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Oral history interview of Harry S. Parker conducted by Sharon Zane for The Metropolitan Museum of Art Oral History Project.
Author : Harry S. Parker
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Page : 117 pages
File Size : 43,25 MB
Release : 1999
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Oral history interview of Harry S. Parker conducted by Sharon Zane for The Metropolitan Museum of Art Oral History Project.
Author : Harry S. Parker
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Page : 22 pages
File Size : 30,71 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Art, American
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Interview of Harry S. Parker III conducted by Barry Schwartz for the Archives of American Art "Art World in Turmoil" oral history project.
Author : Archives of American Art
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Art
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Author : Teresa Fava Thomas
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 34,3 MB
Release : 2016-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 178308510X
This book examines the careers of 53 area experts in the US State Department’s Middle East bureau during the Cold War. Known as Arabists or Middle East hands, they were very different in background, education, and policy outlook from their predecessors, the Orientalists. A highly competitive selection process and rigorous training shaped them into a small corps of diplomatic professionals with top-notch linguistic and political reporting skills. Case studies shed light on Washington’s perceptions of Israel and the Arab world, as well as how American leaders came to regard (and often disregard) the advice of their own expert advisors. This study focuses on their transformative role in Middle East diplomacy from the Eisenhower through the Ford administrations.
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Page : pages
File Size : 42,81 MB
Release : 2020
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Author : Irene L. Gendzier
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 27,16 MB
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 023152658X
Irene L. Gendzier presents incontrovertible evidence that oil politics played a significant role in the founding of Israel, the policy then adopted by the United States toward Palestinians, and subsequent U.S. involvement in the region. Consulting declassified U.S. government sources, as well as papers in the H.S. Truman Library, she uncovers little-known features of U.S. involvement in the region, including significant exchanges in the winter and spring of 1948 between the director of the Oil and Gas Division of the Interior Department and the representative of the Jewish Agency in the United States, months before Israel's independence and recognition by President Truman. Gendzier also shows that U.S. consuls and representatives abroad informed State Department officials, including the Secretary of State and the President, of the deleterious consequences of partition in Palestine. Yet the attempt to reconsider partition and replace it with a UN trusteeship for Palestine failed, jettisoned by Israel's declaration of independence. The results altered the regional balance of power and Washington's calculations of policy toward the new state. Prior to that, Gendzier reveals the U.S. endorsed the repatriation of Palestinian refugees in accord with UNGA Res 194 of Dec. 11, 1948, in addition to the resolution of territorial claims, the definition of boundaries, and the internationalization of Jerusalem. But U.S. interests in the Middle East, notably the protection of American oil interests, led U.S. officials to rethink Israel's military potential as a strategic ally. Washington then deferred to Israel with respect to the repatriation of Palestinian refugees, the question of boundaries, and the fate of Jerusalem—issues that U.S. officials have come to realize are central to the 1948 conflict and its aftermath.
Author : J. Robert Moskin
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 945 pages
File Size : 34,65 MB
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 125003745X
A "look at the unsung men and women of the U.S. Foreign Service whose dedication and sacrifices have been a crucial part of our history for over two centuries. Fifteen years in the making, veteran journalist and historian Moskin has traveled the globe conducting hundreds of interviews both in and out of the State Department to look behind the scenes at America's 'militiamen of diplomacy'"--
Author : Gail Crowther
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 26,14 MB
Release : 2024-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1982185791
An expansive and illuminating study of legendary writer Dorothy Parker’s life and legacy in Hollywood from the author of the “fascinating” (Town & Country) Three Martini Afternoons at the Ritz. The glamorous extravagances and devasting lows of her time in Hollywood are revealed as never before in this fresh new biography of Dorothy Parker—from leaving New York City to work on numerous classic screenplays such as the 1937 A Star Is Born to the devastation of alcoholism, a miscarriage, and her husband’s suicide. Parker’s involvement with anti-fascist and anti-racist groups, which led to her ultimate blacklisting, and her early work in the civil rights movement that inspired her to leave her entire estate to the NAACP are also explored as never before. Just as she did with her “deliriously fast-paced and erudite” (Library Journal) dual biography of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath, Gail Crowther brings Parker back to life on the page in all her wit, grit, and brilliance.
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Page : pages
File Size : 42,68 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Blue collar workers
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Topics discussed include: rural life, sharecropping, working in the box factory, childhood stories, Rabbit Foot Minstrels, growing and smoking tobacco, and his baptism.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,46 MB
Release : 1995
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Zusammenfassung: Audiovisual testimony of a Holocaust survivor. Includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences