Before the Deluge begins with Wilhelm II's abdication in 1918 and ends with Hitler's rise to power in 1933 and interweaves Berlin's political, cultural, and social history during that time. Most of what is here has been told before but Friedrich is a skillful narrator whose account of the familiar events is unusually vivid.

Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920's

History

Otto, Friedrich

Europe

Harper Row Publishers

City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s

City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's

Harper&Row

A short and thoroughly accurate history of the Auschwitz concentration camp, this compelling book is authoritative in its factual details, devastating in its emotional impact.

The Kingdom of Auschwitz (Penguin History)

Penguin??Books

Who is crazy? A president who spies on imaginary enemies/ An astronaut who sees God on the Moon. A businessman who rehearses his suicide? (from back cover)

Going crazy: An inquiry into madness in our time

Avon/Books

He was a virtuoso of the piano who inspired an almost religious fervor in his fans, yet he hated performing and left the concert stage forever at the age of 31. He was a tireless advocate of the technology of recording, an artist who looked forward to a time when mere musicians would be rendered obsolete. He was a notorious -- and, some thought, a deliberate -- eccentric, who muffled himself in scarves and gloves, liberally dosed himself with pills, and once sued Steinway & Sons because one of its employees had shaken his hand too roughly. He lived in hermetic solitude and liked to call himself "the last Puritan," but those who watched Glenn Gould play piano saw an eroticism so intense it was almost embarrassing.Drawing on extensive interviews and on archival materials that were previously inaccessible. Otto Friedrich has written a biography of exemplary depth and stylishness. Ranging over Gould's brief but spectacular public career and his prodigious exploits as teacher, author, and lecturer, his public opinions and his intensely private life. Glenn Gould; A Life and Variations does justice to a multifaceted and perverse genius.

Glenn Gould

Biographies & Memoirs

Lime Tree

NOT ex-library. Minor edgewear with small taped tear, remainder mark, tight and clean.

Going Crazy

Simon&Schuster

Clover : The Tragic Love Story of Clover and Henry Adams and Their Brilliant Life in America's Gilded Age

Glenn Gould: A Life And Variations

Arts & Literature

Lester, Orpen Dennys

Lehrbuch der Russischen Literatur

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

BiblioLife

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Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920's

City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's

The Kingdom of Auschwitz (Penguin History)

Going crazy: An inquiry into madness in our time

Glenn Gould

Going Crazy

Clover : The Tragic Love Story of Clover and Henry Adams and Their Brilliant Life in America's Gilded Age

Glenn Gould: A Life And Variations

Lehrbuch der Russischen Literatur

Lehrbuch der Russischen Literatur