One man, and the woman he loves, become caught in a web of international intrigue, love, and betrayal as they attempt to maintain professional integrity amid the struggle for control of the world's information, intelligence, and communications resources

Kings in the Counting House

Mitgang, Herbert

Literature & Fiction

Ballantine Books

Recounts the fifty-year espionage campaign waged by U.S. intelligence agencies against such noted American writers as Hemingway, Steinbeck, Faulkner, and Sandburg, as well as present-day authors

Dangerous Dossiers

History

Americas

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The Man Who Rode the Tiger: The Life of Judge Samuel Seabury and the Story of the Greatest Investigation of City Corruption in This Century

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

A prize-winning book critic for The New York Times offers vivid sketches of the writers he has interviewed in their native elements, from Samuel Beckett to Ralph Ellison, and recounts the stories behind those extraordinary meetings.

Words Still Count With Me: A Chronicle of Literary Conversations

Here is the full story of the surveillance of more than 50 American authors, dramatists, artists, historians and others by the FBI and other government agencies during the last 50 years. Those under surveillance include Hemingway, Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, John Steinbeck, Pearl Buck and Sinclair Lewis. 32 pages of illustrations. Serialized in New Yorker, New York Times Book Review, Village Voice, Atlantic and New Republic.

Random House Value Publishing

Recounts the fifty-year espionage campaign waged by U.S. intelligence agencies against such noted American writers as Hemingway, Steinbeck, Faulkner, and Sandburg, as well as present-day authors

Dangerous Dossiers: Exposing the Secret War Against America's Greatest Authors

The Man Who Rode the Tiger: The Life of Judge Samuel Seabury

Penguin??Books

A biography of the sixteenth President from his early years in Springfield through the Civil War to his assassination in 1865.

The Fiery Trial: A Life of Lincoln

Children's Books

Viking Press

The 1932 battle between corrupt Tammany Hall New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker and then-governor of New York Franklin D. Roosevelt is chronicled exquisitely in this Jazz Age political drama spiced with illegal gambling, speakeasies, actress mistresses, and dangerous criminals.

Once Upon a Time in New York : Jimmy Walker, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Last Great Battle of the Jazz Age

Arts & Photography

Music

Free Press

Herbert Mitgang has spent a quarter of a century studying Lincoln. He wanted to create in this one-man show a Lincoln who was historically accurate, but also one who was human: What had to be avoided was a feeling by the audience that it was watching a play with a lectern at dead-center for high-minded speeches.” At this he succeeds. Mitgang’s Lincoln moves easily from private citizen to public servant to orator speaking lines destined to live forever.
This is a two-act play with the first act taking place in Illinois, where Lincoln was mainly an advocate. The second act is set in Washington, where Lincoln assumed his historical position as liberator: The central theme that emerged,” Mitgang says, was his own evolving stand on slavery that led to the Emancipation Proclamation.” Lincoln promised that if he ever got the chance to hit the institution of slavery, he would hit it hard.
The set and props remain simple. Stage right is for legal and official business; stage left is for relaxing at home. Lincoln delivers his great public speeches from center stage. He comes downstage to address the audience directly. The play works. It has been produced successfully in Washington and New York, on foreign and domestic tours, and was the first Hallmark Hall of Fame production to run on PBS. The authenticity,” as Mitgang notes, derives from the language.”
Mitgang shows many sides of Lincoln: the president making an eloquent moral judgment”With all my heart, I believe that those perpetuating slavery are blowing out the moral lights around us”; the president overruling his cabinet to make a tough military and political decision; and the melancholy man making his load tolerable through humorAnd if I laugh at any mortal thing,” wrote Byron, ’tis that I may not weep.”
Wit and eloquence form the essence of Mister Lincoln. Ancient kings had their court jesters, men like Lear’s fool who broke the tension created by a weighty crown. But most of all, these jesters provided perspective. It was their job to puncture the balloon of pomposity before its light, hot air dragged the ruler from earth to Olympian heights. President Lincoln was his own court jester, as he shows in this sequence describing the opening shots of the Civil War: Washington became an armed camp. War knows no holidays but that is how the Civil War began. Some civilians actually carried picnic lunches from Washington to watch the first battle across the Potomac at a little creek called Bull Run. Our retreat was led by a scared, fast-running Congressman with his coattails flying.”

Mister Lincoln: A Drama in Two Acts

Dramas & Plays

Southern Illinois University Press

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Kings in the Counting House

Dangerous Dossiers

The Man Who Rode the Tiger: The Life of Judge Samuel Seabury and the Story of the Greatest Investigation of City Corruption in This Century

Words Still Count With Me: A Chronicle of Literary Conversations

Dangerous Dossiers

Dangerous Dossiers: Exposing the Secret War Against America's Greatest Authors

The Man Who Rode the Tiger: The Life of Judge Samuel Seabury

The Fiery Trial: A Life of Lincoln

Once Upon a Time in New York : Jimmy Walker, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Last Great Battle of the Jazz Age

Mister Lincoln: A Drama in Two Acts