books by Fordham University Press     books:       The Search for Major Plagge: The Nazi Who Saved Jews, Expanded Edition13 reviews Michael Good Fordham University Press, 2006 Deeply Moving Book Of The Triumph Of Good Against Evil There is so much evil when Governments attack their own people as has happened throughout history. The Nazi Government in Germany was especially evil as it attacked many millions of its own people and neighboring peoples. The Nazi Government which was, as is always the case in evil governments, run by a relatively few number of people with awesome power, was on a murderous rampage in Europe. A ...             Lincoln on Democracy6 reviews Fordham University Press, 2004 The best short compilation of Lincoln's speeches & writings This is a book of the highest caliber, making available in a compact and accessible form a set of speeches, letters, and other writings by President Lincoln that rank in importance with the Federalist Papers, speeches by the American founding fathers, and even to some extent philosophical works like Locke's *Second Treatise* and Rousseau's *Social Contract*. I have used this book in a course in ...             Good Old Coney Island4 reviews Edo McCullough Fordham University Press, 2000 Fact is more amazing than fiction! This book was given to me as a gift by a dear friend who knew I had a deep interest in the communities of Gravesend and Coney Island being that I was born in Gravesend. The book is a paperback time machine. It starts at the humble beginnigs of the farming village of Gravesend in the 1600's and its founder Lady Moody and goes on to tell of the history of Coney Island, its land owners and people. ...             Wake the Town & Tell the Peo5 reviews Stolzoff Fordham University Press, 2001 Wonderful book for scholars, students and fans As funky, ferocious, and fun as any big beat coming out a sound system in downtown Kingston on a summer night, this book brings Jamaican dancehall to life with some scintillating prose 'riddims'. A sensitive and vivid writer and a longtime student of all things Jamaican, Stolzoff goes everywhere, knows everyone, and brings it all together in the best book on popular culture that I have read in ...             Central Park: A Photographic Excursion4 reviews James Freund Fordham University Press, 2001 Freund reveals his long time love affair with Central Park by showing us his "park for all seasons". With his spectacular pictures of the monuments and statuary, the animals, the foliage, the rock formations, the whimisical pictures like the Bride and Groom on rollar skates, the shots of the same setting in different lights, the fountains (and my particular favorite, a sudden snow storm interrupting spring), Mr Freund takes us on a magical trip through ...             Latvia in World War II4 reviews Valdis Lumans Fordham University Press, 2006 Latvia in World War II Valdis Lumans' volume on Latvia in World War II provides a thorough and impartial account of that Baltic nation's experiences before, during and immediately after the war, along with an excellent bibliographic essay on the historical literature on that topic. Latvia in World War II, intended as a starting point for the literature that is sure to emerge on Latvia as result of the opening of new ...             The General and His Daughter: The War Time Letters of General James M. Gavin to his Daughter Barbara (World ...9 reviews Barbara Gavin Fauntleroy Fordham University Press, 2007 Letters from a Father to his Daughter. There are a lot of books written about World War II and its commanding generals. There are usually written by historians, or participants writing long after the battles. This book is different. There are the wartime letters written by Jim Gavin to his daughter Barbara. They begin in 1943 when Gavin, then a colonel left the states commander of the 505th PIR or the 82nd. At that time Barbara was ...             AirWAVES! A collection of Radio Editorials from the Golden Apple6 reviews William O'Shaughnessy Fordham University Press, 1999 I've Met Him... And I like Him. William O'Shaughnessy is everything we love about the Irish. He's irreverent, colorful, warm, and kind. This collection of radio editorials would be worth far more than its price if you were to receive only pages 61-64 for your money. (Think of the other 387 excellent pages as coming "at no extra charge.") I was conducting a seminar in Manhattan for the great Joe Riley when I was introduced ...             The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The First Complete, Unexpurgated Text4 reviews Harold Holzer Fordham University Press, 2004 The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: There Were Giants in Those Days The series of debates in Illinois between Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 campaign for the U.S. Senate are one of those legendary political encounters of which everyone has heard but few have gone back and actually read. However, since Lincoln never kept any of his papers prior to winning the Presidency, we do not have autograph copies of his Cooper Union or House Divided ...             Commanding Boston's Irish Ninth: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Patrick R. Guiney Ninth Massachusetts ...5 reviews Christian Samito Fordham University Press, 1997 A must read This compelling book truly transported me to the nineteenth century. Mr. Samito eloquently presented the words of this little known figure in a truly remarkable fashion. The history community is truly in debt to Mr. Samito for uncovering these long lost treasures of the nations past. Any history "Buff" worth their salt needs to read this book. I only hope Mr. Samito continues to produce works ...             