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David E. Lilienthal: The Journey of an American Liberal
Over the course of a career that stretched from the early 1920s through the late 1970s, David Eli Lilienthal (1899-1981) became a larger-than-life symbol of American liberalism. Born in Morton, Illinois to Jewish immigrants from what later became Czechoslovakia, Lilienthal attended DePauw University and Harvard Law School. After practicing labor and public utility law in Chicago, Governor Philip La Follette appointed him to the Wisconsin Public Service Commission in 1931. In 1933, President Roosevelt appointed Lilienthal as one of three founding directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority. In 1946, President Truman appointed him as the first chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Lilienth...
Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide
This biographical dictionary of some 3,000 photographers (and workers in related trades), active in a vast area of North America before 1866, is based on extensive research and enhanced by some 240 illustrations, most of which are published here for the first time. The territory covered extends from central Canada through Mexico and includes the United States from the Mississippi River west to, but not including, the Rocky Mountain states. Together, this volume and its predecessor, Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865, comprise an exhaustive survey of early photographers in North America and Central America, excluding the eastern United States and easte...
Bernardine's Shanghai Salon
Bernardine Szold Fritz arrived in Shanghai in 1929 to marry her fourth husband. Only thirty-three years old, she found herself in a time and place like no other. Political intrigue and scandal lurked on every street corner. Art Deco cinemas showed the latest Hollywood flicks, while dancehall owners and jazz musicians turned Shanghai into Asia’s top nightlife destination. Yet from the night of their wedding, Bernardine’s new husband did not live up to his promises. Instead of feeling sorry for herself or leaving Shanghai, Bernardine decided to make a place for herself. Like other Jewish women before her, she started a salon in her home, drawing famous names from the world of politics, the...
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The Colonel of Chicago
Biography of Robert R. McCormick, owner and publisher of the Chicago Tribune newspaper.
Electricity on the Farm
Includes separately paged "Dealer section ... with which is consolidated the Rural electric dealer" (called later "Merchandising supplement") from Mar. 1928 to June 1932.
Justice Need Not Be Judicial
When the abbreviation (ADR) alternate dispute resolution is used, the first thought that runs across the minds of people in the legal profession is, something to do with the arbitration, mediation, or negotiation. Nay! There is more to (ADR),which has skipped the attention of advocates, and others associated with legal matters; that one need not rush to the courts to resolve each and every dispute, a stimulus for thinking differently, on how to resolve problems, can be found in this book.
Silver Cities
This vastly expanded edition presents a lively interdisciplinary history of the first century of urban photography in America.
