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At a time when surveys reveal that Americans know less and less
about our past, Tony Williams provides entertaining and informative
descriptions of 50 of the most important and dramatic events from
the colonial and Revolutionary period-some known and some
forgotten-from the Mayflower Compact to the Annapolis Convention.
Published in association with The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation,
America's Beginnings takes the reader throughout the American
colonies and introduces many leading figures, from John Smith and
John Winthrop to the Founding Fathers. Along the way, Williams
examines the principles that led colonists to come to America and
succeeding generations to become a free and independent nation.
Read individually or from cover to cover, these stories illuminate
the founding principles and heroic struggles that established the
country and shaped the American character.
James Jones played many roles, including short story writer, social
critic, and war novelist. His most famous work, From Here to
Eternity (1951), spent 20 weeks atop the New York Times
bestseller's list, won the National Book Award, was adapted into an
Academy Award-winning film, and was named one of the 100 best
novels of the twentieth century by the Modern Library. Despite this
and the success of his other novels, Some Came Running (1957) and
The Thin Red Line (1962), Jones is widely forgotten today. In James
Jones: The Limits of Eternity, literary scholar Tony J. Williams
examines the significance of Jones's work not only for its nuance
and daring subject matter but also for its widespread popularity.
In his assessment of Jones's catalog, Williams reveals an incisive
novelist who offered groundbreaking interpretations of masculinity,
sexuality, gender, and identity. Williams contends that Jones
should be recognized as far more than just a popular war novelist,
but also as a humanitarian and literary pioneer, particularly in
probing gender and queer issues. A quintessentially American
novelist, Jones was never afraid to look openly at the flaws of his
society, examine how it could adversely affect individual victims,
and tacitly suggest possible alternatives. He recognized the
presence of gays and lesbians in American culture during an overtly
repressive time, which makes his work relevant to many areas of
contemporary criticism. Demonstrating his significant contribution
to contemporary American literature, James Jones: The Limits of
Eternity will be of interest to scholars of war narratives, gender
studies, and literary studies.
Body and Soul explores the work of Robert Aldrich, a producer and
director responsible for several notable films, including The
Flight of the Phoenix, The Dirty Dozen, Too Late the Hero, The
Longest Yard and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Author Tony
Williams examines the relationship of Aldrich's films to the
Cultural Front movement of the 1930s as well as to the blacklist of
the 1950s. He also delineates Aldrich's attempts to follow the
progressive ideals of such mentors as Jean Renoir, Lewis Milestone,
and Charlie Chaplin. From the noir classic Kiss Me Deadly to the
controversial thriller Twilight's Last Gleaming, Body and Soul
focuses on the dilemmas both personal and political that affect
individuals in all of Aldrich's films.
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