One of the most colourful and controversial figures in American intelligence, Herbert O. Yardley (1889-1958) gave America its best form of information, but his fame rests more on his indiscretions than on his achievements. In this highly readable biography, a premier historian of military intelligence tells Yardley's story and evaluates his impact on the American intelligence community. Yardley established the nation's first codebreaking agency in 1917, and his solutions helped the United States win a major diplomatic victory at the 1921 disarmament conference. But when his unit was closed in 1929 because "gentlemen do not read each other's mail", Yardley wrote a best-selling memoir that introduced - and disclosed - codemaking and codebreaking to the public. David Kahn describes the vicissitudes of Yardley's career, including his work in China and Canada, offers a capsule history of American intelligence up to World War I, and gives a short course in classical codes and ciphers. He debunks the accusations that the publication of Yardley's book caused Japan to change its codes and ciphers and that Yardley traitorously sold his solutions to Japan.

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An alphabetical presentation of brief statistics and pictorial information about each of the United States, as well as U.S. territories and possessions.

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The most beautiful photo book on Marilyn ever published! All iconic images from Avedon to Weegee. Marilyn Monroe posed for nearly every major photographer of her day. This pictorial chronicle features pictures by Richard Avendon, Cecil Beaton, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Elliott Erwitt, Philippe Halsman, Weegee, and thirty other artists: her early days as a model for ads and pinup calendars, film stills that follow her career from a minor actress to a major star, famous master portraits and shots by paparazzi who trailed her every move.
Marilyn emerges in all her moods - young and carefree, sexy and serious, glamorous and girl-next-door. In a fascinating and revealing interview with French writer Georges Belmont Marilyn sets the record straight about her early life, her ambitions, fears, and dreams. Jane Russell, a friend of Marilyn's and her co-star in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, wrote an affectionate foreword.

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Examines the work of Ernest Hemingway as one of the most influential writers in the English speaking world, considering the best of his work as a permanent part of the American mythology, while offering a wide range of critical views.

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Harold Bloom - J.D. Salinger (2008).jpg

J.D. Salinger's powerful fiction and enigmatic persona have captivated readers for more than 50 years. His works include "Nine Stories"; "Raise High the Roof Beam"; "Carpenters"; and "Franny and Zooey", but Salinger's literary reputation rests on his coming-of-age masterpiece, "The Catcher in the Rye". This collection of new essays draws a critical portrait of Salinger's work, complemented by an introductory essay by master scholar Harold Bloom.

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Harold Bloom - Eugene O'Neill (2007).jpg

Eugene O'Neill, one of America's first and leading tragic dramatists, is best known for his plays "The Iceman Cometh", "Desire Under the Elms", and "Long Day's Journey into Night". O'Neill's art for anguish won him four Pulitzer Prizes and the Nobel Prize in Literature, and a place as one of the most important writers in American history. Enhanced by a detailed chronology and bibliography, this newly updated volume in the "Bloom's Modern Critical Views" series is an in-depth exploration into the life and works of a playwright whose searing dramas continue to be a powerful presence on the American stage.

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Edgar Allan Poe is unique for being at once so firmly entrenched within the American literary tradition and yet so questionable in the eyes of the very critics whose attentions strengthened his position. Harold Bloom wonders if Poe's longevity suggests that literary merit and canonical status aren't inseparable.

This title, Edgar Allan Poe, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of Edgar Allan Poe through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on Edgar Allan Poe, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

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Fitzgerald has been referred to as a 20th-century John Keats. This text examines some of his short stories, including "May Day" and "Babylon Revisited."

This title also features a biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald, a user guide, a detailed thematic analysis of each short story, a list of characters in each story, a complete bibliography of Fitzgerald’s works, an index of themes and ideas, and editor’s notes and introduction by Harold Bloom.

This series, Bloom’s Major Short Story Writers, is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School; preeminent literary critic of our time. The world’s most prominent writers of short stories are covered in one series with expert analysis by Bloom and other critics. These titles contain a wealth of information on the writers and short stories that are most commonly read in high schools, colleges, and universities.

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John Steinbeck was a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. He wrote such classics as "The Grapes of Wrath", "Of Mice and Men", The Red Pony", and "East of Eden". This title introduces a collection of critical essays about this author.

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David Gebhard, Tom Martinson - Guide to the Archit ecture of Minnesota (1978).jpg

This book was conceived from its inception to supplement and augment the Bicentennial exhibition, The Art and Architecture of Minnesota, organized and presented by the University Gallery in conjunction with the Minnesota Society of Architects. The exhibition was more than three years in the planning stages, and at every step our desire was to publish something other than an exhibition catalogue — something at once less ephemeral and more comprehensive yet not boring that ubiquitous person, the "interested layman," with heavily erudite prose. In the end we decided to publish A Guide to the Architecture of Minnesota. Long a priority of the Minnesota Society of Architects, such a guide seemed to us to be the sort of publication which would most nearly meet our needs.

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Randall B. Woods - Vietnam and the American Politi cal Tradition, The Politics of Dissent (2003).jpg

Many came to see cold war liberals during the Vietnam War as willing to invoke the democratic ideal, while at the same time tolerating dictatorships in the cause of anticommunism. This volume of essays demonstrates how opposition to the war, the military-industrial complex, and the national security state crystallized in a variety of different and often divergent political traditions. Indeed, for many of the individuals discussed, dissent was a decidedly conservative act in that they felt the war threatened traditional values, mores, and institutions.

