The Rhapsodes : how 1940s critics changed American film culture / by Bordwell, David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the film critic as superstar -- The Rhapsodes -- A newer criticism -- Otis Ferguson : the way of the camera -- James Agee : all there and primed to go off -- Manny Farber : space man -- Parker Tyler : a suave and wary guest -- Afterlives.…”

The scientific and clinical application of elastic resistance /

The Queer South: LGBTQ writers on the American South /

Hemingway and the natural world /

Table of Contents: “…: Differing narrative perspectives in Hemingway's "Big Two-Hearted river" / Fredrik Chr. Brøgger -- Man cannot live by dry flies alone: fly rods, grasshoppers, and an adaptive catholicity in Hemingway's "Big Two-Hearted river" / David N. …”

Accidental presidents : eight men who changed America / by Cohen, Jared, 1981-

Democratic moments : reading democratic texts /

Table of Contents: “…O'Kane -- Max Weber's charismatic democracy / Xavier Márquez -- An alternatice democracy : dissent in Gandhi's great trial of 1922 / Anuradha Veeravalli -- Sun Ya-sen : people's democracy and Chinese democracy / Theresa Man Ling Lee -- Hobson on democracy and the humanized / Colin Tyler -- A new reading on authority and guardianship (wilayah) : Ayatollah Muhammad Mahdi Shamasuddin / Hamid Mavani -- Conclusion / Xavier Márquez.…”

Fall from grace : sex, scandal, and corruption in American politics from 1702 to the present / by Ross, Shelley

Table of Contents: “…Grant -- "Bulldozing" and the "Fire of Lawless Passion": Scandals in the Lives and Times of Rutherford B. Hayes and James A. Garfield -- "Tell the Truth": Scandals in the Life and Times of Grover Cleveland -- "Exposed and Confessed Unchastity": More Scandals in the Gilded Age -- "You Can't Cast the Man as Romeo"" Scandals in the Life and Times of Woodrow Wilson -- "The Great Morality Panic of 1924": Scandals in the Life and Times of Warren G. …”

Robert Frost in context /

Table of Contents: “…Frost and the public performance of poetry Tyler Hoffman; Part VIII. Scientific and Psychiatric Contexts: 36. …”

Media /

Table of Contents: “…Kilpatrick -- Martin Luther King, Jr., media representation of -- Spike Lee -- Vivian Leigh -- Living blues -- Mandingo -- Doug Marlette -- Carson McCullers and film -- Ross McElwee -- Ralph McGill -- Butterfly McQueen -- Mississippi burning -- Jerry Mitchell, Jr. -- Sputnik Monroe -- Willie Morris -- Bill Moyers -- Nashville -- The Nashville Network (TNN or Spike) -- New Orleans Times-Picayune -- Norman Film Studios -- Nothing but a man -- Victor Nuñez -- Flannery O'Connor in film and television -- Oxford American -- Dolly Parton -- Minnie Pearl -- Tyler Perry -- Pinky -- Elvis Presley -- Elvis Presley, dead on film -- Radio free Dixie -- The real McCoys -- Jean Renoir -- Burt Reynolds -- Martin Ritt -- Pat Robertson -- Roots -- Charlie Rose -- John Sayles -- Dinah Shore -- Show boat -- Song of the south -- Southern cultures -- Southern exposure -- Southern living -- Sissy Spacek -- A streetcar named Desire -- Jimmy Swaggart -- Telemundo -- Billy Bob Thornton -- A time to kill -- To kill a mockingbird -- Ted Turner -- King Vidor -- The Waltons -- Way down south -- WDIA -- Ida B. …”

100 greatest American plays / by Hischak, Thomas S.

Table of Contents: “…(1935) by Clifford Odets ; Barbara Frietchie (1899) by Clyde Fitch ; Barefoot in the park (1963) by Neil Simon ; The bat (1920) by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood ; The best man (1960) by Gore Vidal ; Biography (1932) by S. …”

Mobituaries : great lives worth reliving / by Rocca, Mo, Greenberg, Jonathan Daniel, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Scott; George M. Cohan/James Cagney; Eva Perón/Patti LuPone; Marlene Dietrich/Madeline Kahn; Maria von Trapp/Julie Andrews; Jame LaMotta/Robert De Niro; Spartacus/Kirk Douglas) --Before and After: Herbert Hoover {1874-1964} and John Quincy Adams {1767-1848} with the Mount Rushmore of Terrible Presidents: A. …”