I Was Interrupted

I Was Interrupted
Author: Nicholas Ray
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2023-09-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0520916670

One of the most original, rebellious, and idiosyncratic directors in the American cinema, Nicholas Ray lived and worked with an intensity equal to that of his films. Best known for his direction of James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), he is also well regarded for his cult western Johnny Guitar (1954), and such prestigious noir classics as On Dangerous Ground (1951). I Was Interrupted offers a provocative selection of the filmmaker's writings, lectures, interviews, and more.

Katharine Whitney Curtis

Katharine Whitney Curtis
Author: Jordan Whitney-Wei
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2020-01-14
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1476664587

How do you invent an Olympic sport? For Katharine Whitney Curtis, it took the right idea, great talent, some good timing, and the determination to make it happen. The originator of synchronized swimming as we know it today, she even wrote the first book on the subject in 1936. But there was much more to her life and career. After the start of World War II, Curtis became a recreational director in the American Red Cross and followed the troops wherever the course of war took them, serving under Generals Patton and Eisenhower, before becoming a director of travel for the U.S. Army in Europe during the Cold War. Unbound by fear or the narrow expectations of society, this was a woman who lived ahead of her time, making things happen along the way. As her first biography, this book generously features Curtis's own words, selected from more than 2,000 pages of letters, and contextualized by her surviving friends and family members.

Congressional Record

Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1238
Release: 1961
Genre: Law
ISBN:

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Their Life's Work

Their Life's Work
Author: Gary M. Pomerantz
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2013
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1451691637

Drawn from personal interviews with the players themselves, a chronicle of the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers, who won an unprecedented and unmatched four Super Bowls in six years.

How McGruff and the Crying Indian Changed America

How McGruff and the Crying Indian Changed America
Author: Wendy Melillo
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2023-08-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1588342239

Pulitzer Prize nominated journalist Wendy Melillo authors the first book to explore the history of the Ad Council and the campaigns that brought public service announcements to the nation through the mass media. How McGruff and the Crying Indian Changed America: A History of Iconic Ad Council Campaigns details how public service advertising campaigns became part of our national conversation and changed us as a society. The Ad Council began during World War II as a propaganda arm of President Roosevelt's administration to preserve its business interests. Happily for the ad industry, it was a double play: the government got top-notch work; the industry got an insider relationship that proved useful when warding off regulation. From Rosie the Riveter to Smokey Bear to McGruff the Crime Dog, How McGruff and the Crying Indian Changed America explores the issues and campaigns that have been paramount to the nation's collective memory and looks at challenges facing public service campaigns in the current media environment.

Flight

Flight
Author: Walter White
Publisher:
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1926
Genre: African American women
ISBN:

"Scenes of Negro life in New Orleans, Georgia, and New York. The heroine, after passing as white, decides to return to her own people." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation