The Centralia tragedy of 1919 Elmer Smith and the Wobblies / por Copeland, Tom

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Macaulay the tragedy of power / por Sullivan, Robert E.

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Kwame Nkrumah vision and tragedy / por Rooney, David

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Degrees Kelvin : a tale of genius, invention, and tragedy / por Lindley, David, 1956-

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Pathway to hell a tragedy of the American Civil War / por Brandt, Dennis W., 1946-

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From the jaws of victory the triumph and tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the farm worker movement / por García, Matt

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Exiled royalties Melville and the life we imagine / por Milder, Robert

Table of Contents: “...Melville and Polynesia -- The broken circle: Melville and (post-)romanticism -- The theory and practice of democratic tragedy (1): Melville's metaphysics of democracy: "Hawthorne and his mosses" -- The theory and practice of democratic tragedy (2): Ishmael's grand erections -- Exiled royalties -- "The ugly Socrates": Melville, Hawthorne, and the varieties of Homoerotic experience -- An arch between two lives: Melville and the Mediterranean, 1856-1857 -- Uncivil wars -- Unworldly yearners: agnostic spirituality in Clarel -- Alms for oblivion....”
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The making of Americans in Paris the autobiographies of Edith Wharton and Gertrude Stein / por Sloboda, Noel

Table of Contents: “...Wharton and Stein : fact and fiction -- Glory in the writing life and glory in writing the life -- Hometown Paris -- Lessons from and for Henry James -- Wartime tragedy and opportunity -- Epilogue....”
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Dead last the public memory of Warren G. Harding's scandalous legacy / por Payne, Phillip G.

Table of Contents: “...Questions asked -- The president's hometown -- Commemorating the tragedy of Warren Harding -- My damned biographers -- The shadow of William Estabrook Chancellor -- He-harlot -- Harding Alley -- Dead last....”
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Karl Polanyi : a life on the left / por Dale, Gareth

Table of Contents: “...Introduction -- In the East-West salon -- Bearing the cross of war -- Triumph and tragedy of Red Vienna -- Challenges and responses -- The ctaclysm and its origins -- Injustices and inhumanities -- The precariousness of existence -- Epilogue: a lost world of socialism....”
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When fate summons : a biography of General Richard Butler, 1743-1791 / por Ward, Harry M.

Table of Contents: “...New frontiers -- Indian agent -- Saratoga -- Monmouth and light infantry -- Stony Point -- Mutiny -- Virginia -- Yorktown -- Mutiny II -- Fort Stanwix Treaty -- Fort McIntosh Treaty -- Fort Finney Treaty -- Superintendent of Indian Affairs -- Fort Harmar treaties -- Road to hell -- Massacre -- Postscript to tragedy....”
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Eugene O'Neill's America desire under democracy / por Diggins, John P.

Table of Contents: “...-- "The merest sham": women and marriage -- Religion and the death of death -- "The Greek dream in tragedy is the noblest ever" -- Waiting for hickey -- The theater as temple....”
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The last titan a life of Theodore Dreiser / por Loving, Jerome, 1941-

Table of Contents: “...Hoosier hard times -- A very bard of a city -- This matter of reporting -- Survival of the fittest -- Editorial days -- The writer -- Sister Carrie -- Down hill and up -- Return of the novelist -- Life after the Titanic -- The genius himself -- Back to the future -- An American tragedy -- Celebrity -- Tragic America -- Facing West -- Selected works of Theodore Dreiser....”
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A journey into Michelangelo's Rome por Nickerson, Angela K., 1973-

Table of Contents: “...Michelangelo: a man of his time -- Florence: Michelangelo and the House of Medici -- Rome: marvels in marble -- San Pietro in Vincoli: the tragedy of the tomb -- Sistine Chapel: the Pope and the painter -- Quirinal Hill: a faithful servant -- Capitoline Hill: a humanist city -- Vatican and beyond: churches of Rome -- Macel de'Corvi: "Death often tugs me."...”
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Letters to Alice birth of the Kleberg-King Ranch dynasty / por Kleberg, Robert Justus, 1853-1932

Table of Contents: “...Prologue, 1853-1883 -- A desert empire -- Princess of the Wild Horse Desert -- A young lawyer establishes himself -- Tragedy strikes -- A friendship deepens -- The love letters, 1884-1887 -- My dear little heart -- My little darling -- My little pet -- My darling little wife -- Epilogue, 1887-2011 -- The children of Robert and Alice -- The dynasty -- The empire continues....”
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Race and remembrance a memoir / por Johnson, Arthur L., 1925-

Table of Contents: “...Early years -- Dear old Morehouse -- Detroit NAACP -- Detroit public schools -- Two tragedies, 1967-1968 -- Wayne State University -- President of Detroit NAACP -- Friendship with Damon -- Death of three sons -- Searching for the good life -- Eulogies -- Joseph Hudson new Detroit letter -- William Patrick new Detroit letter -- A commitment to the NAACP -- "Buy Detroit" campaign -- Third term as Detroit NAACP president -- Rodney King verdict and twelve-point plan....”
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The Robertsons, the Sutherlands, and the making of Texas por Sutherland, Anne H.

Table of Contents: “...Discovering my Texas identity -- Writing as a tradition -- The Robertson papers -- Learning Texas history -- Sterling Clack Robertson, empresario -- The Alabama settlement -- The prayer on the Sabine -- Making a living -- The Comanche, Karankawa, Lipan Apache, and Tonkawa -- Political rumblings in the Alabama settlement -- The Alabama settlement at war -- The Texas revolution as myth and identity ritual -- Aftermath of the war : tragedy and humor -- Getting rid of wildness -- The wild woman of the Navidad -- The civilizing elites : Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson -- The end of slavery -- Remember who you are -- The macaroni road comes to Edna -- The migration to Uvalde -- Getting an education -- Family reunions....”
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Mary P. Follett creating democracy, transforming management / por Tonn, Joan C.

Table of Contents: “.... -- Self-realization and service -- Ward 17 -- Substitutes for the saloon, schools, and suffrage -- Private funds for public purposes -- My beloved centres -- The functions, financing, and control of community centers -- The war years -- The new state -- Not neighborhood groups but an integrative group process -- Too good a joke for the world -- Creative experience -- Professional transition, personal tragedy -- You have been extraordinarily helpful to executives -- I am almost at the same moment happy and unhappy -- Prepared to go or stay with equal graciousness....”
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Cleopatra a sphinx revisited /

Table of Contents: “...Takács -- Love, triumph, tragedy : Cleopatra and Egypt in high Renaissance Rome / Brian Curran -- The amazing afterlife of Cleopatra's love potions / Ingrid D. ...”
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In the eye of the China storm a life between East and West / por Lin, Paul T. K., 1920-2004

Table of Contents: “...PART I 1920-1949: In the Beginning Was Father ; A Budding Scholar and Orator ; China Family / by Eileen Chen Shu Lin ; Two Lives Entwined / by Eileen Chen Shu Lin ; From Academics to Activism -- PART I I 1950-1964: Journey to New China ; Beijing Learnings ; A Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party -- PART I I I 1965-1982: Return to Canada and Cold War Chill ; Bright Beginning and Tragedy ; Cold War Warming ; Passionate Dialogues ; Cultural Revolution Conundrums ; China Opens to the World ; Generations -- PART IV 1982-2004: University of East Asia, Macau ; From Idealism to Idealistic Pragmatism ; An Enigma Reconsidered -- Appendix 1: Paul T.K. ...”
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