Product Description: In Hollywood for the filming of her novel, Giant, author Edna Ferber and her sidekick, Mercedes McCambridge, get involved in investigating the murder of a young actress, said to be James Deans mistress.

Product Description: In 1955 Edna Ferber is basking in the success of her blockbuster novel Giant. Director George Stevens and Warner Brothers Studio are in the final days of filming her Texas oil epic, and Edna looks forward to meeting Rock Hudson, Liz Taylor, and especially young James Dean...read more

Product Description: In Hollywood for the filming of her novel, Giant, author Edna Ferber and her sidekick, Mercedes McCambridge, get involved in investigating the murder of a young actress, said to be James Deans mistress.

Product Description: Annie Trumbull Slosson (1832-1926) was an important short story writer who epitomized the American local color movement that flourished after the Civil War and ended at the beginning of the twentieth century. Along with writers like Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins Freeman and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, she helped establish the popular and critical model of the short story in which location and idiosyncratic characterization identified a particular region of the United States...read more

Product Description: The story of Tunxis Community College is emblematic of the changes seen in higher education in America since the 1960s. Created in 1970, the college is part of the public college system of Connecticut. Its 30-year history is filled with all the successes and pitfalls of any evolving, open-admission institution...read more

Provides insight into the colorful and often turbulent history and culture of a little-known people who brought their rich tapestry of legend, history, literature, art, and music to America