Book Author: John Kennedy Toole Publisher: Louisiana State University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0807106577 ISBN-13: 9780807106570..
From BooklistMueller's work possesses such power and authority that this collection that includes poems from her previous five books and a significant set of new poems is cause for celebration. Her major theme is announced in the title poem. It is the miracle of human love, despite all odds: "Speaki..
In 1989, when award-winning nature photographer C. C. Lockwood headed west on a shoot, a friend in Kanab, Utah, insisted that he photograph a Grand Canyon sunset from the Colorado River. Thus, this ardent adventurer made his first trip down that waterway, from Lee's Ferry to Pearce Ferry, and discov..
Book by Davis, William C. Author: Davis, William C Publisher: Louisiana State University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0807100684 ISBN-13: 9780807100684..
Tells of the life and career of swing era jazz trumpeter Bernard "Bunny" Berigan (1908-1941) and the substantial impact he had on music during his short life. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. Author: Dupuis, Robert Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr Binding: Hardcover Language: Eng..
Book by Cohen, Lucy M. Author: Cohen, Lucy M. Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0807111228 ISBN-13: 9780807111222..
Book by McCall, Edith S. Author: McCall, Edith S. Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0807111279 ISBN-13: 9780807111277..
Recovering from its initial shock and resulting total absorption in the Watergate political scandal, the United States in the mid-1970s began to address itself to the moral implications of its politics, both national and international. Author: Harris, William C. Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr Bi..
REAR COVER NOTES: Edmund Ruffin (1794-1865) was a Virginia gentleman and one of the most radical of the Southern leaders, and an important Southern agricultural reformer before the Civil War. When the war broke out, it was he who fired the first shot at Fort Sumter, and when his cause failed, he die..
Published in 1989, James Bacque's Other Losses: An Investigation into the Mass Deaths of German Prisoners of War at the Hands of the French and Americans After World War II asserts that Eisenhower deliberately starved to death German prisoners of war in staggering numbers. These papers presented at ..
Thousands visit New Orleans' cemeteries each year to see the arresting above-ground tombs. Sandra Russell Clark's spellbinding collection of photographs captures art, poetry, history, spirit, and humanity, as well as the solid substance of stone, marble, and wrought iron. The ethereal and tangible a..
"Duffy has done a vast amount of patient research and a careful job of writing. The product is a volume which throws a bright light upon the disease problems that vied with the Indians, the French and the British in making life uncertain and death a constant neighbor in America's cradle days." Journ..
Book by Cowan, Bainard Author: Cowan, Bainard Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0807110027 ISBN-13: 9780807110027..
"The Testimony of Simone Weil," the first of the four long poems that form Kate Daniels' new collection, gives voice to the radical French political thinker and religious philosopher. Here Weil meditates on some of the most famous images by Eugene Atget, the acclaimed documentary photographer who re..
Brief sketches reveal the personalities, background and careers of the nearly six hundred men who attained the rank of general in the Union Army Author: Warner, Ezra J. Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr Binding: paperback Language: english ISBN-10: 0807131490 ISBN-13: 9780807131497..
Biographical sketches of the major Confederate military leaders focus on their military careers as well as peacetime activities Author: Warner, Ezra T. Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0807108235 ISBN-13: 9780807108239..
Book by Hilton, Stanley E Author: Stanley E. Hilton Publisher: Louisiana State University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0807107514 ISBN-13: 9780807107515..
Book by Gage, John T. Author: Gage, John T. Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0807107905 ISBN-13: 9780807107904..
Webre, Stephen, Jose Napoleon Duarte And The Christian Democratic Party In Salvad Author: Webre, Stephen Andrew Publisher: Louisiana State University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0807104620 ISBN-13: 9780807104620..
Book by Stephens, Lester D. Author: Stephens, Lester D. Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0807109959 ISBN-13: 9780807109953..
Book by Szasz, Thomas Stephen Author: Szasz, Thomas Stephen Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0807101966 ISBN-13: 9780807101964..
Product DescriptionProvides an account of nearly a century of US thinking on the reasons for Latin America's apparent "backwardness," from 1870, when annexation of the Dominican Republic was debated, through the 1960s, with the implementation of John F. Kennedy's doomed Alliance for Progress. Annota..