A fascinating biography of Bulgaria's tragic monarch, Boris III, based on private correspondence and extensive interviews with members of the Bulgarian royal family. The son of King Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Boris became king after the first World War. Noted for defying Hitler wishes for Bulgaria's Jews, the popular king died mysteriously in 1943 after a stormy meeting with Hitler.
In 1948, at the age of 57, Margaret Cantrell, an ex-Ziegfeld Follies singing star from Southern Illinois, married for the first time. Her bridegroom was Mac McIntyre, a childhood friend who had recently been widowed, and in one fell swoop she became stepmother, mother-in-law, and a grandmother. From her post-Broadway career as a receptionist for a large New York corporation, she moved to a Long Island farm and began the life of a country housewife. The family she inherited included three stepchildren, their spouses, and eventually twelve step-grandchildren. This lighthearted memoir of how she influenced that family, particularly the author, and changed forever their perception of what a stepmother, mother-in-law, and grandmother should be.
Beginning with the origins of their population in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the author traces the Scotch-Irish development from Lowland Scotland to Northern Ireland to the American colonies.Arriving in the East, the Scotch-Irish were characterized by other colonists as being fiery tempered, stubborn, hard drinking, and very religious, and they quickly made lasting impressions. Though the Scotch-Irish were in the minority, they managed to impact history. Most notably, they introduced the appeals system and the checks and balances system.
Love-shyness is a degree of social inhibition and timidity regarding the opposite sex that it is so severe it prevents participation in courtship, marriage, and family roles. It is estimated that 1.7 million American males suffer from love-shyness. These virginal, heterosexual men desire an intimate, committed relationship with a woman, but their acute timidity in informal social situations prevents them from asserting themselves.The Shy Man Syndrome is the first book aimed at a general audience to address this problem and offer ways to overcome it. Dr. Brian Gilmartin uses landmark text, Shyness and Love, as a basis for this work. For it, more than 300 chronically-shy, virginal men, between the ages of 19 and 50, were interviewed and tested. A second group, consisting of 200 non-shy men, was also studied. The Shy Man Syndrome contains the findings of this research, as well as therapeutic and preventative approaches for dealing with this debilitating affliction.We learn about the past family life of the love-shy mean; their school life during formative years; sexual development; medical symptoms; and psychological traits. We then witness treatments such as practice-dating therapy; psychodrama; role playing; visualization; and self-image therapy. The results of the study are presented in an absorbing manner that makes for fascinating, illuminating, and instructive reading.
_" -Dr. Israel Tribble, Jr., President, Florida Education Fund
No other narrative account of Abraham Lincoln's life has inspired such widespread and lasting acclaim as Charnwood's Abraham Lincoln: A Biography. Written by a native of England and originally published in 1916, the biography is a rare blend of beautiful prose and profound historical insight. Charnwood's study of Lincoln's statesmanship introduced generations of Americans to the life and politics of Lincoln and the author's observations are so comprehensive and well-supported that any serious study of Lincoln must respond to his conclusions.
"e;...an exhilarating exercise full of uncanny insights..."e; -PublishersWeekly
Hattie McDaniel was the first black to ever win an Oscar. She was also the first black woman to ever sing on American radio. In this fresh assessment of her life and career, Carlton Jackson tells the inside story of her working relationships, her personal life, and the many obstacles she faced as a black performer in the white world of show business during the first half of the twentieth century.
Did the bombing of Japan's cities-culminating in the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki-hasten the end of World War II? Edwin Hoyt, World War II scholar and author, argues against the U. S. justification of the bombing. In his new book, Inferno, Hoyt shows how the U. S. bombed without discrimination, hurting Japanese civilians far more than the Japanese military. Hoyt accuses Major General Curtis LeMay, the Air Force leader who helped plan the destruction of Dresden, of committing a war crime through his plan to burn Japan's major cities to the ground. The firebombing raids conducted by LeMay's squadrons caused far more death than the two atomic blasts. Throughout cities built largely from wood, incendiary bombs started raging fires that consumed houses and killed hundreds of thousands of men, women and children. The survivors of the raids recount their stories in Inferno, remembering their terror as they fled to shelter through burning cities, escaping smoke, panicked crowds, and collapsing buildings. Hoyt's descriptions of the widespread death and destruction of Japan depicts a war machine operating without restraint. Inferno offers a provocative look at what may have been America's most brutal policy during the years of World War II.
