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They Thought They Were Free
Originally published: Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, Ã1955.
Robert Maynard Hutchins
"Mayer's memoir is by far the most exciting Hutchins book ever. His style, wit, and passion--and his insight--put it into a class by itself."--Studs Terkel "Mayer's memoir is by far the most exciting Hutchins book ever. His style, wit, and passion--and his insight--put it into a class by itself."--Studs Terkel
The Corner
A devastating portrait of the American drugs war, from the creators of THE WIRE.
Lyric Shame
Gillian White argues that the poetry wars among critics and practitioners are shaped by “lyric shame”—an unspoken but pervasive embarrassment over what poetry is, should be, and fails to be. “Lyric” is less a specific genre than a way to project subjectivity onto poems—an idealized poem that is nowhere and yet everywhere.
Too Stubborn to Die
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They Thought They Were Free
National Book Award Finalist: Never before has the mentality of the average German under the Nazi regime been made as intelligible to the outsider.” —The New York TImes They Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany. Milton Mayer’s book is a study of ten Germans and their lives from 1933-45, based on interviews he conducted after the war when he lived in Germany. Mayer had a position as a research professor at the University of Frankfurt and lived in a nearby small Hessian town which he disguised with the name “Kronenberg.” These ten men were not men of distinction, according to Mayer, but they had been members of the...
Fortune Favors the Bold
Born in England, James Walker was raised almost exclusively in an orphanage. After he joined the British army as a teen, his mother, living in the States, brought him to America. There he volunteered for the LRRP detachment of the 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division. He soon became "Limey", the only British citizen in the 101st LRRPs. They were given every sort of assignment under the sun. Back in camp, nothing could diminish their reputation as hellraisers. Yet it was in Vietnam that Walker found everything he had ever searched for in the military: respect, camaraderie, loyalty, dedication and courage.
