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IVAN R. DEE, PUBLISHER Chicago•A Member of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group www.ivanrdee.com
INCLUDING COMPLETE BACKLIST AND NEW AMSTERDAM, J. S. SANDERS, AND BORDERLAND BOOKS
IVAN R. DEE, PUBLISHERRNAV.EEDMOCW.IWW CONTENTS
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New Titles for Spring 2007.............................................................................pages 3–24 Recent and Important Titles......................................................................................25–26 Complete Backlist, including New Amsterdam, J. S. Sanders, and Borderland Books Art, Architecture, Photography...................................................................27 Biography.............................................................................................................27–28 Food and Travel.......................................................................................................28 History...................................................................................................................28–32 American Childhoods Series.....................................................................29 American Ways Series.....................................................................................30 Literature and Letters.................................................................................32–35 Great Writers in 90 Minutes Series......................................................33 Philosophy and Religion....................................................................................36 Philosophers in 90 Minutes Series........................................................35 Politics, Current Affairs.............................................................................36–37 Religion...........................................................................................................................36 Sports................................................................................................................................37 Theatre and Drama......................................................................................37–38 Plays for Performance Series.....................................................................38 Index....................................................................................................................................39–41 Ordering Information....................................................................................................42–43
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Cover illustration: Times Square, 1989, by Malcah Zeldis, © Art Resource, New York
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The media blacklist that marked the height of American anti-communism
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WWW.IVANRDEE.COM IVAN R. DEE, PUBLISHER DAVIDEVERITT A SHADOW OF RED Communism and the Blacklist in Radio and Television The Cold War came to broadcasting in 1950. In that year, just as the Korean War was about to erupt, there appeared from a small publisher a booklet calledRed Channels, which listed 151 suspected Communist sympathizers in broadcasting. Within months the blacklist in radio and TV began. The purge of the airwaves, distinct from the better-known blacklist in the movie industry, provoked one of the American media’s great free-speech controversies. It affected scores of writers, directors, and actors, and involved some of the media’s largest figures, including Edward R. Murrow and Frank Stanton of CBS. Yet it was instigated by only a handful of anti-Red watchdogs—three ex-FBI agents, a former naval intelligence officer, and a grocer from Syracuse.A Shadow of Redthe efforts of these five guardians of thefollows broadcast media in a revealing history of the period, based on interviews, personal correspondence, FBI reports, and court transcripts. The conflict has routinely been portrayed as a simplistic morality tale of persecutors and the persecuted, the standard witch-hunt narrative of right-wing fanatics hounding political innocents whom they insisted were agents of the Communist devil. But, as David Everitt makes clear, the blacklisters, though excessive and destructive, were not deluded hunters of an imaginary menace. Their crusade is best understood as the culmination of a long-standing ideological struggle in broadcasting, in which neither side would indulge its adversaries. Ultimately the conflict would be decided in John Henry Faulk’s historic and dramatic libel trial against his accusers, which starred Louis Nizer for the prosecution and brought all the issues, and all the old grievances, into the open. A Shadow of Redis brilliant history, a cautionary tale about political extremism and civil liberties in time of emergency, and a vivid example of the polarized political battle over who controls the media, a struggle that continues to this day. With seven black-and-white photographs. David Everitt, a former magazine editor, is an independent scholar who writes on entertainment and the media. His writings have appeared in theNew York Times,Entertainment Weekly,Biography, andAmerican History, and he has also writtenKing of the Half Hour.He lives in Huntington, New York. April / American History, Radio and Television / 384 pages / Illustrated $27.50 cloth / ISBN 1-56663-575-6 / ISBN13: 978-1-56663-575-2 Rights: W
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The songs, lyrics, and lives of Broadway’s greatest showmen
