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  • U. S. Composers and Poets
    Gerald F. Sweeney
    Gerald F. Sweeney’s new book is titled 'US Composers and Poets - The Intersection of American Classical Music and American Literature.'The relationship between American composers and American writers has always been close. Creating the music to accompany and enhance the prose and poetry pf our greatest writers has given us a treasury of musical masterpieces, including Ives’ 'Co...
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    42,61 €

  • TWO PLAYS
    Gerald F. Sweeney
    Two Plays is the title of a new book by Gerald F. Sweeney. Featured are two full-length dramas: one called Divine Privilege set in Paris in the 1920’s among expatriate American writers; the other A Porcelain to Mend concerns American journalists during the Chinese Revolution.The explosion of modern culture following the atrocities of World War I centered in Paris where Art (Pic...
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    26,21 €

  • DOWN BROADWAY
    Gerald F. Sweeney / Gerald FSweeney
    There was a magic time in the last century when New York became the world’s capital of the arts and commerce. Confidant in world affairs and awakening to the revelations of the 1960’s, Manhattan thrived on creativity and thrilled at its place and powerful effect on interpersonal discovery. Here are the stories about those exciting and electric times and the people swept up in t...
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    22,19 €

  • COMES THE ELECTRIC CIRCUS
    Gerald F. Sweeney / Gerald FSweeney
    Comes the Electric Circus is a novel that reflects the tumultuous changes from the traditional 1950’s to the mind-blowing 60’s. The story of the romance between two young Manhattanites, at a time when New York became the world’s capitol of finance and the arts, captures the evolution of their love in the midst of the radical developments in the social and intellectual shifts th...
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    26,83 €

  • A TOURNAMENT OF A DISTINGUISHED WHITE ORDER
    Gerald F. Sweeney / Gerald FSweeney
    A TOURNAMENT OF A DISTINGUISHED WHITE ORDER follows the complicated love duel between a creative Army private and a sensuous young actress, a pair energized and troubled by a romance set during the Korean War. Jim Mahoney learns how to soldier while Fawn Evans battles for a career on the New York stage during Broadway’s Golden Age. They become adults in the turbulent Fifties th...
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    28,32 €

  • Wizard Ho!
    Gerald F. Sweeney / Gerald FSweeney
    Wizard Ho!, the seventh and last novel in the Columbiad series, follows a merry band of Mahattanites in their search for a Wizard and his sidekick, Ripple, who operate a clandestine radio station that represents the embattled voice of the twentieth century intent on identifying the American soul.An interacial couple, Jim and Columbia Ruth, inspires a parade of dancers, musician...
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    39,03 €

  • Crashing Into Sunrise
    Gerald F. Sweeney / Gerald FSweeney
    Crashing into Sunrise portrays a rowdy youth’s transition from teenage mayhem to the awareness of the larger world around him. It depicts the emotional and intellectual upheaval of a young man of the 1940s surrounded by his adventurous buddies and the girls who shine along his path. This is Jim Mahoney, a reckless teenager with an unfinished personality and flawed character who...
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    40,31 €

  • Yo Columbia! How America’s National Symbol Came Down Off Her Pedestal and Found Her Groove
    Gerald F. Sweeney / Gerald FSweeney
    A novel about an older Manhattan magazine executive’s pursuit of a young, brown girl. Together they initiate a quest for Scott Joplin’s lost operas and the identity of a black model from the Gilded Age whose statuary images represent America. ...
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    24,70 €

  • First Lights
    Gerald F. Sweeney / Gerald FSweeney
    How does a frightened child overcome his fear of the world and Depression America? Amazingly the answer comes through sports, sex, help from the Church and a friendly Wizard. Set in the colorful era of the ’39 World’s Fair and WWII. ...
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    40,52 €

  • EAGLES RISING
    Gerald F. Sweeney / Gerald FSweeney
    Eagles Rising chronicles an Irish-American family’s transition from rural Iowa to Chicago where they confront labor, gangster and race wars. The WWI hero, haunted by a youthful anarchist plot, seeks support from his moxie wife and a Wizard.Eagles Rising is one of several stand-alone novels about the lives of an Irish-American family in the 20th century. ...
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    41,75 €