Chances Are is the first book to make statistics accessible to everyone, regardless of how much math you remember from school.
Examines cast changes in television programs in nearly four hundred meticulously researched entries filled with new and fascinating television facts and trivia. Each entry features a detailed synopsis of the series, air dates, and listings of the characters and actors who were written out, including the first and last air dates of their appearances. This authoritative, single-volume pop-culture encyclopedia, illustrated with nearly 80 black and white stills, also includes dozens of exclusive and never-before published interviews with the actors, actresses, writers, and producers who were personally involved with each series.
"e;Betty Garrett's memoir is a tale of grace under pressure. It's a lovely, moving song of survival."e;-Studs Terkel
Much is known about Nixon's actual visit to China, but the story of how it all came together has never been told until now. The advance team conquered a monumental task. Welcome to a rare glimpse of the guarded intricacies and exacting details of White House travel.
Describes Washingtons government institutions, explaining what the inhabitants of each building do on a day-to-day basis, and covers museums, monuments, embassies, and the Washington metro.
The world went wild with emotion in May 1927 when a 25-year-old Minnesota farm boy, turned airmail pilot, astounded the people of the globe with his highly prepared, excitingly daring, solo flight from New York to Paris. The plane, which he designed, is still one of the most popular attractions in the Smithsonian Institution. Much is known about the Spirit of St. Louis. Not so much is known about the spirit of the man who flew it. "The public's reception of him took on the aspects of a vast religious revival", wrote a book editor. A Harvard theologian says that for the time "Lindbergh changed the reputation of human nature". The pilot's character immensely magnified the achievement. His modesty and courtesy became legendary. It was said that his place in history was secured not only by what he did before and during that flight, but what he did not do after it. Will Rogers wrote, "People hadn't read clean stuff in so long they just went crazy over this". T. Willard Hunter, a personal acquaintance of Charles Lindbergh, weighs the character element of the Lindbergh phenomenon. He examines what went into that character - the Swedish heritage, family influences, his "lone eagle" childhood, attitudes toward religion, his early worship of science and later alarm at the global destruction threatened by "materialistic science", and his views on the role of force in both preserving and toppling civilization. The author explores Lindbergh's U.S. intelligence activities in Germany before World War II, his struggle against American participation, his concern for the plight of German Jews, the Nazi-sympathy charges, the Goering medal, and why he experienced such a devastating fall from grace. Thisbook is about the inner man and tries at each stage to deal with the why, with the motivations, with what made Lindbergh tick. It is a fresh understanding of a complex personality who contributed greatly to the way life is lived on this planet.
Based in part on author Felix's personal experiences as a political agent in Hungary in the decades after World War II, this work explains what the rules are for secret operations, why the U. S. needs them, and how good a job our government and others are doing in practice. Chapters cover the political and social systems that a spy must rely on, the personal dilemmas an agent faces, and the tricks to keeping one's cover. A new afterword features revelations on Raoul Wallenberg's fate, British turncoat Kim Philby, and more.
Black History Month is a year-round affair! In this second edition of 1,999 Facts about Blacks, approximately one third of these facts are achievements since 1986 when the first edition was published. Also included is a bibliography for those who want to pursue African-American history beyond the question-and-answer phase.
By opening the ever-escalating debate regarding Latin America's "e;underdeveloped"e; status and cloaking the seriousness of the situation with wit and humor, the Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot reached number one status on the nonfiction bestseller lists in many countries in Latin America. It reveals the connection between economic success and cultural values-attitudes toward work, education, health care and community-and the consequence of the Latin American people retaining or evolving these values.
Originally published in 1985, Underdevelopment Is a State of Mind_ was one of the first studies to examine Latin America's rocky development as cultural, rather than colonial, byproduct.
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