IVAN R. DEE, PUBLISHERWW.IVANRDEE.COMW STEFANKANFER THE VOODOO THAT THEY DID SO WELL The Wizards Who Invented the New York Stage Manhattanites have always had a disdain for the rearview mirror. That’s where trends begin, and the citizens of Gotham are concerned with the here and now rather than the then and there. Yet Manhattan’s history is rich, filled with personalities who helped create the modern theater and made Broadway the center of show business—a distinction it still holds.The Voodoo That They Did So Well Stefan Kanfertakes an endearing look at some of these giants. writes about Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, and Stephen Sondheim, and considers the shining stars of New York’s vibrant Yiddish theater, the colorful personalities who starred in two-a-day vaudeville, and the astonishing life of Lorenzo Da Ponte, a Renaissance man if ever there was one (Mozart’s most brilliant collaborator landed in Manhattan after dazzling Europe, and wound up selling groceries and teaching Italian at Columbia University). Richard Rodgers’s first song hit was “Manhattan,” with lyrics by Lorenz Hart. The chorus read: “The great big city’s a wondrous toy / Just made for a girl and boy / We’ll turn Manhattan / Into an isle of joy.” Manhattan remains an isle of joy in large part because of the men and women who led the way, and whose lives and art animate every page of this delightful gavotte. Stefan Kanfer’s writings and criticism have appeared in most major publications, and his more recent books includeStardust Lost:A History of the Yiddish Theater;Ball of Fire, about the sources of Lucille Ball’s comedy;Groucho; andThe Last Empire, a social history of the De Beers diamond company. AtTimemagazine for more than twenty years, he is now a contributing editor ofCity Journaland a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library. He lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. May / Theater, Entertainment / 224 pages $24.95 cloth / ISBN 1-56663-735-X / ISBN13: 978-1-56663-735-0 Rights: W
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Turning sadness into an inspiration for living
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WWW.IVANRDEE.COMIVAN R. DEE, PUBLISHER NORMANJ. FRIED THE ANGEL LETTERS Lessons That Dying Can Teach Us About Living Working in the pediatric oncology unit of a New York hospital for fifteen years, Norman Fried has been psychotherapist and counselor to both physically ill children and their worried family and friends. He has been part of scenes of bitterness and pain—and has observed how these sad moments have taught all concerned about life’s important lessons. Sitting at the bedsides of children with life-threatening cancer, he has been sadly fortunate to hear their messages of hope and love, which have taught him how to help those they were leaving behind.The Angel Lettersis an extraordinary book based on his experiences. It is intended for the living but is composed in the form of letters addressed to nine different children whose last months and days Dr. Fried shared intimately. From each experience he draws a lesson—in love, family, strength, belonging, friendship, understanding, believing, truth, and acceptance—that can help parents and family learn how to make their way through the tragedy of their sick or lost child, drawing strength from their understanding of what has happened, and from an appreciation for their child’s perspective. “No story ends in death,” Dr. Fried writes, “not in this book, and not in life. What happens after death is ours to ponder and struggle with. Some questions remain unanswered. But how a family lives after a death, how we as mourners can carry on—these are the questions I wrestle with here.” InThe Angel Lettershe proves to be an inspiring companion for this difficult journey. “A treasure of a book...a comfort to grieving families as well as a guidebook for professionals.”—Marshall P. Duke, Emory University “A truly gifted and compassionate psychologist...he teaches all of us how we might navigate the emotionally challenging waters we must cross when caring for terminally ill children.”—Gerald P. Koocher, president, American Psychological Association Norman J. Fried, Ph.D., is director of psychosocial services in pediatric hematology/oncology at Winthrop University Hospital on Long Island, New York. A clinical psychologist with graduate degrees from Emory University, he has also taught in the medical schools of New York University and St. John’s University, and has been a fellow in clinical and pediatric psychology at Harvard Medical School. He is married with three sons and lives in Roslyn, New York. March / Recovery, Child Care and Parenting / 144 pages $19.95 cloth / ISBN 1-56663-718-X / ISNBN13: 978-1-56663-718-3 Rights: W NEW TITLES5
How the quest for racial justice in the South backfired
IVAN R. DEE, PUBLISHERW.IVANRDEE.COMWW MICHAELW. FITZGERALD SPLENDID FAILURE Postwar Reconstruction in the American South Since the civil rights era of the 1960s, revisionist historians have been sympathetic to the racial justice motivations of the Radical Republican Reconstruction policies that followed the Civil War. But this emphasis on positive goals and accomplishments has obscured the Republicans role in the overthrow of their own ’ program. Rich with insight, Michael Fitzgerald’s new interpretation of Reconstruction shows how the internal dynamics of this first freedom movement played into the hands of white racist reactionaries in the South.Splendid Failurebegins with the alliance of postwar freedpeople and a diverse group of Southern white dissidents to create a potential popular majority in the region. A wave of Northern patriotic sentiment sustained them, culminating in congressional enactment of equal suffrage. Yet the North’s wartime revulsion for Southern racism proved to be transient, Mr. Fitzgerald suggests, and financial missteps and other governance problems quickly soured idealistic Northerners on the practical consequences of the Radical Republican plan. Losing Northern support and anxious to maintain their fragile lease on power, the Republicans decided on a strategy that would encourage Southern economic development—andbrought on the corruption that bedeviled Reconstruction governments. Southern Republicans thereby forfeited a large measure of national sympathy, and the freedpeople drove this process by the very skill with which they pressed a racial justice agenda and fed a gathering racial backlash. Thus, Mr. Fitzgerald argues, Southern Republicans set the stage for the explosion that swept them from power and resulted in Northern acquiescence to the bloody repression of voting rights. The failed strategy offers a chastening example to present-day proponents of racial equality. New in the American Ways Series. Michael Fitzgerald teaches American history at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, where he lives. He is the author of prizewinning articles on aspects of Reconstruction and in two other books has written on the politics of emancipation and of agricultural change in the post–Civil War period. June / American History, Reconstruction / 224 pages $26.00 cloth / ISBN 1-56663-734-1 / ISBN13: 978-1-56663-734-3 Rights: W
For other books in the American Ways Series, see page 30.
