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Set in Hollywood in 1951 - during the McCarthy era of blacklisting "red" artists. A nice all-American musical comedy star betrays her Commie co-workers.

First edition, 445 pp., Hardcover, faint age-toning to page edges else very good in a lightly worn and price-clipped dust jacket. *Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees...

Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in...

The Flowers of Evil, which T. S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth century France with its outspoken portrayal of lesbian...

Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - -between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the...

Inconstant and forbidding, the arctic lured misguided voyagers into the cold for centuries--pushing them beyond the limits of their knowledge, technology, and stamina. A Fabulous Kingdom: Tales of...

The author explores the destruction of the natural beauty of the American West through the experiences of a variety of people, including Mexican farmers and drug dealers, Arizona gun enthusiasts, and...

Prophesies of Godlessness explores the surprisingly similar expectations of religious and moral change voiced by major American thinkers from the time of the Puritans to today. These predictions of...

Why do some violent conflicts endure across the centuries, while others become dimly remembered ancient struggles among forgotten peoples? Is nationalism really the powerful force that it appeared to...

The development of technology and the inventions that have marked the progress of civilization from the earliest times to 1950 are described and examined in light of social, economic, and political...