by Paul Corkery (1987)
Based on hundreds of interviews and documentary information, this first major biography of Johnny Carson presents a great American success story.
E. Jean Carroll
A biography of the famed gonzo journalist who put Fear and Loathing into America's political lexicon. Turbo-journalist E. Jean Carroll delivers the shocking truth about the man who was the inspiration for Uncle Duke in the Doonesbury comic strip--his wild forays into politics, shark-hunting, the Hell's Angels, guns, whiskey, and drugs.
Annetta L. Gomez-Jefferson
""I have lived through three generations. I have heard the rebel yell, the mourns and groans of slavery and the death rattle in the throat of the expiring monster as he was forever destroyed." When Reverdy Cassius Ransom expressed this, he was reflecting on almost ninety years of a life spent as a pastor, editor, politician, writer, civil rights leader, and bishop of the African Methodist episcopal Church. In The Sage of Tawawa, Annetta L. Gomez-Jefferson offers Ransom as a symbol of an era and a larger movement and recalls him to be a man of deep faith and conviction.". "Educated at Wilberforce University in Ohio (after losing his scholarship from Oberlin College for protesting the segregation of the campus dining halls), Reverdy Cassius Ransom worked with and for the African Methodist Episcopal Church. His duties saw him run for Congress, be elected bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, serve as editor of the A.M.E. Church Review, and serve as church historiographer. In July 1941 Ransom received a letter from President Roosevelt appointing him to the Volunteer Participation Committee in the Office of Civilian Defense."--BOOK JACKET.
Wolfgang D. Elfe and James Hardin
Profiles nearly thirty German playwrights from the period 1889-1918, presenting primary and secondary bibliographies and illustrated biographical essays that chronicle each writer's career in detail.
Norman K. Risjord
Perhaps the most hotly debated character in American history, Thomas Jefferson stands as an enigma representing different and of ten contradictory ideas. That one man, for example, could author the Declaration of Independence and simultaneously own slaves or that he could recoil at the expansion of the federal government but later double the size of the country in a pen stroke has caused historians to question the true meaning of Jefferson's contribution to America's founding. This brief sketch of Jefferson answers many of the apparent contradictions of his fruitful life. Specifically, the author finds continuity in Jefferson's evolving philosophy of political economy. Because Jefferson was not a man intellectually tied to any single ideology, he was fully capable of embracing competing "persuasions" that seem to us today incompatible. The author shows how Jefferson's rhetoric was more a matter of time and circumstance than an element of absolute belief and demonstrates that Jefferson was not only a facile thinker but also a consummate politician.