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A modern tragedy brings a farm family to the edge of grief
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WWW.IVANRDEE.COMIVAN R. DEE, PUBLISHER MICHAELMCCARTHY THE SUN FARMER The Story of a Shocking Accident, a Medical Miracle, and a Family’s Life-and-Death Decision Ted Fink’s wife Rhoda heard the explosion from the living room, where she sat reading the day’s mail and sipping iced tea. She ran to the front door and saw a massive curling fireball. Her husband was in the flames, she was certain. She called 911, asking for help at the farm.... So begins Michael McCarthy’s extraordinary portrayal of a real-life nightmare: an Illinois corn farmer so badly burned in a tractor accident that only his feet, protected by his new steel-toe boots, escaped the flames. While he lay unconscious, his wife, with no way of knowing how disabled or disfigured he would be after multiple surgeries, had to decide whether to allow doctors to enshroud him in a cocoon of artificial skin, or let him die. This rare and intimate story carries the reader through the Finks’ agonizing experience as Ted is sedated into a coma for six months while Rhoda is left alone to contemplate this life-or-death decision. Even the possibility of saving Ted depends upon the product of laboratories at MIT, where Mr. McCarthy takes the reader to describe the long-shot development of the world’s first artificial skin and the ambitious Greek chemist who refused to let his dream of inventing it die. Because this new skin enables people to survive traumas as never before, it also forces hard choices with unpredictable consequences on ordinary people. To gather scenes that are by turns wrenching, beautiful, and searing, Mr. McCarthy, who met the Finks while working on their story for theWall Street Journallength over two years at their farm., talked with them at His heartfelt narrative of tragedy and redemption weaves together a saga of six generations of Midwestern farmers while revealing the dark side of a nostalgic occupation bedeviled by accident and death. Michael McCarthy reported and edited for theWall Street Journalfor twenty-one years before he recently left to pursue educational and other writing interests. He was born and grew up in St. Louis and is now studying at DePaul University in Chicago. May / Science, Medicine / 224 pages $24.95 cloth / ISBN 1-56663-700-7 / ISBN13: 978-1-56663-700-8 Rights: W
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A rich cornucopia of literary and cultural perspective
IVAN R. DEE, PUBLISHERNRVA.IWWWOCMED.E ROGERKIMBALL ANDHILTONKRAMER,EDITORS COUNTERPOINTS 25 Years ofThe New Criterionon Culture and the Arts “The New Criteriona refuge for a civilizing element inoperates as short supply in contemporary America: honest criticism.”—Wall Street Journal “As a critical periodicalThe New Criterionis probably more consistently worth reading than any other magazine in English.” —Times Literary Supplement Since its founding in 1982 by the art critic Hilton Kramer and the pianist and music critic Samuel Lipman,The New Criterionhas brought unparalleled verve, clarity, and wit to the vocation of criticism. It is not only America’s foremost voice of critical dissent in culture and the arts; it is also an energetic ally in the battle against cultural and intellectual amnesia. At a moment when many institutions have become willing collaborators in despoiling our intellectual and artistic legacy,The New Criterionhas been a standard-bearer for literary and cultural excellence. Drawn from twenty-five years of the magazine, this abundant collection contains a generous sampling of the very best writing fromThe New Criterion, featuring the judgments of our generation’s most astute and entertaining observers. The many contributors include Brooke Allen, Stefan Beck, James Bowman, Anthony Daniels, Guy Davenport, John Derbyshire, Ben Downing, Paul Dean, Daniel Mark Epstein, Joseph Epstein, John Gross, Laura Jacobs, William Logan, Harvey Mansfield, Kennethy Minogue, Jay Nordlinger, Eric Ormsby, Cynthia Ozick, David Pryce-Jones, Mordecai Richler, Roger Scruton, John Simon, Mark Steyn, and David Yezzi. Roger Kimball and Hilton Kramer are co-editors and co-publishers of The New Criterion. Mr. Kimball’s other books includeThe Rape of the Masters,Art’s Prospect,The Long March,Lives of the Mind, Experiments in Reality, andTenured Radicals lives in South. He Norwalk, Connecticut. Mr. Kramer, former chief art critic of the New York Times, has also writtenThe Triumph of Modernism,The Twilight of the Intellectuals,The Revenge of the Philistines, and The Age of the Avant-Garde. He lives in Damariscotta, Maine. May / Criticism, Essays / 512 pages $35.00 cloth / ISBN 1-56663-706-6 / ISBN13: 978-1-56663-706-0 Rights: W
Other books edited by Roger Kimball and Hilton Kramer
The Survival The Betrayal The Future of Culture of Liberalism of the (see page 35)(see page 36)European Past (see page 36)
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The best arms and the best bats couldn’t win it all
