A portrait of Charlie Chaplin discusses the life and times of a comedic genius whose role masked a complex, sometimes tragic and turbulent, personal life

Traces Hemingway's life, attempts to depict his complex personality, and analyzes the autobiographical aspects of his fiction

Product Description: Book by Lynn, Kenneth S.

Product Description: In this controversial, wide-ranging, and fearlessly candid book, Kenneth S. Lynn argues that too many of our current commentators on the American past are out of touch with historical reality. His targets range from the currently fashionable but fantastic idea that the Declaration of Independence derives from a communitarian rather than individualistic philosophy to misinterpretations of the lives of Emerson, Walter Lippmann, Hemingway, and Max Perkins...read more

Product Description: From the Book's Introduction - This [book] is a collection of eleven essays by Kenneth S. Lynn published originally between 1957 and 1971. Six of them served as introductions to editions or anthologies, two were reviews, two appeared as articles, and one was a chapter in a commission report...read more

Product Description: The selections in this anthology are drawn (with the exception of Benjamin Franklin) from the nineteenth century, the great age of American humor. The selections in this anthology range from Maine to Georgia, and from New England to Mark Twain’s Southwest; from boisterous frontier jokes to sharp political and social satire...read more