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A History Of The Hal Roach Studios

by Richard Lewis Ward

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 Aided by a comprehensive filmography and production synopses, this work recounts an overlooked chapter in American cinema, not only detailing the business operations of Hal Roach's productions but also exposing the intricate workings of Hollywood's rivalrous moviemaking establishment.
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Black Troops, White Commanders, And Freedmen During The Civil War

by Howard C. Westwood

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 Recounts the bitter experiences of black men who were admitted to military service and the problems associated with the shifting status of African Americans during the Civil War. This book covers the roles played by Lincoln and Grant in beginning black soldiery and the sensitive issues that arose when black soldiers were captured by Confederates.
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A Rhetoric Of Style

by Barry Brummett

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 Illustrates how style is increasingly a global system of communication as people around the world understand what it means to dress a certain way, to dance a certain way, to decorate a certain way, to speak a certain way. This book sees style as a system of signification grounded largely in image, aesthetics, and extrarational modes of thinking.
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William Burroughs And The Secret Of Fascination

by Oliver Harris

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 William Burroughs is one of America's great writers. This book examines the major works Burroughs produced in the 1950s - "Junky", "Queer", "The Yage Letters", and "Naked Lunch" - to piece together a material record of his creative history during his germinal decade as a writer.
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Well Satisfied With My Position - The Civil War Journal Of Spencer Bonsall

by Spencer Bonsall

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 Offers an account of army life during the Civil War's Peninsula Campaign and Battle of Fredericksburg. This book details the camp life of a soldier from firsthand experience, outlines the engagements of the 81st, and traces the Battle of Fredericksburg and the Peninsula Campaign. It records facts about camp conditions.
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Wings Over Illinois

by Arthur E. Abney

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 Recounts World War II veteran Gene Abney's illustrious aviation career, documenting a span in our own nation's history from the vantage of the skies. This work introduces readers to hangar flying - exciting end-of-day flight tales told in the hangar - with sixty stories provided by military and civilian airmen from across the country.
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Revisiting Racialized Voice - African American Ethos In Language And Literature

by David G. Holmes

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 Argues that past misconceptions about black identity and voice, codified from the 1870s through the 1920s, inform contemporary assumptions about African American authorship. Pointing to the intersection of African American identity, literature, and rhetoric, this work begins to construct rhetorically workable definitions of black voice.
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Editorializing The Indian Problem - The New York Times On Native Americans, 1860-1900

by Robert Hays

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 Drawing on 4 decades of ""New York Times"" editorials, this book demonstrates the magnitude of the conflict between Native American and white European cultures as settlers and adventurers spread across the continent in the post-Civil War period. It provides perspectives on the public images of Natives and their place in a nation bent on expansion.
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If No Moon

by Moira Linehan

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 Documents the effects of profound loss and the dark withdrawal into grief. Here, crossovers between craft and art, form and voice, knitting and memory, recur throughout the poems.
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Red Clay Suite

by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

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 A book of poems which expresses the poet's familiarity with the actual and imaginary spaces that the American South occupies in our cultural lexicon. It approaches the southern landscape as utopia and dystopia - a crossroads of race, gender, and blood.
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Abraham Lincoln - The Observations Of John G.Nicolay And John Hay

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 In 1890, Abraham Lincoln's two main White House secretaries, John G Nicolay and John Hay, published the ten-volume biography "Abraham Lincoln: A History". This book presents the personal observations of the secretaries during the Lincoln presidency, placing ten excerpts in chronological order.
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Black Identity - Rhetoric, Ideology, And Nineteenth-Century Black Nationalism

by Dexter B. Gordon

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 Investigates the problem of racial alienation and the importance of rhetoric in the formation of black identity in the United States. Exploring the origins of that rhetoric, this work reveals how the ideology of black nationalism functions in contemporary African American political discourse.
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Our Culture Of Pandering

by Paul Simon

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 Interrogates the arenas of politics, media, religion, and education to decry the disturbing practices that confuse public service with profit-making ventures or popularity contests. This work suggests long-term solutions to the problems that threaten our country's moral, financial, and intellectual well-being.
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Finding Susan

by Molly Hurley Moran

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 Susan Hurley Harrison disappeared from upscale Ruxton, Maryland, on August 5, 1994. Her body was discovered in the woods of northern Maryland two years later and her death was ruled a homicide. This work talks about a woman's search for her sister and details the helplessness experienced by families of missing persons.
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Hector P. Garcia - Everyday Rhetoric And Mexican American Civil Rights

by Michelle Hall Kells

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 Examines the transition of Mexican Americans from political and social marginalization to civic inclusion after World War II. This book focuses on the public rhetoric of veteran rights activist and physician Dr Hector P Garcia, a Mexican immigrant who achieved unprecedented influence within the US political system.
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Dark Alphabet

by Jennifer Maier

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 Contains poems that explore the everyday mysteries of our common experience with humor, lucidity, and an unblinking yet compassionate eye.
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Lizzie Borden In Love - Poems In Women'S Voices

by Julianna Baggott

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 Presents a collection of poems that offers commentary in the voices of women as varied as Mary Todd Lincoln and Monica Lewinsky. These poems often focus on a particular moment in life: Katherine Hepburn discovers the dead body of her brother in an attic, or painter, Mary Cassatt mourns the failure of her eyesight.
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Starring The Text - The Place Of Rhetoric In Science Studies

by Alan G. Gross

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 Establishes the rhetorical analysis of science as a respected field of study. This book summarizes the state of the field and demonstrates the role of rhetorical analysis in the sciences. It appeals to rhetoricians, historians, philosophers, and sociologists interested in science.
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Between Politics And Ethics - Toward A Vocative History Of English Studies

by James N Comas

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 Tracing the development of politics and ethics in contemporary English studies, this book questions the political orientation of the discipline. It also proposes a rethinking of the history of English studies based on a "vocative" dimension of writing - the idea that writers form a virtual community by "calling to" and listening to other writers.
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Always Danger

by David Hernandez

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 Offers a lyrical and imaginative exploration into the hazards that surround people's lives - whether it's violence, war, mental illness, car accidents, or the fury of Mother Nature. In this collection of poems, the author embraces the element of surprise: a soldier takes refuge inside a hollowed-out horse, a man bullies a mountain, and more.
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Roam

by Susan B. A. Somers-Willett

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 Explores the loss of a parent to cancer and the resulting uprootedness that loss can create. In searching for a sense of home and belonging, this collection of free verse looks both inward and outward, to landscapes rural and urban, and speaks in haunting and musical lyrics.
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Radio, Morality, And Culture - Britain, Canada, And The United States, 1919-1945

by Robert S. Fortner

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 Examines the moral controversies surrounding radio's development during its formative years. In comparing the fledgling medium in Great Britain, Canada, and the United States, the author documents how the church failed to participate in radio's moral development and instead engaged in internecine warfare over issues of legitimacy and orthodoxy.
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Appeals In Modern Rhetoric - An Ordinary-Language Approach

by M.Jimmie Killingsworth

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 Introduces students to current issues in rhetorical theory through an extended treatment of the rhetorical appeal, a frequently used but rarely discussed concept at the core of rhetorical analysis and criticism. Shunning the standard Aristotelian approach the author uses common, accessible language to explain the concept of the rhetorical appeal.
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Strange Valentine

by A. Loudermilk

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 An indictment of love, fixating on the paranoid relationship between body and state, on the dangerous relationship between family history and sexual history, and on the elusive relationship between gender and sexuality - specifically as experienced in the working-class towns of the southernmost Midwest.
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