Takes a behind-the scenes look at the "Addams Family," explores the show's beginning, the characters and actors that brought it to life, and cartoonist Charles Addams, it's creator

Addams Chronicles: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Addams Family

Humor & Entertainment

Cox, Stephen

Television

Perennial

A behind-the-scenes look at television's Addams Family traces the Addams family tree from Aunt Anemia to Uncle Tic and includes cast interviews, never-before-published private photos, plot details for every episode, and more. Reprint.

The Addams Chronicles: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Addams Family

Harpercollins

Based partly on personal interviews, this is the story of the Dalai Lama's prodigious life--of how a lively child from a modest peasant family came to be recognized as the fourteenth reincarnation of the Buddha of Infinite Compassion. The book also portrays a vivid and important civilization based on an exuberant and sophisticated Buddhist tradition.

The Dalai Lama: A Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Levenson, Claude B.

Leaders & Notable People

Oxford University Press

Based partly on personal interviews, this is the story of the Dalai Lama's prodigious life--of how a lively child from a modest peasant family came to be recognized as the fourteenth reincarnation of the Buddha of Infinite Compassion. The book also portrays a vivid and important civilization based on an exuberant and sophisticated Buddhist tradition.

The Dalai Lama: A Biography (Oxford India Paperbacks)

Christianity takes an astonishing variety of forms in America, from churches that cherish traditional modes of worship to evangelical churches and fellowships, Pentecostal churches, social-action churches, megachurches, and apocalyptic churches—congregations ministering to believers of diverse ethnicities, social classes, and sexual orientations. Nor is this diversity a recent phenomenon, despite many Americans' nostalgia for an undeviating "faith of our fathers" in the days of yore. Rather, as Stephen Cox argues in this thought-provoking book, American Christianity is a revolution that is always happening, and always needs to happen. The old-time religion always has to be made new, and that is what Americans have been doing throughout their history.
American Christianity is an engaging book, wide ranging and well informed, in touch with the living reality of America's diverse traditions and with the surprising ways in which they have developed. Radical and unpredictable change, Cox argues, is one of the few dependable features of Christianity in America. He explores how both the Catholic Church and the mainline Protestant churches have evolved in ways that would make them seem alien to their adherents in past centuries. He traces the rise of uniquely American movements, from the Mormons to the Seventh-day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses, and brings to life the vivid personalities—Aimee Semple McPherson, Billy Sunday, and many others—who have taken the gospel to the masses. He sheds new light on such issues as American Christians' intense but constantly changing political involvements, their controversial revisions in the style and substance of worship, and their chronic expectation that God is about to intervene conclusively in human life. Asserting that "a church that doesn't promise new beginnings can never prosper in America," Cox demonstrates that American Christianity must be seen not as a sociological phenomenon but as the ever-changing story of individual people seeking their own connections with God, constantly reinventing their religion, making it more volatile, more colorful, and more fascinating.

American Christianity: The Continuing Revolution (Discovering America)

History

Americas

University of Texas Press

The Big House" is America’s idea of the prisona huge, tough, ostentatiously oppressive pile of rock, bristling with rules and punishments, overwhelming in size and the intent to intimidate. Stephen Cox tells the story of the American prisonits politics, its sex, its violence, its inability to control itselfand its idealization in American popular culture. This book investigates both the popular images of prison and the realities behind them: problems of control and discipline, maintenance and reform, power and sexuality. It conveys an awareness of the limits of human and institutional power, and of the symbolic and iconic qualities the Big House” has attained in America’s understanding of itself.

The Big House: Image and Reality of the American Prison (Icons of America)

Yale University Press

“The Big House" is America’s idea of the prison—a huge, tough, ostentatiously oppressive pile of rock, bristling with rules and punishments, overwhelming in size and the intent to intimidate. Stephen Cox tells the story of the American prison—its politics, its sex, its violence, its inability to control itself—and its idealization in American popular culture. This book investigates both the popular images of prison and the realities behind them: problems of control and discipline, maintenance and reform, power and sexuality. It conveys an awareness of the limits of human and institutional power, and of the symbolic and iconic qualities the “Big House” has attained in America’s understanding of itself.

Say good-bye to city life, fire up the jalopy, and return to the pastoral pastures of Hooterville and the wacky world of Lisa and Oliver Wendell Douglas, where everything makes, er, its own sort of sense. Actually, it doesn't make any sense, and The Hooterville Handbook brings it all to life with: -A foreward by Hank Kimball, your county agent. -Revealing interviews with the men and women responsible for this timeless television treat. -Behind-the-scenes peeks into the farmhouse, the Olivers' bedroom and the private life of Arnold Ziffel, the popular porcine star of the show. -A complete guide to all 170 episodes. Hooterville is still the one place in the world where the grass is always greener, and this delightful book will surely turn anyone who doesn't own it green with envy.

The Hooterville Handbook: A Viewer's Guide To Green Acres

St. Martin's: Griffin

In the blink of an eye, here's everything about "I Dream of Jeannie" Everyone remembers "I Dream of Jeannie," but how much do you really know about Major Nelson, Major Healey, and Jeannie herself? TV historian Stephen Cox and photo archivist Howard Frank uncork all the secrets to this supernatural Sixties sitcom. Included here are: * Rare, outspoken interviews with the cast, actual NASA astronauts, and the show's prolific producer, Sidney Sheldon. * Astounding, never-before-published photos that fully illustrate the scope of this show's legacy and its permanent place in pop culture history. * The complete "Bewitched" vs. "Jeannie" squabble. * Sixteen pages of mystical color images. * Exclusive peeks into Jeannie's bottle Yes, Master, this thoroughly researched and beautifully illustrated book is a dream come true for every fan of Jeannie.

Dreaming of Jeannie: TV's Prime Time in a Bottle

Frank, Howard

Profiles the numerous men and women who played the citizens of Munchkinland, offering their perspectives on the creation of "The Wizard of Oz," the film's stars, and their own lives before and after the film

The Munchkins Remember: "The Wizard of Oz" and Beyond

Plume

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Books by Cox, Stephen

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Addams Chronicles: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Addams Family

The Addams Chronicles: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Addams Family

The Dalai Lama: A Biography

The Dalai Lama: A Biography (Oxford India Paperbacks)

American Christianity: The Continuing Revolution (Discovering America)

The Big House: Image and Reality of the American Prison (Icons of America)

The Big House: Image and Reality of the American Prison (Icons of America)

The Hooterville Handbook: A Viewer's Guide To Green Acres

Dreaming of Jeannie: TV's Prime Time in a Bottle

The Munchkins Remember: "The Wizard of Oz" and Beyond