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(0)Johnny Heller
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The true story of the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the famous Battle at the OK Corral, by the New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City and Wild Bill. On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, nine men clashed in what would be known as the most famous shootout in American frontier history. Thirty bullets were exchanged in thirty seconds, killing three men and wounding three others. The fight sprang forth from a tense, hot summer. Cattle rustlers...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 316 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Documents the contributions of western pilots, navigators, and air-traffic controllers to bring food, medicine, and other survival supplies to Berlin during the Soviet blockade, describing the effort's dangerous and politically charged risks.
3) Liberal fascism: the secret history of the American left, from Mussolini to the politics of meaning
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
487 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Draws parallels between the fascism of the 1930s and the liberalism of the present, arguing that liberal politicians from Woodrow Wilson to Hillary Clinton have espoused policies and principles similar to those of Hitler's National Socialism.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
x, 275 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A maddened creature, frothing at the mouth, lunges at an innocent victim—and with a bite, transforms its prey into another raving monster. It's a scenario that underlies our darkest tales of supernatural horror, but its power derives from a very real virus, a deadly scourge known to mankind from our earliest days. In this fascinating exploration, journalist Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica Murphy chart four thousand years in the history, science,...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A World War II veteran and Hollywood gas station attendant describes how his good looks and open bisexuality culminated in liaisons with numerous celebrities, providing a chronicle of Hollywood's sexual underground in the 1940s and 1950s.
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Everything about me is in my films," Steven Spielberg has said. Taking this as a key to understanding the hugely successful moviemaker, Molly Haskell explores the full range of Spielberg's works for the light they shine upon the man himself. Through such powerhouse hits as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., Jurassic Park, and Indiana Jones, to less-appreciated movies like Empire of the Sun, to the haunting Schindler's List, Haskell shows how...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Image
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
200 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . has been a breakout bestseller ever since authors-and born vaudevillians-Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick on NPR's Weekend Edition. Lively, original, and powerfully informative, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar..... is a not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical thinkers and traditions, from Existentialism (What do Hegel and Bette Midler have in...