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The Lost Soldier
The Lost Soldier offers a perspective on World War II we don’t always get from histories and memoirs. Based on the letters home of Pete Lynn, the diary of his wife, Ruth, and meticulous research in primary and secondary sources, this book recounts the war of a married couple who represent so many married couples, so many soldiers, in World War II. The book tells the story of this couple, starting with their life in North Carolina and recounting how the war increasingly insinuated itself into the fabric of their lives, until Pete Lynn was drafted, after which the war became the essential fact of their life. Author Chris J. Hartley intricately weaves together all threads—soldier and wife, home front and army life, combat, love and loss, individual and army division—into an intimate, engaging narrative that is at once gripping military history and engaging social history.
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Hollywood Highbrow
Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically chan...
The Dark Playground
Imagine a playground in the daytime. Usually there are children playing, laughing, and having fun. Maybe families are having picnics or are just spending quality time together. Everyone is happy. Now picture that same playground at night. Itas like a whole different place. Itas the same playground, except now that some darkness is added, it becomes foreboding and maybe even scary. With almost anything in life, if even a little darkness is added, the same holds true. These thirteen stories demonstrate just how scary things can be when darkness in different forms is added to the most normal of things, and also how quickly things can turn for the worst and be totally unexpected when you think you have everything figured out.
Strange Days Indeed
"In our heart of hearts, we were all natural-born nudists" So writes 112-year-old Zet Quuimby in his quirky 2061 memoir, Strange Days Indeed: Memories of the Old World. Wanting to share with his era's new generations how we lived in less enlightened times, he elves into a long vanish era -- our -- exploring why we always covererd our bodies. Also, why we ate animals.
