Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,95 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Nineteen forties
ISBN : 9780783555065
Traces the events and personalities that shaped the 1940s.
Author : Nick Freeth
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 15,67 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Nineteen forties
ISBN : 9780760733585
"A vivid portrait of an extraordinary decade, capturing the essence of everyday life, from education to entertain; transportation to television; shopping to sports. Featuring - timelines highlight key events in each aspect of life in the '40s; special features offer in-depth insights into forties fashion, fast food, toys, and technology; period photographs and authentic ephemera evoke the atmosphere of the times." --Google Books.
Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,62 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : 9780783555119
Captioned photos and accompanying text describe the United States during the first decade of the twentieth century.
Author : James Gilbert Ryan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 11,43 MB
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317468643
The only available historical dictionary devoted exclusively to the 1940s, this book offers readers a ready-reference portrait of one of the twentieth century's most tumultuous decades. In nearly 600 concise entries, the volume quickly defines a historical figure, institution, or event, and then points readers to three sources that treat the subject in depth. In selecting topics for inclusion, the editors and authors offer a representative slice of life as contemporaneous Americans saw it - with coverage of people; movements; court cases; and economic, social, cultural, political, military, and technological changes. The book focuses chiefly on the United States, but places American lives and events firmly within a global context.
Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 22,60 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780737002010
Examines the politics, suburbia, automobiles, art and entertainment, cold war, television, and sports of the 1950s.
Author : Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 48,95 MB
Release : 2014-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1498503802
The 1940s is a lost decade in horror cinema, undervalued and written out of most horror scholarship. This collection revises, reframes, and deconstructs persistent critical binaries that have been put in place by scholarly discourse to label 1940s horror as somehow inferior to a “classical” period or “canonical” mode of horror in the 1930s, especially as represented by the monster films of Universal Studios. The book's four sections re-evaluate the historical, political, economic, and cultural factors informing 1940s horror cinema to introduce new theoretical frameworks and to open up space for scholarly discussion of 1940s horror genre hybridity, periodization, and aesthetics. Chapters focused on Gothic and Grand Guignol traditions operating in forties horror cinema, 1940s proto-slasher films, the independent horrors of the Poverty Row studios, and critical reevaluations of neglected hybrid films such as The Vampire’s Ghost (1945) and “slippery” auteurs such as Robert Siodmak and Sam Neufield, work to recover a decade of horror that has been framed as having fallen victim to repetition, exhaustion, and decline.
Author : Neal Gabler
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 45,93 MB
Release : 2007-10-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0679757473
The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history: Walt Disney. Walt Disney was a true visionary whose desire for escape, iron determination and obsessive perfectionism transformed animation from a novelty to an art form, first with Mickey Mouse and then with his feature films–most notably Snow White, Fantasia, and Bambi. In his superb biography, Neal Gabler shows us how, over the course of two decades, Disney revolutionized the entertainment industry. In a way that was unprecedented and later widely imitated, he built a synergistic empire that combined film, television, theme parks, music, book publishing, and merchandise. Walt Disney is a revelation of both the work and the man–of both the remarkable accomplishment and the hidden life. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography USA Today Biography of the Year
Author : J. Anthony Lukas
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 37,14 MB
Release : 2012-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 030782375X
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the bestselling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of three families. As Studs Terkel remarked, it's "gripping, indelible...a truth about all large American cities." "An epic of American city life...a story of such hypnotic specificity that we re-experience all the shades of hope and anger, pity and fear that living anywhere in late 20th-century America has inevitably provoked." —Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 35,26 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN :
Chronicles the decade with photographs and accompanying text on John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Woodstock, Vietnam, Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, and Jimi Hendrix.
Author : Ian Falloon
Publisher : Motorbooks
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 28,24 MB
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0760366020
The ultimate reference for Triumph lovers and fans of British motorcycles, The Complete Book of Classic and Modern Triumph Motorcycles 1937-Today collects all of the motorcycles from this iconic brand in a single illustrated volume. In this revised and updated edition, you'll find the all-new Bonneville lineup introduced for the 2016 model year as well as other Triumphs through 2019. Originally formed as a bicycle company in 1885, Triumph produced its first motorcycle in 1902, which was simply a bicycle fitted with a Belgian Minerva engine. From there, the company, in various iterations, went on to build some of the most iconic motorcycles of all time. Written by respected Triumph expert Ian Falloon, this luxurious reference covers all of the major and minor models, with an emphasis on the most exemplary, era-defining motorcycles such as the Thunderbird, Tiger, Trophy, Bonneville, and new machines such as the Speed Triple, Thruxton, and Daytona 675. Detailed technical specifications are offered alongside compelling photography, much of it sourced from Triumph's archives. The Complete Book of Classic and Modern Triumph Motorcycles 1937-Today also features important non-production models and factory racing and speed-record-setting motorcycles that have become integral parts of Triumph's stellar reputation. This is a book no Triumph fan should be without!
