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  • Between Author and Editor
    Thomas Fensch
    Was there ever a Golden age in American Book Publishing? We suggest it was from the 1930s through World War Two into the 1950s. Notable author-editor relationships during those years were: Cass Canfield and Edna St. Vincent Millay; Maxwell Perkins at Scribner’s and Ring Lardner, Sherwood Anderson, Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald; ...
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    29,23 €

  • Anne & Emmett
    Thomas Fensch
    Two teenagers, living worlds apart . . .A Jewish girl, with her parents, hidingfrom the Nazis in Amsterdam. . .A Black boy, living outside Chicago . . .The girl, studiously writing a diary, weekafter week, month after month, which she kept secret,even from her parents. . .The Black boy, wanting to visit distant relatives in Mississippi. . .How the girl and her family were final...
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    28,11 €

  • Masters of Despair
    Thomas Fensch
    Masters of Despair analyzes one hundred years of dystopian fiction from: We, 1924; Brave New World, 1943; Darkness at Noon, 1932; Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949; Fahrenheit 451, 1953; The Man in the High Castle, 1962, The Handmaid’s Tale, 1986. The Road, 2006 and others. ...
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    36,18 €

  • Subverting Justice
    Thomas Fensch
    Late in his administration Donald Trump attempted to subvert the Department of Justice (DOJ) and bend it to his will by replacing top DOJ officials with his own cohorts and cronies. He attempted in at least nine meetings to undermine the DOJ and results of the 2020 election.Finally in a lengthy Oval Office meeting, three top DOJ officials threatened to resign, as did ...
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    42,30 €

  • Chronicles from past Plague years
    Thomas Fensch
    This book begins with the Bubonic Plague that hit London in 1665-1666 that Daniel Defoe described in Journal of a Plague Year, written so many years after the actual event.The Spanish Flu of 1918-1919 has been described by a variety of writers including Katherine Anne Porter and Thomas Wolfe.More recently AIDS, Ebola and Covid-19 have been covered, as journalists would say, b...
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    50,03 €

  • Conversations with James Thurber
    Thomas Fensch
    In Conversations with James Thurber, this remarkable man, who has been called America’s twentieth-century Mark Twain , and who was one of the great talkers of his time, expresses his opinions on just about everything and recounts stories and anecdotes about his life which provided the basis of much of his humor. In this captivating anthology of interviews with a great...
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    35,99 €

  • Conversations with John Steinbeck
    Thomas Fensch
    This collection includes all public interviews John Steinbeck gave throughout his career, from the earliest in 1935, to his last in 1972. Steinbeck’s life, in retrospect, can been seen in three phases: his California years; the war years of the 1940s and the years after the Second World War. In this collection we can see Steinbeck working through projects; enduring fame and...
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    37,13 €

  • The Books That Haunt Us
    Thomas Fensch
    All readers have favorites from their personal history; 'The Books That Haunt Us' is an analysis of 18 of the author’s favorite books beginning with Steinbeck’s 'Tortilla Flat,' 1935 up through 'The Tattooist of Auschwitz,' 2018. Other titles include: 'It Can’t Happen Here,'  1935;  'Address Uknown,' 1938; 'Darkness at Noon' 1940; 'Hiroshima,' 1946; 'If This is a Man,' 1947;  '...
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    19,46 €

  • The Books That Haunt Us
    Thomas Fensch
    Those who are regular readers  -- or  those who are addicted  to books -- may have their own favorite titles from years or decades past and they often go back to re-read  their favorites. George Orwell said that there was never a year went by  that he didn't re-read parts of Gulliver's Travels.Echoes of Gulliver's Travels may appear in Orwell's Animal Farm, publ...
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    35,12 €

  • Life, Love, Losses and Dogs
    Thomas Fensch
    This is a short classic autography from a gifted writer — the dog he had as a child; his marriage, the dogs he and his wife had together, and the sudden death of his wife; his second marriage and the long slow death of his second wife from cancer. The dogs they had together and the dogs  he had as companions after the deaths of his wives, eight and one-years apart. ...
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    20,72 €