Rails Under the Mighty Hudson: The Story of the Hudson Tubes, the Pennsylvania Tunnels, and Manhattan ...4 reviews Brian Cudahy Fordham University Press, 2002 New York and the mainland joined underground I have always enjoyed Brian J. Cudahy's books. "The Malbone Street Wreck" was a sobering look at the disaster that befell the subway line in 1918. And last year's "A Century of Subways: Celebrating 100 Years of New York's Underground Railways" was just the opposite: it was a joyful, admiring look at the making of the subway system in New York, and tracked its progress through the 20th century. I ...             After God: Richard Kearney And the Religious Turn in Continental Philosophy (Perspectives in Continental ...2 reviews John Manoussakis Fordham University Press, 2005 Like Moses, After God Richard Kearney entitled his recent trilogy "Philosophy at the Limit." The recent compilation After God offers a series of profound engagements of Kearney's philosophy and theology, a feast of careful readings and provoking challenges. What is clearest about this eclectic collection is that After God flourishes at the limit of Kearney's philosophy. The primary limit at which this volume dwells ...             From First to Last: The Life of William B. Franklin (The North's Civil War, 19)3 reviews Mark Snell Fordham University Press, 2002 A fascinating cast of Civil War personalities! Franklin's life reads like an action-adventure story! Using previously undiscovered letters and meticulous research of the period, Mark Snell has brought to light a man whose life parallels the development of the United States through the 19th century. As an infant, William B. Franklin had been kissed by Lafayette and given, as were the fledgling United States, the blessing of that great ...             Religion in the Making4 reviews Alfred Whitehead Fordham University Press, 1996 Bare, beautiful spirituality In his other books, and especially in Process and Reality, Whitehead's prose can be so dense as to discourage all but the most determined readers. But Religion in the Making, while occasionally technical, is Whitehead at his simplest and most elegant. Reading this book, written just three years before P&R, will show people who have been exposed to "process theology" that Whitehead's own beliefs ...             Dis-Enclosure: The Deconstruction of Christianity (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)3 reviews Jean-Luc Nancy Fordham University Press, 2008 A revolutionary analysis of theistic religion Written by Jean-Luc Nancy (Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Universite Marc Bloch) and skillfully translated from the original French by the team of Bettina Bergo, Gabriel Malenfant, and Michael B. Smith, Dis-Enclosure: The Deconstruction of Christianity most assuredly lives up to its subtitle as a methodical reverse-engineering of Christianity as a "religion that provided the exit from ...             Railroad Ferries of the Hudson and Stories of a Deck Hand3 reviews Raymond Baxter, Arthur Adams Fordham University Press, 1999 commuting on the railroad ferries co-author raymond baxter's authentic deckhand stories blend well with the historic photos and brief histories of the railroad ferry companies. dispatching of the chambers street boats had been "dumped" somewhere over the years on the gatemen. Once the rush hour ferry Youngstown left two minutes earlier than the scheduled 5:28PM departure. As a result a large number of angry commuters missed ...             A Grand Terrible Dramma: From Gettysburg to Petersburg: The Civil War Letters of Charles Wellington Reed (The ...3 reviews Eric Campbell Fordham University Press, 2000 A "Letters" Book Plus A Lot More The author did a lot of research on the references in Charles Reed's letters. And instead of putting the notes at the end of the book where few read them, the notes are in the margins. It really added to the understanding of what Reed was writing home about. The author also incorporates the drawings from Reed which further adds to the book. Also incorporated are Reed's diary entries. The overall ...             Summers with Lincoln: Looking for the Man in the Monuments4 reviews James A. Percoco Fordham University Press, 2008 Our Lincoln Mania Explained Everywhere you look in the United States there seems to be a statue of Lincoln. From Washington, DC, to Fort Wayne, IN, from Cincinnati, OH, to Newark, NJ, our nation's parks, squares, and town halls are dotted with sculptures of the sixteenth president. Over the course of four summers, teacher and author James Percoco traveled to learn first-hand about our nation's mania to put up stone and ...             Fighting Fascism in Europe: The World War II Letters of an American Veteran of the Spanish Civil War (World ...3 reviews Lawrence Cane, Judy Barrett Litoff, ... Fordham University Press, 2003 A veteran's view This book kept my interest cover to cover. Lawrence Cane is obviously the epitome of a soldier and family man, the essense of the American service man in W.W. 2. From basic training thru the occupation of Germany,he was a man who had not only to fight for his place in the war ,but then to fight the war from the first wave to hit the beach on Normandy,to the liberation of the concentration camps, ...              search for books airwaves, american, bibliographies, christianity, collection, commanding, complete, continental, deconstruction, democracy, dimension, dis-enclosure, editorials, enclosure, excursion, fighting, gettysburg, lincoln-douglas, manhattan, massachusetts, monuments, pennsylvania, perspectives, petersburg, philosophy, photographic, religious, unexpurgated, volunteer, wellington 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: Essays on the Great Depression leave a comment home  impressum - about us