Personal Takes
Personal Takes is a series of short books in which noted critics write about the persistent hold particular writers, artists, or cultural phenomena have had on their imaginations. The series is closed to new submissions.
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Exposés and Excess
Muckraking in America, 19 / 2
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812219265
Pub Date: April 2005
Format: Paperback
248 Pages
From robber barons to titanic CEOs, from the labor unrest of the 1880s to the mass layoffs of the 1990s, two American Gilded Ages—one in the early 1900s, another in the final years of the twentieth...
Daphne du Maurier, Haunted Heiress
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812218367
Pub Date: October 2002
Format: Paperback
192 Pages
Auerbach examines the writer of depth and recklessness now largely known only as the author of Rebecca, looking at the way her sharp-edged fiction, with its brutal and often perverse family relationships,...
Musically Speaking
A Life Through Song
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812237467
Pub Date: August 2003
Format: Hardcover
152 Pages
"Music, I have come to realize, is for me a kind of golden thread running through my life. It has helped maintain my connection with the past that otherwise might have been severed by catastrophe and...
The Fugitive in Flight
Faith, Liberalism, and Law in a Classic TV Show
Price: $32.50
ISBN: 9780812242775
Pub Date: November 2010
Format: Hardcover
160 Pages
"In the 1990s when I was watching reruns of The Fugitive on the Arts and Entertainment Network twice a day, I couldn't take my eyes off it. . . . No one in The Fugitive ever relaxes as you watch and...
Faculty Towers
The Academic Novel and Its Discontents
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812220858
Pub Date: August 2009
Format: Paperback
152 Pages
"I have been a character in academic fiction at least twice," Elaine Showalter writes, "once a voluptuous, promiscuous, drug-addicted bohemian, once a prudish, dumpy, judgmental frump. I hope I am not...
Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann
An Eyewitness Account
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812220650
Pub Date: April 2009
Format: Paperback
208 Pages
The trial of Adolf Eichmann began in 1961 under a deceptively simple label, "criminal case 40/61." Hannah Arendt covered the trial for the New Yorker magazine and recorded her observations in Eichmann...
Tropic of Venice
Price: $70.00
ISBN: 9780812239843
Pub Date: February 2007
Format: Hardcover
374 Pages
Named one of the "Big Ten Outstanding Books from University Presses for 2006" by ForeWord magazineFor Margaret Doody, Venice, poised between East and West, earth and sea, sacred and profane, occupies...
When Men Were the Only Models We Had
My Teachers Fadiman, Barzun, Trilling
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812236323
Pub Date: September 2001
Format: Hardcover
168 Pages
"Once upon a time there were three men who exemplified, without knowing it, my ideal in life. All of them became famous as writers, influential thinkers, and public figures. Their names are Clifton...
Exposés and Excess
Muckraking in America, 19 / 2
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812219265
Pub Date: April 2005
Format: Paperback
248 Pages
From robber barons to titanic CEOs, from the labor unrest of the 1880s to the mass layoffs of the 1990s, two American Gilded Ages—one in the early 1900s, another in the final years of the twentieth...
Daphne du Maurier, Haunted Heiress
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812218367
Pub Date: October 2002
Format: Paperback
192 Pages
Auerbach examines the writer of depth and recklessness now largely known only as the author of Rebecca, looking at the way her sharp-edged fiction, with its brutal and often perverse family relationships,...
Musically Speaking
A Life Through Song
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812237467
Pub Date: August 2003
Format: Hardcover
152 Pages
"Music, I have come to realize, is for me a kind of golden thread running through my life. It has helped maintain my connection with the past that otherwise might have been severed by catastrophe and...
The Fugitive in Flight
Faith, Liberalism, and Law in a Classic TV Show
Price: $32.50
ISBN: 9780812242775
Pub Date: November 2010
Format: Hardcover
160 Pages
"In the 1990s when I was watching reruns of The Fugitive on the Arts and Entertainment Network twice a day, I couldn't take my eyes off it. . . . No one in The Fugitive ever relaxes as you watch and...
Faculty Towers
The Academic Novel and Its Discontents
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812220858
Pub Date: August 2009
Format: Paperback
152 Pages
"I have been a character in academic fiction at least twice," Elaine Showalter writes, "once a voluptuous, promiscuous, drug-addicted bohemian, once a prudish, dumpy, judgmental frump. I hope I am not...
Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann
An Eyewitness Account
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812220650
Pub Date: April 2009
Format: Paperback
208 Pages
The trial of Adolf Eichmann began in 1961 under a deceptively simple label, "criminal case 40/61." Hannah Arendt covered the trial for the New Yorker magazine and recorded her observations in Eichmann...
Tropic of Venice
Price: $70.00
ISBN: 9780812239843
Pub Date: February 2007
Format: Hardcover
374 Pages
Named one of the "Big Ten Outstanding Books from University Presses for 2006" by ForeWord magazineFor Margaret Doody, Venice, poised between East and West, earth and sea, sacred and profane, occupies...
When Men Were the Only Models We Had
My Teachers Fadiman, Barzun, Trilling
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812236323
Pub Date: September 2001
Format: Hardcover
168 Pages
"Once upon a time there were three men who exemplified, without knowing it, my ideal in life. All of them became famous as writers, influential thinkers, and public figures. Their names are Clifton...