  • Inside Nixon's Enemies List
    Thomas Fensch
    During the Nixon administration, lists were drawn up with names of people thought to be liberal and anti-Nixon; the list was orighinally to be 20 names-- politicans  and entertainers, but eventually grew to be well over 700 names, on two lists. The Nixon administration  wanted the Internel Revenue Service to audit their tax data and harass them; the I.R.S. refused to do so and ...
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    31,62 €

  • How They Survived and Why We Lost
    Thomas Fensch
    The Vietnam war began for the  United States  in 1954; by 1966, the Central Intelligence Agency undertook a major analysis and concluded: We cannot win in Vietnam. Their analysis was kept secret for 40 years and not released --  with redactions --  until  2006. A second version --  with additional  redactions --  was released in 2016. Their analysis was a tragic and accurate pr...
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    32,25 €

  • Legal Aspects of Impeachment
    Thomas Fensch
    During the Nixon administration impeachment  process,  in August, 1974, the U.S. Department of Justice deemed it necessary to have -- for its own use -- a  document outlining the historial and legal espects of impeachment; thus this document. Impeachment is a seldom-visited aspect of  American political life;  encountered only twice in the past, during the administrations of An...
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    32,09 €

  • Behind Islands in the Stream
    Thomas Fensch
    Ernest Hemingway lived in Cuba for 20 years--1940-1960. After the Spanish Civil War, thousands of Spanish Falange (Spanish fascists) immigrated to Cuba. They were thought to be a threat to Cuba and to the U.S. With the blessing of, and financing by,   the American Embassy in Havava, Hemingway recuited a ragtag band to spy on the Falange. He called them the 'crook factory.' The ...
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    28,05 €

  • Orwell in America
    Thomas Fensch
    George Orwell never came to America; he published five books before fighting in the  Spanish Civll War against Franco. Shot in the neck by a sniper, he came within a fraction of an inch of dying on the spot. Returning to England he published Homage to Catalonia, his experiences in Spain;  then Animal Farm, the Russian Revolution in fable form, then 1984, his masterpiece, while ...
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    25,54 €

  • Orwell in America
    Thomas Fensch
    George Orwell never came to America; he published five books before fighting Franco's forces in the Spanish Civil War. Shot in the neck by a sniper, he came within a fraction of an inch of dying on the spot. His book Homage to Catalonia, neglected during his lifetime, was eventually recognized as one of the great books about The Spanish Civol; War. He returned  to his nativ...
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    35,65 €

  • Foreshadowing Trump
    Thomas Fensch
    Foreshadowing: in books and film, a hint—sometimes ominous—of events to comeForeshadowing Trump examines four novels and one short shory that pre-date—that foreshadow—Trump:Herman Melville's last novel, The Confidence-man: His Masquerade, 1857, which one recent critic called 'the Art of the Scam'’ Mark Twain's short story, 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,' a story of...
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    20,55 €

  • Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr seuss
    Thomas Fensch
    'Calling all Dr. Seuss fans -- this one's for you.' -- Booklist. 'An enjoyable journey through the seemingly simple avenues of Seussdom.' -- School Library Journal. 'For those who love -- or hate - -green eggs and ham, and anyone else.' -- Ohioana Quarterly. Essays on the Writings and Life of Theodor Geisel. Children and adults alike remember Dr. Seuss...
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    26,63 €

  • War Diaries from Inside Hitler's Headquarters
    Thomas Fensch
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  • War Diaries from Inside Hitler's Headquarters
    Thomas Fensch
    German historian Helmuth Greiner served as Custodian of the War Diary in Hitler's Headquarters August 1939 until April, 1943, when he was dismissed, apparently for not being sufficiently pro-Nazi. His diary entries were ordered destroyed but reconstructed between 1946-1949. Greiner's diary entries from 1942-1943 reveal: major decisions by Hitler; movements by vast Nazi W...
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    37,63 €

  • The Sordid Hypocrisy of To Protect And To Serve
    Thomas C Fensch
    'The Sordid Hypocrisy of To Protect and To Serve' ... ...is a savage indictment of the worst police practices in America. The Los Angeles Police adopted the motto 'To Protect and To Serve' in 1955. In 1991 the videotape beating of Rodney King horrified the nation and tarnished -- perhaps forever -- the LAPD's reputation. Since then Albuquerque, New Mexico police have...
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    24,84 €

