The 1936 Olympic Games played a key role in the development of both Hitler s Third Reich and international sporting competition. This volume gathers original essays by modern scholars from the Games most prominent participating countries and lays out the issues -- sporting as well as political -- surrounding individual nations involvement. "The Nazi Olympics" opens with an analysis of Germany s preparations for the Games and the attempts by the Nazi regime to allay the international concerns about Hitler s racist ideals and expansionist ambitions. Essays follow on the United States,...
The 1936 Olympic Games played a key role in the development of both Hitler s Third Reich and international sporting competition. This volume gathers o...
Illinois may at first glance seem distant from the epicenter of the literary rebellion of twentieth-century poetry, but much of that revolt was fomented by writers of the Chicago Renaissance and unfurled in the pages of Chicago's own little magazine, Harriet Monroe's Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology marked a further turning on the road of experimentation. Illinois Voices includes the work of more than seventy-five poets, both those closely associated with Illinois (Gwendolyn Brooks, Carl Sandburg, Kenneth Fearing, John Knoepfle) and those, such as Oak Park-born Ernest...
Illinois may at first glance seem distant from the epicenter of the literary rebellion of twentieth-century poetry, but much of that revolt was foment...