Product Description: A man of many film firsts, James Stuart Blackton promoted motion pictures as a mass commercial medium by creating the first true movie studio, adopting the star system, pioneering film animation, and publishing Motion Picture Magazine, one of the first film periodicals...read more

Product Description: For many of his theater contemporaries, Lee J. Cobb (1911–1976) was the greatest actor of his generation. In Hollywood he became the definitive embodiment of gangsters, psychiatrists, and roaring lunatics. From 1939 until his death, Cobb contributed riveting performances to a number of films, including Boomerang, On the Waterfront, The Brothers Karamazov, 12 Angry Men, and The Exorcist...read more

Product Description: The Man Who Hated History is a suspense novel that borrows from both whodunnit and psychological mystery genres to fashion a political whowuzitdunto. French police inspector Robert Frenaud, as meticulous about his image of middle-class respectability as he is about his professional investigations, is intrigued when academic firebrand Mario Salerno shows up in his office inquiring about the recent suicide of an American painter...read more

Product Description: Historic Maps and Views of Boston contains twenty-four historic maps and views of Boston and its environs?dating from the 1600s through the present?ready for framing in a custom format or in a standard 11? x 14? frame. This stunning and fascinating selection of images from The Granger Collection includes the first surviving map of Boston (and also the first to be printed in America), an engraving by Paul Revere of the British landing in 1768, a bird?s-eye view of the City, color photographs of the swan boats in the Public Garden, and stunning oil paintings of Boston Harbor and Columbus Avenue...read more

Product Description: Without Ray Arcel (1899-1994), the 20th century world of boxing would have been markedly different. The credibility of it as a sport would have been greatly lessened. Arcel's prominence is all the more interesting because he made his mark not as a fighter, promoter, or manager, but as a trainer...read more

Product Description: 2008 Association of American University Presses Award for Jacket DesignThe Art of Ill Will is a comprehensive history of American political cartooning, featuring over two hundred illustrations. From the colonial period to contemporary cartoonists like Pat Oliphant and Jimmy Margulies, Donald Dewey highlights these artists uncanny ability to encapsulate the essence of a situation and to steer the public mood with a single drawing and caption...read more

Presents a history of each Major League Baseball franchise since 1871.

The shady side of a baseball legend is highlighted here, with details about Hal Chase's scandalous dealings with criminals and his tarnished image before the Black Sox scandal of 1919 highlighted the dirty side of the game and prompted reforms.

The author of The Biographical History of Baseball and The Ball Clubs offers readers a fascinating history of baseball from the bleachers, focusing on the wealthy people who made the game a national sport and the fans who made it the “American pastime.” Original.

Features profiles of more than 1,500 players, managers, owners, front office executives, writers, and fans, and includes a Hall of Famers listing, little-known facts, and information on the women who played significant roles (view table of contents)

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Product Description: In this penetrating and riveting biography of one of Hollywood's most beloved screen icons, Donald Dewey probes beneath Jimmy Stewart, the conservative image and ideal, to reveal James Stewart, the actor and the man. Through hundreds of interviews and in-depth analysis of his seventy-five films, the author assesses how the Hollywood man-about-town of the 1930's and 40's - Stewart's lovers included Ginger Rogers, Olivia de Havilland and Marlene Dietrich - became the epitome of American family values who remained married for forty-five years; and how the studio-bred, effervescent star of It's a Wonderful Life developed into the brilliant actor whose performances in films such as Vertigo and Shenandoah exposed a vulnerability unseen in his personal relationships...read more

A revealing portrait of screen legend James Stewart provides a close-up look at the actor's long-time career in film, his military service during World War II, and his personal life, based on nearly two hundred interviews with friends, colleagues, fellow airmen, and others.

Gathers imaginary teams based on shared poor or great performances, career similarities, and personal characteristics

Product Description: An illustrated volume covering all aspects of bear behaviour, with recent information on recent scientific research.

Lively detailed accounts of every baseball franchise, past and present, are organized alphabetically, illustrated with rare photographs, and feature information on the most important and dramatic moments in each franchise's history.

Portrays the life and film and stage career of the versatile Italian actor

Using little-known trivia, the authors create teams of players with such common traits as members who all lost batting crowns by less than a point, youngest regulars, and regulars who only appeared in the major league for one season

As Manuel Torres' trial for attempted burglary approaches, Torres plans his escape, a juror views the trial in relation to his uneventful life, a courthouse guard awaits the trial with bitterness, and an elevator operator anticipates the violence the trial will bring

Product Description: This book examines economic analysis relevant to monopoly policy and traces the growth of monopoly policy in the U.S. from its common-law origins to the present as it relates to cartels, market tactics, oligopoly, and labor unions.