books by Paul M. Levitt     books:       The Weighty Word Book40 reviews Paul M. Levitt, Douglas A. Burger, ... University of New Mexico Press, 2009 Great for Learning This animated book gives children a new way to learn the definitions of words. It was highly recomended to me, and I loved it!             Joe Frisco: Comic, Jazz Dancer, and Railbird Southern Illinois University Press, 1999 This biography of vaudeville comedian Joe Frisco captures the world of show business in its transition from the heyday of vaudeville through film and radio to the early years of television. As Paul M. Levitt tells us, Joe Frisco in his day was so famous for his jazz dance that F. Scott Fitzgerald mentions him when describing one of Gatsby?s parties: "Suddenly one of these gypsies in trembling opal seizes a cocktail out of the air, dumps it ...             Dark Matters: A Novel3 reviews Paul M. Levitt University of New Mexico Press, 2004 Do yourself a favor: read this novel I thoroughly enjoyed this novel. It is funny, fluent, passionate, sad and contemporary. Dark Matters offers a hilarious and poignant look at four very different students attending college in the 1950s. They respond to controversy re: the forced signing of the loyalty oath, learning on a local level about the evils of McCarthyism and repressive politics. Of course, being college students, ...             Vaudeville Humor: The Collected Jokes, Routines, and Skits of Ed Lowry Southern Illinois University, 2006 Vaudeville Humor: The Collected Jokes, Routines, and Skits of Ed Lowry contains vaudeville jokes, skits, and routines from the first three decades of the twentieth century originally compiled by comedian Ed Lowry (1896?1983). Although occasionally found in bits and pieces in anthologies and in some period dramatic comedies, vaudeville humor has never before been available in one collection?performers rarely if ever kept a record of their jokes ...             Bogus U.2 reviews Levitt Publishing, 2007 Read it and laugh Any reader who ever observed an institution become ridiculous, be it university, church, political party or office committee, will laugh out loud at Paul Levitt's humorous story about Bogus U. As a mafia gang member accidentally becomes president of a university and changes the policies for the better, we laugh (knowingly?) at the subterfuge involving a champion football team (if only...) and a ...             Come with Me to Babylon Paul M. Levitt University of New Mexico Press, 2008 In 1910 the Cohen family, in search of the Golden Medina, undertakes a dangerous journey from Russia to the United States, where the new world exposes family secrets, cultural conflicts, the corruption of the American Dream, and love's divides. Traveling in steerage to Ellis Island, the family endures the poverty and dirt of New York City and retreats to a farm in southern New Jersey--to find not the agricultural Eden they were promised, but ...             Vaudeville Humor Paul M. (EDT) Levitt Southern Illinois Univ Pr, 2006             Chin Music: A Novel of the Jazz Age4 reviews Paul M Levitt Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1991 Rip Roaring Times I read this book with great pleasure. The research that makes it so enjoyable is evident. This is not a quick pot boiler; but rather a scholarly, highly amusing and enlightening trip to the not so distant American past. I found a fine companion piece to follow, the biography of Mrs. Warren G. Harding, the Duchess. I'm ever so pleased to have set the scene with Chin Music. I eagerly await ...             Vaudeville Humor Paul M. (EDT) Levitt Southern Illinois Univ Pr, 2006             SAPPHIRE 2007: A Tale of Two Companies IDC, Henry D. Morris, ... IDC Research, 2007 This document is about SAPPHIRE 2007: A Tale of Two Companies              search for books 2007, age, babylon, bogus, book, chin, collected, come, comic, companies, dancer, dark, frisco, humor, jazz, jokes, lowry, matters, music, novel, railbird, routines, sapphire, skits, tale, two, vaudeville, weighty, word books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: A History of Small Business in America we recommend Rip Roaring Times leave a comment home  impressum - about us