Presents portraits and brief profiles of people who live and work in the Adirondacks

Adirondack Faces (Adirondack Museum Books)

Arts & Photography

Gilborn, The Blueline Anthology Alice Wolf

Photography & Video

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Regarded by his contemporaries as one of television's premier comedy creators, Nat Hiken was the driving creative force behind the classic 1950s and 1960s series Sgt. Bilko and the hilarious Car 54, Where Are You? King of the Half Hour, the first biography of Hiken, draws extensively on exclusive first-hand interviews with some of the well-known TV personalities who worked with him, such as Carol Burnett, Fred Gwynne, Alan King, Al Lewis, and Herbert Ross. The book focuses on Hiken's immense talent and remarkable career, from his early days in radio as Fred Allen's head writer to his multiple Emmy-winning years as writer-producer-director on television. In addition to re-establishing Hiken's place in broadcast history, biographer, David Everitt places him in the larger story of early New York broadcasting. Hiken's career paralleled the rise and fall of television's Golden Age. He embodied the era's best qualities--craftsmanship, a commitment to excellence and a distinctive, uproariously funny and quirky sense of humor. At the same time, his uncompromising independence prevented him from surviving the changes in the industry that brought the Golden Age to an end in the 1960s. His experiences bring a fresh and until now unknown perspective to the medium's most extraordinary period.

King of the Half Hour: Nat Hiken and the Golden Age of TV Comedy

Zion City, Illinois: Twentieth-Century Utopia (Utopianism and Communitarianism)

Aharon Appelfeld is one of the foremost authors in Israel today. Before he published his novel Badenheim 1939, Appelfeld wrote a short story under the same title that represents the kernal of his brilliant, pre-Holocaust allegory. This pamphlet contains Betsy Rosenberg's revised translation of the short story Badenheim 1939. It will be of great interest to all scholars and students of Hebrew fiction.

Badenheim 1939 (The B.G. Rudolph Lectures in Judaic Studies)

Literature & Fiction

APPELFELD, AHARON

Literary

The American Dream: A Cultural History

There is no better way to understand America than by understanding the cultural history of the American Dream. Rather than just a powerful philosophy or ideology, the Dream is thoroughly woven into the fabric of everyday life, playing a vital role in who we are, what we do, and why we do it. No other idea or mythology has as much influence on our individual and collective lives. Tracing the history of the phrase in popular culture, Samuel gives readers a field guide to the evolution of our national identity over the last eighty years. Samuel tells the story chronologically, revealing that there have been six major eras of the mythology since the phrase was coined in 1931. Relying mainly on period magazines and newspapers as his primary source material, the author demonstrates that journalists serving on the front lines of the scene represent our most valuable resource to recover unfiltered stories of the Dream. The problem, however, is that it does not exist, the Dream is just that, a product of our imagination. That it is not real ultimately turns out to be the most significant finding about the Ameri­can Drea, and what makes the story most compelling.

History

Lawrence R. Samuel

Americas

The Desert: Or, the Life and Adventures of Jubair Wali al-Mammi (Middle East Literature In Translation)

MEMMI, ALBERT

Graves of Upstate New York: A Guide to 100 Notable Resting Places, Second Edition (New York State Series)

D'Imperio, Chuck

Origins of the Iroquois League: Narratives, Symbols, and Archaeology (The Iroquois and Their Neighbors)

Wonderley, Anthony

Sempowski, Martha L.

Unrest: 23 New and 45 Present Past Poems

Fragos, Emily

Poetry

Greg Miller's latest volume of poetry, Now and Then Here and Now, combines everyday Kentucky with English churchmen, and avant-garde French poets. In a collection that is both personal and political, Miller offers quietly meditative lyrics that ponder the human spirit's diabolical and divine tendencies. "Down on the Farm" Poetry now? They sneer at history: bean counters, syllable dribblers, the hacks!-- belles-lettristic meretricious schlock! True enough. Each cow finds its manger-trough to feed at during the morning milking hour, the slats locked to pin narrow necks, the milk slurped and clocked to cool in bulk tanks. They know what matters, and the future's theirs. Their juniors may well scratch their itchy ears, but poetry? Hauled bawling in trailer trucks, to market, tender formula-fed veal? For fame, Big bucks? This poetry biz sucks.

Now and Then Here and Now: New and Selected Poems

MILLER, GREG

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