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Crossing the Expendable Landscape, Graywolf Press, Putnam's Sons, ; Bloomsbury Press, U. Finalist, Book of the Year, Chicago Sun-Times, This is the first full-length study of one of the most tragic figures in 20th-century American literature. Algren, Chicagoan to the core, was a deeply committed, passionate writer Algren, Chicagoan to the core, was a deeply committed, passionate writer whose finest work came out of his identification with America's downtrodden, the losers, whores, gamblers and bums with whom he surrounded himself for much of his life.

A major figure among the leftist proletarian writers of the '30s and '40s, he watched in dismay as America changed to a conformist, timid country where he no longer felt at home; and he ended his life recycling material from his glory days, scrambling after magazine assignments and quarreling over dramatic rights and anthologies.

She writes of him with compassion, understanding and a keen sense of the all-important social context of his writing--and, most important, makes you want to read the best of Algren again, instead of watching the inferior movies made from his work. The decline and death of a valuable native literary movement were encapsulated in Algren's life, and Drew has done both man and movement honor.

Publishers Weekly. Texas Press, American Studies and Music. An essay on the forced removal of the Cherokee nation, the American denial of the four thousand Cherokee deaths on the Trail of Tears and the contemporary legacy of these events. In this TMR online exclusive, Drew In this TMR online exclusive, Drew recalls her graduate-school workshop with the self-destructive Ted Berrigan, whose collection The Sonnets remains a classic of experimental poetry.

Selected commentary and book reviews. The Nation. Historical Studies. PhD thesis. In particular, it highlights Discussing his gambling, dueling, business relationships, love of the military, and his inability to tolerate dissent as they related to slave society, the dissertation argues most significantly that Jackson was a continual law-breaker whose conception of the law-as a flexible instrument that could be sued or broken by those in power to serve their own needs-was deeply Southern.

Most widely held works by Bettina Drew. Nelson Algren : a life on the wild side by Bettina Drew Book 21 editions published between and in English and Undetermined and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide "Ernest Hemingway predicted that he would 'rank among our best American novelists. And the French feminist Simone de Beauvoir pledged her eternal love in a transatlantic affair that was one of the century's most romantic and passionate.

Yet until now, Nelson Algren, the Chicago-born author of five novels, several short-story collections and travelogues, and countless essays and poems, has never been the subject of a biography. He was a man whose life was marked by compulsive gambling, disastrous marriages, and incredible extremes--from Sartre's Paris coterie to a Texas jail cell, from Hollywood parties to skid-row soup kitchens, from literary celebration to public censorship.

Playing out his youthful ambition to become 'the American Gorky, ' Algren made himself a voice for the lost and despised--addict, prostitute, murderer, prisoner--portraying, with poetry and compassion, the dark underside of the American dream. A Depression radical who rode the rails as a hobo and stole a typewriter to finish his first novel, a member of left-wing literary circles with James T. Still, Algren remained a hilarious raconteur, and whether as wartime correspondent in Saigon or investigative reporter of the controversial murder charge against boxer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, he was willful, uncompromising, original--and he managed to produce an impressive body of fiction, a lasting legacy in the deeply American tradition of such writers as Dreiser, Anderson, and Twain.

Calling upon scores of interviews and hundreds of pages of manuscripts and correspondence, including the love letters of Simone de Beauvoir, Bettina Drew's vivid narrative captures the essence of a complex nonconformist whose tremendous talent lives on through his writing.

It is a walk on the wild side, with a man who knew it as no other. The Texas stories of Nelson Algren by Nelson Algren 12 editions published between and in English and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide Twelve stories on the author's hobo days in Texas where he searched for work during the s depression and was jailed for stealing. In one story he writes, "God help you if you run and God help you if you fight; God help you if you're broke and God help you if you're black.

Crossing the expendable landscape by Bettina Drew Book 6 editions published in in English and Spanish and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide "Noted essayist Bettina Drew takes the reader on an in-depth exploration of several American cities-- Stamford, Hilton Head, Las Vegas, Dallas, Celebration-- to examine the consequences of built environments that fail to reflect regional, historic, aesthetic, and social values.

Drew talks to the everyday people who live in these cities, along with the urban planners and developers who created them, about the cultural impact of big-business-inspired living. She concludes with an overview of the ways in which some architects and planners are now working to humanize American landscape development. Always searching for the impact of physical environment on human happiness, Drew focuses on what has gone so wrong with mass architecture and reflects on the possibilities for built environments in the future"--Back cover.

The Texas stories of Nelson Algren by Nelson Algren Book 5 editions published in in English and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide Twelve stories on the author's hobo days in Texas where he searched for work during the s depression and was jailed for stealing.

John Edgar Hoover and the great American inquisitions Visual 1 edition published in in English and held by 73 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Presents a critical overview of the career of J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI for over forty years.