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Much like author James T. Farrell, Mickey Donovan--the main character in Dreaming Baseball--grew up on the South Side of Chicago dreaming of becoming a star for the White Sox. Donovan's childhood dream came true in 1919 when he made the team. Despite the fact that he spent most of his rookie season on the bench, it was truly a magical year--until the Black Sox scandal turned it into a nightmare.

James T. Farrell dreamed of one day playing second base for his hometown Chicago White Sox, but, failing that, he became one of America's great novelists. Farrell loved the game of...

From meeting Charles Lindbergh at Pan Am back in the '60s up till the megamerger of United Airlines with Continental Airlines in the mid-2000s, Jim has seen the rapid growth of the airline industry firsthand. From the jet era inception with the Boeing 707, to the historic introduction of the 747, which he witnessed himself, right up to the 787 introduced by United, he has been on a wild roller coaster ride that took him from Pan Am to Eastern Airlines to American Airlines to Continental and finally to United. It's a ride he hopes will capture the reader's interest and take them to exciting...

Indien 1857: George Fleury, ein junger Angehöriger der britischen Oberschicht, reist zu dem isolierten britischen Außenposten Krishnapur. Von dort soll er über den positiven Einfluss von Zivilisation und Fortschritt auf das vermeintlich rückständige Indien berichten. Gerüchte von Unruhen und Aufständen erreichen die Stadt, das Land ist in Aufruhr, doch die Vertreter der Britischen Ostindien-Kompanie halten Tea Time, fest überzeugt von ihrer militärischen und moralischen Überlegenheit. Als...

The Spirit of the Sixties uses political personalism to explain how and why the personal became political when Sixties activists confronted the institutions of American postwar culture. After establishing its origins in the Catholic Worker movement, the Beat generation, the civil rights movement, and Ban-the-Bomb protests, James Farrell demonstrates the impact of personalism on...

The first book in Farrell's five-volume series to be republished by the University of Illinois Press, "A World I Never Made" introduces three generations from two families, the working-class O'Neills and the lower-middle-class O'Flahertys. The lives of the O'Neills in particular reflect the tragic consequences of poverty, as young Danny O'Neill's parents--unable to sustain their large family--send him to live with his grandmother. Seen here at the age of seven, Danny is fraught with feelings of anxiety and dislocation as...