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Thomas Fensch
Two teenagers, living worlds apart . . .
A Jewish girl, with her parents, hiding from the Nazis
in Amsterdam . . .
A Black boy, living outside Chicago…
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Collections of interviews with notable modern writers
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Thomas Fensch (Virginia Union University, USA)
German historian Helmuth Greiner served as Custodian of the War Diary in Hitler’s Headquarters August 1939 until April, 1943, when he was dismissed, apparently for not being sufficiently pro-Nazi. His…
Elvis Presley was never accused of a crime, but for years the FBI kept a file on Presley because of the crimes that went on in the background of his…
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at the dangerous edge of social justice is a book of profiles on courage on facing prejudice in America. Chapters include: Emmett Till, killed at 14 in 1955; Medgar Evers…
Timeless (Pen) Names examines the writers behind four famous pseudonyms-Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, George Orwell and Dr. Seuss-their lives, their books, their careers and why their books are so beloved…
This book examines four novels and one short story: Herman Melville’s last novel, The Confidence-Man; Mark Twain’s short story, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg in the 1935 novel, It Can’t…
John Steinbeck
Adopting the structure and themes of Arthurian legend, John Steinbeck creates a Camelot on a shabby hillside above Monterey on the California coast and peoples it with a colorful band…
Thomas C. Fensch
Readers who love Lewis Carroll or the flower power generation of the 1960s will love this book. Originally published in 1970, Alice in Acidland suggests that Alice’s experiences echo the…
Thomas C Fensch
The Sordid Hypocrisy of To Protect and To Serve … …is a savage indictment of the worst police practices in America. The Los Angeles Police adopted the motto To Protect…
The Man Who Changed His Skin is the first complete biography of John Howard Griffin. Griffin journeyed from Texas to France alone at 15, to study, in 1935. When the…
Well over thirty years before Thomas Keneally wrote the book Schindler’s List, journalist Herbert Steinhouse interviewed Oskar Schindler. That 1949 account, plus an interview with Steinhouse, opens this collection of…
Over thirty years before Thomas Keneally wrote the book Schindler’s List, journalist Herbert Steinhouse interviewed Oskar Schindler. That 1949 interview, and Steinhouse’s subsequent magazine article, plus an extensive interview with…
John F Kennedy
120 personal letters between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, kept secret until almost the year 2000, have been published for the first time. Begun by Nikita Khrushchev as a…
Lecturer in Chemistry John F Kennedy (University of Birmingham)
A collection of 120 personal letters between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, kept secret until almost the year 2000, is published for the first time. They share congratulations about…