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WWW.IVANRDEE.COMIVAN R. DEE, PUBLISHER TIMMARCHMAN THE METS IS A GOOD THING A Season of Hope, Exhilaration, and Despair “The Mets is a good thing. They give everybody jobs. Just like the WPA.”—Billy Loes, former Giant and Dodger, selected by the Mets in the 1961 expansion draft Some ballclubs, like the Chicago Cubs, are loved for their failures; some, like the Brooklyn Dodgers, for breaking their fans’ hearts. Not the New York Mets. In four decades of drab baseball played in the drab borough of Queens beneath the looming shadow of the New York Yankees, the Mets have inspired not romance, sentiment, or nostalgia but anger. Mets fans know suffering, and, given the team’s long history of drug and drink, suicidal trades, insane free-agent maneuvers, and marvelously inept baseball, they have long since learned that the worst suffering comes when things look brightest for the home nine. InThe Mets Is a Good Thing, Tim Marchman, baseball columnist for theNew York Sun, chronicles the joys and frustrations of the 2006 season that opened with prospects that never looked brighter. From brilliant young stars like David Wright and Jose Reyes to future Hall of Famers Pedro Martinez and Tom Glavine, from the twenty-year-old phenom Lastings Milledge to the forty-seven-year-old sage Julio Franco and the innovative general manager Omar Minaya, the team seemed to have everything it needed and more—speed, power, verve, and style, and the chance to seize Gotham’s imagination from a Yankees team long removed from its most recent dynasty. Yet the better the season went, the more the wheels seemed about to come off. Mr. Marchman’s narrative goes onto the field, into the dugout, and behind the scenes to describe the catastrophe that appeared to edge closer with every passing day. He has a sharp eye for everything from the most advanced statistical analysis to the Mets’ roots in the urban planning disasters of the 1950s. Informed by baseball intelligence, composed without the rose-colored clichés that most sportswriters have come to rely on,The Mets Is a Good Thingis a baseball book unlike any other you’ve ever read. Tim Marchman is the baseball columnist of theNew York Sun. His criticism and reporting have appeared in theNew Republic, the Weekly Standard, and theNational Review, and he was formerly managing editor of theNew York Press. Born in New York City and educated at Allegheny College, he now lives in Chicago. May / Baseball, Sports / 256 pages / Illustrated $24.95 cloth / ISBN 1-56663-579-9 / ISBN13: 978-1-56663-579-0 Rights: W
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How it was growing up on a Midwest farm in hard times
IVAN R. DEE, PUBLISHERCOMWWI.WED.EAVRN DWIGHTW. HOOVER A GOOD DAY’S WORK An Iowa Farm in the Great Depression Despite sublime landscapes and bountiful harvests, farming is hard work and always has been. The Great Depression in rural America, which began in the 1920s and lasted until World War II, made it still harder. At a time when tractors were replacing horses and the family farm was giving way to the large, single-crop enterprise, the struggle to survive and modernize in a period of economic scarcity was especially sharp.A Good Day’s Worklooks at this era through the events of day-to-day life on a single farm. Dwight Hoover grew up on an Iowa farm in the midst of the depression’s fears and uncertainties. His detailed descriptions of daily work on his farm in each of the year’s four seasons form a fascinating if grim reminder of what it was like to be a child with adult responsibilities. Mr. Hoover shows just how much labor was required by the family farm, how the work resembled the organic farming practices of today, and why a farm built on this work ethic was so difficult to sustain. Descended from a long line of farmers, young Dwight learned agricultural methods that were derived from both family history and experience, and were fairly typical of time and place. He also talks about his agricultural education, both in school and in the youth organizations of the 4-H Club and the Future Farmers of America; his community; and his ultimate decision to leave the farm rather than “carry it around on his back” for the remainder of his days. That decision was taken by many others of his generation who moved from farm to city in search of a different life.A Good Day’s Workis a unique memoir in that Mr. Hoover recalls the rough edges as well as the happy moments of rural life. It is an honest re-creation of a vanishing world. With eleven black-and-white photographs. Dwight Hoover is emeritus professor of history and former director of the Center for Middletown Studies at Ball State University. He lives with his wife in Sarasota, Florida. May / Agriculture, Great Depression / 256 pages / Illustrated $26.00 cloth / ISBN 1-56663-702-3 / ISBN13: 978-1-56663-702-2 Rights: W
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The untold story of prejudice and triumph on the courts
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