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Writings of the children of immigrants. Includes works by Joel Chandler Harris, David Belasco, Josiah Royce, Louis Sullivan, Louis D. Brandeis, Thorstein Veblen, Finley Peter Dunne, Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Fiorello La Guardia, Arther M. Schlesinger, Heywood Broun, Archibald MacLeish, Reinhold Niebuhr, Walter Reuther, William Saroyan, Nelson Algren, Peter De Vries, John Fante, and Delmore Schwartz, among others.

A collection of humorous essays, accompanied by the author's own bizarre drawings, presenting Thurber's unremitting retort to the multitude of "self-help" books which were widespread in the 1930s and whose successors are still with us today.

Appeared originally in the Literary supplement of the Times, 1946-49.

Narrated by Lovett, a disabled World War II veteran, about intrigues surrounding McLeod, one of his Brooklyn boarding house neighbors, who is a former communist in this Cold War era setting, and his fellow boarders, one of whom is tailing McLeod.

With Mussolini 's Italy, R.J.B. Bosworth—the foremost scholar on the subject writing in English—vividly brings to life the period in which Italians participated in one of the twentieth century's most notorious political experiments. Il Duce's Fascists were the original totalitarians, espousing a cult of violence and obedience that inspired many other dictatorships, Hitler's first among them. But as Bosworth reveals, many Italians resisted its ideology, finding ways, ingenious and varied, to keep Fascism from taking hold as deeply as it did in Germany. A sweeping chronicle of struggle in terrible times, this is the definitive account of Italy's darkest hour.

Contents:- pt. 1 The dying god. pt. 2 The American Judas.-pt. 3 Altar smoke.

After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens--as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me"). They were greeted by a new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item. Delivering the brilliant comic musings that are a Bryson hallmark, I'm a Stranger Here Myself recounts his sometimes disconcerting reunion with the land of his birth. The result is a book filled with hysterical scenes of one man's attempt to reacquaint himself with his own country, but it is also an extended if at times bemused love letter to the homeland he has returned to after twenty years away.From the Trade Paperback edition.