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Robert Pozen - Too Big to Save How to Fix the U.S. Financial System (2009).jpg

Industry luminary Robert Pozen offers his insights on the future of U.S. finance

The recent credit crisis and the resulting bailout program are unprecedented events in the financial industry. While it's important to understand what got us here, it's even more important to consider how we should get out. While there is little question that immediate action was required to stabilize the situation, it is now time to look for a long-term plan to reform the United States financial industry.

That is where Bob Pozen comes in. Perhaps more than anyone in the industry, Pozen commands the respect and attention of the public and private sector. In this timely guide, he outlines his vision for the new financial future and provides actionable advice along the way. To Pozen, there are four high-priority problems that must be addressed, and this book puts them in perspective

* Analyzes alternative models for government stakes in banks
* Recommends a new board structure for large financial institutions
* Examines the importance of broader Fed jurisdiction over systemic risks
* Proposes a way to revive the securitization of loans

With Too Big to Save, you'll learn the likely future of the finance industry and understand why changes have to be made.

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George P. Fletcher - Romantics at War, Glory and G uilt in the Age of Terrorism (2002).jpg

America is at war with terrorism. Terrorists must be brought to justice.

We hear these phrases together so often that we rarely pause to reflect on the dramatic differences between the demands of war and the demands of justice, differences so deep that the pursuit of one often comes at the expense of the other. In this book, one of the country's most important legal thinkers brings much-needed clarity to the still unfolding debates about how to pursue war and justice in the age of terrorism. George Fletcher also draws on his rare ability to combine insights from history, philosophy, literature, and law to place these debates in a rich cultural context. He seeks to explain why Americans--for so many years cynical about war--have recently found war so appealing. He finds the answer in a revival of Romanticism, a growing desire in the post-Vietnam era to identify with grand causes and to put nations at the center of ideas about glory and guilt.

Fletcher opens with unsettling questions about the nature of terrorism, war, and justice, showing how dangerously slippery the concepts can be. He argues that those sympathetic to war are heirs to the ideals of Byron, Fichte, and other Romantics in their belief that nations--not just individuals--must uphold honor and be held accountable for crimes. Fletcher writes that ideas about collective glory and guilt are far more plausible and widespread than liberal individualists typically recognize. But as he traces the implications of the Romantic mindset for debates about war crimes, treason, military tribunals, and genocide, he also shows that losing oneself in a grand cause can all too easily lead to moral catastrophe.

A work of extraordinary intellectual power and relevance, the book will change how we think not only about world events, but about the conflicting individualist and collective impulses that tear at all of us.

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Grade 9 Up-A complete research and study guide in one volume. This title includes detailed plot summaries that will be helpful to readers struggling with the books, lists of characters, and excerpts from 25 critical essays on two of Walker's novels-Meridian and The Color Purple-along with a brief biography of the writer and a thematic index. The list of critical voices ranges from Marge Piercy's praise of Walker's writing to Richard Wesley's criticism of the writer's portrayal of black men in The Color Purple to bell hooks's "The Erotic Metaphysic." However, the essays are somewhat limited in that the critics tend to address the subject matter and social concerns of Walker's works more than their artistic merit. Students doing research on one of these books will be glad to have all their work done for them and grateful for the compact package it comes in and libraries will find it chock-full of resources. Serious researchers would be better served by Bloom's Alice Walker (Chelsea, 1990), which includes full-length essays with a little meat on them.
Herman Sutter, Saint Agnes Academy, Houston, TX

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Harold Bloom - Arthur Miller (2007).jpg

Playwright Arthur Miller is best known for his works "A View from the Bridge", the "Crucible", "All My Sons", and the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama "Death of a Salesman". A powerful modern tragedy, "Death of a Salesman" helped usher in a new focus for the American stage - the struggles of the everyday man. Freshly revised and enhanced by a detailed chronology and bibliography, "Arthur Miller, New Edition" chronicles the life and works of a master storyteller whose enduring plays offer a potent critique of the dark side of the American dream.

About the Author
Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of Humanities, Yale University, and Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School

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Harold Bloom - American Women Poets 1650-1950 (200 2).jpg

This volume gathers together what Harold Bloom considers the best criticism on the principal American women poets. Examined is the work of Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Marianne Moore, and Louise Bogan.
This title, American Women Poets (1650-1950), part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of American Women Poets (1650-1950) through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on American Women Poets (1650-1950), a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

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From the modernist explorations of the first half of the 20th century to the diverse styles and practitioners of the 21st century, contemporary American poetry has forged a vital and enduring tradition. This volume explores the genre's recent history and development, as succeeding generations of poets have taken up the American idiom and molded it into their own unique modes of expression. This new edition explores contemporary poetry through a selection of critical essays and also features an introductory essay by esteemed professor Harold Bloom.

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Mark B. Salter - Politics at the Airport (2008).jpg

Politics at the Airport brings together leading scholars to examine how airports both shape and are shaped by current political, social, and economic conditions. Focusing on the ways that airports have become securitized, the essays address a wide range of practices and technologies—from architecture, biometric identification, and CCTV systems to “no-fly lists” and the privatization of border control—now being deployed to frame the social sorting of safe and potentially dangerous travelers.

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