A behind-the-scenes look at the recently desperately fought strike at the Daily News offers a balanced chronicle of the dramatic battle, full of colorful characters, with critical implications for the future of unions in this country. 20,000 first printing.

Strike: The Daily News War and the Future of American Labor

Vigilante, Richard

Business & Money

Simon&Schuster

What happens when the people running America's financial institutions believe that human judgment is passe? When they abdicate decision-making to an algorithm? The crash of 2008 was driven by a financial establishment, dominant in both Wall Street and Washington, that betrayed the fundamental principle of Capitalism: that all wealth springs from the minds of men. The bureaucrats of capital sought refuge in rules and systems as substitutes for thought, ultimately creating a machinery of disaster they could neither understand nor control.

Panic: The Betrayal of Capitalism by Wall Street and Washington

Redleaf, Andrew

Economics

Richard Vigilante

A Night at Gatsby's is an invitation to attend one of Jay Gatsby's fabulous Jazz Age parties and learn his story by listening to the characters' conversations over six scenes. All dialogue is taken directly from the novel--no first-person or other narrative content from the novel is used. All dialogue spoken and all characters portrayed in this play were selected as being appropriate to take place at the single location of Gatsby's mansion. The play follows the novel's chronology from the initial rumors and lies about Gatsby, through his reunion with Daisy and confrontation with Tom, and ends with Gatsby's death and lonely farewell. Except for the concluding scene 6, all action unfolds over one night from early evening to just before the following sunrise.\nThe Great Gatsby is required reading in over half of the 31,000 U.S. high schools, with 2 million high school students in 80,000 English classes studying the novel annually. As an educational resource, A Night at Gatsby's may be used as a traditional stage presentation, a classroom teaching tool and a student study guide.\nStage Presentation. This one-act 40-minute play has fifteen speaking parts (8 male, 7 female.) But by taking place at one of Gatsby's lavish parties, it presents many additional performance opportunities for student musicians, dancers and actors, and may be easily expanded to an hour or more.\nTeaching Tool. Teachers are always looking for ways to engage students in required subject matter. A Night at Gatsby's may be used for in-class dramatic readings, followed by discussions on how the dialogue supports the novel's larger narrative and story line. During a typical 2-week Gatsby lesson plan, for example, half the class might dramatize scenes 1-3 during the first week and the other half might dramatize scenes 4-6 during week 2.\nStudy Guide. Tens of thousands of students annually purchase Gatsby study guides. Gatsby teachers have long questioned the efficacy of 90-page study guides for a 180-page novel. Many teachers might instead encourage students to read a 25-page play that tells the story in Fitzgerald's actual dialogue as better preparation for the novel.

A Night at Gatsby's

Literature & Fiction

Classics

BookBaby

A Night at Gatsby's is a dramatic experiment, a play of constraints. It is constrained by Place, Time, Cast, and Language. Readers and viewers of this play are guests at one of Gatsby's parties. As such, they are present at his mansion (Place) for just one night (Time) and as nonspeaking participants they hear or overhear the talk of other guests. All guests portrayed in the play are those likely to be at a Gatsby party (Cast.) And all the play's guests only speak the novel's colloquial dialogue, not its lyrical narration (Language.) The novelette section in this book restores the relevant surrounding narration for all the play's dialogue-exactly as it appears in the novel. It also restores the omniscient narrator-character role of Nick Carraway in the novel, providing readers with an interesting contrast to his character-only role in the play. Nick's narration in the novelette may also provide actors with cues from the novel's text that suggest stage direction, tone and emotion for performing the play's dialogue. The Great Gatsby is required reading in over half of America's 31,000 high schools and 4,300 colleges and universities. In the high schools alone, 2 million students in 80,000 English classes study the novel annually. As an educational resource, A Night at Gatsby's may be used as a traditional stage presentation, a classroom teaching tool and a student study guide. Stage Presentation. This one-act 40-minute play has fifteen speaking parts (8 male, 7 female.) But by taking place at one of Gatsby's lavish parties, it presents many additional performance opportunities for student musicians, dancers and actors, and may easily be expanded to an hour or more. Teaching Tool. Instructors are always looking for ways to engage students in required subject matter. A Night at Gatsby's may be used for in-class dramatic readings, followed by discussions on how the dialogue supports the novel's larger narrative and story line. During a typical Gatsby lesson sequence, for example, half the class might dramatize scenes 1-3 and the other half might dramatize scenes 4-6. Study Guide. Tens of thousands of students annually purchase The Great Gatsby study guides. Gatsby instructors have long questioned the efficacy of 90-page study guides for a 180-page novel. Students might instead be encouraged to read a 30-page play that tells key aspects of the story in Fitzgerald's actual dialogue as better preparation for the novel.

Literary

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Strike: The Daily News War and the Future of American Labor

Panic: The Betrayal of Capitalism by Wall Street and Washington

A Night at Gatsby's

A Night at Gatsby's