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Gerald F. Sweeney
How does a frightened child overcome his fear of the world and Depression America? Amazingly the answer comes through sports, sex, help from the Church and a friendly Wizard. Set…
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A novel about an older Manhattan magazine executive’s pursuit of a young, brown girl. Together they initiate a quest for Scott Joplin’s lost operas and the identity of a black…
Gerald F Sweeney
A TOURNAMENT OF A DISTINGUISHED WHITE ORDER follows the complicated love duel between a creative Army private and a sensuous young actress, a pair troubled by a romance set during…
Wizard Ho!, the seventh and last novel in the Columbiad series, follows a merry band of Mahattanites in their search for a Wizard and his sidekick, Ripple, who operate a…
Crashing into Sunrise portrays a rowdy youth’s transition from teenage mayhem to the awareness of the larger world around him. It depicts the emotional and intellectual upheaval of a young…
Comes the Electric Circus is a novel that reflects the tumultuous changes from the traditional 1950’s to the mind-blowing 60’s. The story of the romance between two young Manhattanites, at…
Two Plays features two dramas, one about American expatriate writers in Paris during the 1920's, the other about American journalists in the Chinese Revolution.
US Composers and Poets shows the relationship between American Classical Music and American Literature.
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Down Broadway is a collection of short stories set in mid-century New York, reflecting the glamor, sophistication and high times of the postwar years.
Gerald, F. Sweeney
Eagles Rising chronicles an Irish-American family’s transition from rural Iowa to Chicago where they confront labor, gangster and race wars. The WWI hero, haunted by a youthful anarchist plot, seeks…
Presents papers from the conference marking the Edwards tercentenary, which took place in October 2003 at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. The papers represent work being done on…
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