  • Oskar Schindler and His List
    Thomas Fensch
    Over thirty years before Thomas Keneally wrote the book 'Schindler's List,' journalist Herbert Steinhouse interviewed Oskar Schindler. That 1949 interview, and Steinhouse's subsequent magazine article, plus an extensive interview with Steinhouse, opens this collection of essays, articles and interviews, which illuminate Schindler and the international effect of his story. ...
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    19,91 €

  • Oskar Schindler and His List
    Thomas Fensch
    Well over thirty years before Thomas Keneally wrote the book 'Schindler's List,' journalist Herbert Steinhouse interviewed Oskar Schindler. That 1949 account, plus an interview with Steinhouse, opens this collection of essays, articles and interviews which illuminate Schindler and the international effects of his story. Of the writings about Schindler, this is the only book ...
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    29,52 €

  • At the Dangerous Edge of Social Justice
    Thomas Fensch
    'at the dangerous edge of social justice' is a searing indictment of reprehensible -- and murderous -- racist behavior in America and a tribute to those who had the courage to confront hatred, knowing full well the cost. Chapters include; Emmett Till, murdered in Mississippi at 14, in 1955; Medgar Evers, killed in Mississippi at 37, in 1963; Malcolm X, killed in New York...
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    20,08 €

  • at the dangerous edge of social justice
    Thomas Fensch
    at the dangerous edge of social justice is a book of profiles on courage on facing prejudice in America. Chapters include: Emmett Till, killed at 14 in 1955; Medgar Evers, killed at 37 in 1963; Malcolm X, killed at 39 in 1965; Martin Luther King, Jr., killed at 39, in 1968, James Byrd Jr. killed at 49 in 1998, Trayvon Martin, killed at 17 in 2012. Other chapters in...
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    29,70 €

  • Steinbeck's Bitter Fruit
    Thomas Fensch
    In the 1930s, John Steinbeck published 'In Dubious Battle.' a novel based on union organizing and anti-union sentiment in the rich central valleys of California. He followed that with a series of articles in The San Francisco News about poverty and starvation among the migrants in California. In 1939, he published 'The Grapes of Wrath,' which became an instant America...
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    18,72 €

  • Steinbeck's Bitter Fruit
    Thomas Fensch
    In the 1930s, John Steinbeck published 'In Dubious Battle,' a novel based on union organizing and anti-union sentiment in the rich and fertile central valleys of California. He followed that with a series of articles in The San Francisco News, about poverty and starvation among the migrants in California. In 1939, he published 'The Grapes of Wrath,' which became an i...
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    9,92 €

  • The Man Who Changed His Skin
    Thomas C. Fensch
    'The Man Who Changed His Skin' is the first complete biography of John Howard Griffin. Griffin journeyed from Texas to France alone at 15, to study, in 1935. When the Nazis invaded France, he helped get French, German and Austrian Jews to safety. Before he was 21, he was on Gestapo death lists. He returned to the U.S., joined the Air Force and was stationed on a remote island i...
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    34,47 €

  • The Man Who Changed His Skin
    Thomas C. Fensch
    'The Man Who Changed His Skin' is the first complete biography of John Howard Griffin. Griffin journeyed from Texas to France alone at 15, to study, in 1935. When the Nazis invaded France, he helped get French, German ands Austrian Jews to safety. Before he was 21 he was on Gestapo death lists. He returned to the U.S., joined the Air Force and was stationed for a year on a r...
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    20,22 €

  • The FBI Files on John Steinbeck
    Thomas Fensch
    J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI denied that they had ever investigated novelist John Steinbeck, yet for decades the FBI maintained a file on Steinbeck, which included the recommendation by the U.S. Army Counter-Intelligence Branch (G-2) that Steinbeck was unfit to be commissioned as an officer in the Armed Forces during World War Two. (Despite the evaluations by the California G-2 ...
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    30,20 €


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