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Pressing the Fight: Print, Propaganda, and the Cold War
ISBN: 9781558499607 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Although often framed as an economic, military, and diplomatic confrontation, the Cold War was above all a conflict of ideas. In official pronouncements and publications as well as via radio broadcasts, television, and film, the United States and the Soviet Union both sought to extend their global reach as much through the power of persuasion as by the use of force. Yet of all the means each side employed to press its ideological case, none proved more reliable or successful than print. In this volume, scholars from a variety of disciplines explore the myriad ways print was used in the... Although often framed as an economic, military, and diplomatic confrontation, the Cold War was above all a conflict of ideas. In official pronounce... |
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James Laughlin, New Directions Press, and the Remaking of Ezra Pound
ISBN: 9781558494787 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Although James Laughlin (1914-1997) came from one of Pittsburgh's leading steel-making families, his passions were literary rather than industrial - he wanted to be a poet. Laughlin was a freshman at Harvard when he traveled to Rapallo, Italy, in 1933 to meet Ezra Pound (1885-1972), and he returned the following year to enroll in the poet's Ezuversity. Pound dismissed Laughlin's poetic talents, advising the wealthy young man to make himself a publisher. Laughlin did just that, founding New Directions Press in 1936. For much of the 1930s, Laughlin and Pound were friends, business associates,...
Although James Laughlin (1914-1997) came from one of Pittsburgh's leading steel-making families, his passions were literary rather than industrial - h...
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