Witness to a century:
by Seldes, George frey50
Published by : Ballentine Books (New York) , 1987 Physical details: 490 p. ISBN:0345331818.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 900 - 999 | 909.82 Sel (Browse shelf) | Available | 57897 |
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| 909.82 Gre Great images of the 20th century : | 909.82 Ken The rise and fall of the great powers: | 909.82 Rob The new world order | 909.82 Sel Witness to a century: | 909.82 Vac The coming dark age | 909.82082 Gre The Great ideas today | 909.82082 Gre The Great ideas today |
Includes index
Introduction -- Part I: The muckraking era -- Part II: Four strange interludes -- Part III: The war to end all wars -- Part IV: Tribune Decade: Berlin to Baghdad -- Part V: Trotsky, Lenin, Lenin's America -- Part VI: Rome, Mussolini, and Fascism -- Part VII: Damascus and Mexico via Chicago -- Part VIII: France: Artists and writers -- Part IX: Return to the U.S.A -- Part X: The spanish war - and after -- Part XI: The in fact decade -- Part XII: Through the Iron Curtain -- Part XIII: In our time -- Part XIV: And in conclusion -- Index
Includes material on Leon Trotsky, Isadora Duncan, John Reed, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Vladimir Lenin, William Jennings Bryan, Emma Goldman, George Bernard Shaw, Theodore Roosevelt, J. Edgar Hoover, Tito, Benito Mussolini, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Ralph Nader.