LIBROS DEL AUTOR: michael s sherry

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  • The Punitive Turn in American Life
    Michael S. Sherry
    In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson insisted that “the policeman is the frontline soldier in our war against crime,” and police forces, arms makers, policy makers, and crime experts heeded this call to arms, bringing weapons and practices from the arena of war back home. The Punitive Turn in American Life offers a political and cultural history of the ways in which punishment and...
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    37,90 €

  • Gay Artists in Modern American Culture
    Michael S. Sherry / Michael SSherry
    Today it is widely recognized that gay men played a prominent role in defining the culture of mid-twentieth-century America, with such icons as Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Montgomery Clift, and Rock Hudson defining much of what seemed distinctly “American” on the stage and screen. Even though few gay artists were “out,” their sexuality caused...
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    54,35 €

  • The Rise of American Air Power
    Michael S. Sherry
    This prizewinning book is the first in-depth history of American strategic bombing. Michael S. Sherry explores the growing appeal of air power in America before World War II, the ideas, techniques, personalities, and organizations that guided air attacks during the war, and the devastating effects of American and British 'conventional' bombing. He also traces the origins of t...
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    81,38 €