occasionally stark, sometimes humorous, and often moving terms what it means to be black and American, or gay and American, or Latino and American, or Jewish and American within this society.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=118820 Rene Magritte (1898-1967) did not keep copies of his letters, nor did he generally save those he received. But Harry Torczyner, Magrittes confidant, friend, and attorney, cherished the letters he received from the great Belgian Surrealist artist between 1957 and 1967, and kept them all - along with duplicates of his own responses. Here, selections from this lively correspondence are reproduced and set in context by Torczyners notes. In his letters, Magritte dealt candidly with the daily concerns of his art. He revealed the workings of his own creative process in words and, frequently, in drawings. Although they belonged to different worlds, Magritte the painter and Torczyner the lawyer shared similar mental inclinations and a vivid curiosity. They were both hostile to obligatory sentiments; boredom was deemed to be the supreme menace, and they remained mutually critical in their correspondence and in their encounters - while remaining friends. The Magritte-Torczyner connection had its special tone, which this book faithfully reflects. Illustrated with reproductions of paintings mentioned in the letters, as well as with personal photographs of both men, this intriguing book offers fresh insights into the last ten years of Magrittes life and work.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=77081 Edward Abbey was an anarchist, activist, philosopher, and the spiritual father of the environmental movement. He was also a passionate journal keeper, a man who filled page after page with notes, philosophical musings, character sketches, illustrations, musical notations, and drawings. His scribbling, as he called it, began in 1948, when he served as a motorcycle MP in postwar Italy, and continued until his death in 1989, totaling twenty-one volumes.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=543164 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=214833 This extraordinary record of the African American struggle for freedom and equality collects 89 exceptional documents that represent the best of the recently published five-volume Black Abolitionist Papers. In these compelling texts, African Americans tell their own stories of the struggle to end slavery and claim their rights as American citizens. (Univ. of North Carolina Press) http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=774459 Everyone knows Alex Haley as the world-renowned author of the international bestseller ROOTS, and as the writer who collaborated with Malcolm X on his historic autobiography. What many people dont know is that Alex Haley began his professional writing career as a journalist. It was his experience in this arena that earned him the plum assignment as Playboys first -- and foremost -- interviewer. Witness Haleys work with the pre-Ali Cassius Clay, in which the posture of the young rebel fell away and a sensitive, intelligent young man emerged. He lured Malcolm X beyond his scathing Black Muslim rhetoric to reveal the agile, perceptive mind of a charismatic leader. With Johnny Carson, Haley revealed the man behind the mask of a charming television raconteur. And, in a devasting interview with George Lincoln Rockwell, the self-appointed fuhrer of the American Nazi Party, Haley deftly exposed the frightening heart and soul of the twisted man and his racist ideology. A fascinating slice of recent history, an extraordinarily candid collection of celebrity interviews and personal reminiscences, ALEX HALEY: THE PLAYBOY INTERVIEWS anthologizes for the first time a gifted writers finest work at its controversial and informative best. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=211322 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=256537 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=827203 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=144851 According to Cherokee legend, Grandmother Spider brought the light of intelligence to the people. For the first time, Spider Womans Granddaughters brings to light the original American. It is a unique addition to feminist literatire--and a treasure trove for the ever-increasing audience for Native American works. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=757757 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=28761 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=7146 Highlighting the legendary civil rights leaders speeches, sermons, and writings, here are 120 quotations, complemented by 16 striking historical photographs, focusing on seven areas of concern the community of man, racism, civil rights, justice and freedom, faith and religion, nonviolence, and peace. Also included is a detailed chronology- of Dr. Kings life and an impressive introduction from Mrs. King on her husbands life and legacy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=24381 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=773620