Bruce Dern : A Memoir (9780813147123)

One of Hollywood's biggest personalities, Bruce Dern is not afraid to say what he thinks. He has left an indelible mark on numerous projects, from critically acclaimed films to made-for-TV movies and television series. His notable credits include The Great Gatsby (1974), The 'Burbs (1989), Monster (2003), Django Unchained (2012), and Nebraska (2013), for which he won the Best Actor award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. He also earned Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor in Coming Home (1978) and for Best Actor in Nebraska (2013). In Bruce Dern: A Memoir, Christopher Fryer and Robert Crane help the outspoken star frame the fascinating tale of his life in Hollywood. Dern details the challenges he faced as an artist in a cutthroat business, his struggle against typecasting, and his thoughts on and relationships with other big names in the industry, including Elia Kazan, Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Nicholson, Paul Newman, Bob Dylan, Matt Damon, Jane Fonda, John Wayne, and Tom Hanks. He also explores the impact of his fame on his family and discusses his unique relationship with his daughter, actress Laura Dern. Edgy and uncensored, this memoir takes readers on a wild ride, offering an insider's view of the last fifty years in Hollywood.

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• Format Paperback | 322 pages
• Dimensions 152 x 229 x 20.07mm | 449.06g
• Publication date 08 Oct 2014
• Publisher The University Press of Kentucky
• Publication City/Country Lexington, United States
• Language English
• Edition Statement Reissue
• Illustrations note 16 b&w photos
• ISBN10 0813147123
• ISBN13 9780813147123
• Bestsellers rank 2,520,980

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My Hitch in Hell : The Bataan Death March, New Edition (9781640121126)

Captured by the Japanese after the fall of Bataan, Lester I. Tenney was one of the very few who would survive the legendary Death March and three and a half years in Japanese prison camps. With an understanding of human nature, a sense of humor, sharp thinking, and fierce determination, Tenney endured the rest of the war as a slave laborer in Japanese prison camps. My Hitch in Hell is an inspiring survivor's epic about the triumph of human will despite unimaginable suffering. This edition features a new introduction and epilogue by the author.

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• Format Paperback | 252 pages
• Dimensions 150 x 230 x 17.78mm | 408.23g
• Publication date 01 Oct 2018
• Publisher University of Nebraska Press
• Publication City/Country Lincoln, United States
• Language English
• Edition New edition
• Edition Statement New
• Illustrations note 19 photographs, 1 map
• ISBN10 1640121129
• ISBN13 9781640121126

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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 5 : Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1852: The Oregon Trail (9780803272941)

Abigail Jane Scott was seventeen when she left Illinois with her family in the spring of 1852. Her record of the journey west is full of expressive detail: breakfasting in a snowstorm, walking behind the wagons to keep warm, tasting buffalo meat, trying to climb Independence Rock. She meets her future husband, Benjamin Duniway, at the end of the Oregon Trail and, in the years to come, finds fame as a writer and a leader of the suffrage movement in the Northwest. Her grandson, David Duniway, edited her trail diary for Covered Wagon Women. This volume includes the equally vivid diaries of other women who rode the wagons in 1852. Polly Coon of Wisconsin recalls trading with the Indians. Martha Read, starting from Illinois, is particularly alert to the suffering of the animals, noting hundreds of dead cows and horses along the way. Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank, twin sisters from Illinois, jointly chronicle their once-in-a-lifetime experience.

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• Format Paperback | 320 pages
• Dimensions 152 x 229 x 19.05mm | 363g
• Publication date 28 Jun 1997
• Publisher University of Nebraska Press
• Imprint BISON BOOKS
• Publication City/Country Nebraska, United States
• Language English
• Edition Statement Reprint
• Illustrations note Illus.
• ISBN10 0803272944
• ISBN13 9780803272941

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Fat Boys : A Slim Book (9780803271234)

The fat man-a cultural icon, a social enigma, a pressing medical issue-is the subject of this remarkably rich book. The figures that Sander L. Gilman considers, from the ugly fat man with the beautiful sylph trapped inside to the smart fat boy to the aging body desirous of rejuvenation, appear and reappear in different guises throughout Western culture. And as is often true, such marginal cases help define the shifting center of our dreams and beliefs. An exploration into the world of male body fantasies, Gilman's book examines how the representation of the fat man alters with time and alters how men relate to their own bodies and the bodies of others, both male and female. His examples-ranging from Santa Claus to Sancho Panza, from Falstaff to Babe Ruth, from Nero Wolfe to Al Roker-illustrate the complexity perennially associated with fat men. From discourses about normality to the playing fields of baseball, from Greek male beauty to the fat detective, Gilman's book examines and illuminates how cultures have imagined and portrayed the fat boy.

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• Format Paperback | 324 pages
• Dimensions 140 x 216 x 18.54mm | 412.77g
• Publication date 01 Jan 2011
• Publisher University of Nebraska Press
• Imprint BISON BOOKS
• Publication City/Country Nebraska, United States
• Language English
• ISBN10 0803271239
• ISBN13 9780803271234
• Bestsellers rank 2,023,589

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The Holocaust in the Soviet Union (9780803245198)

Published by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, and Yad Vashem, Jerusalem The Holocaust in the Soviet Union is the most complete account to date of the Soviet Jews during the World War II and the Holocaust (1941-45). Reports, records, documents, and research previously unavailable in English enable Yitzhak Arad to trace the Holocaust in the German-occupied territories of the Soviet Union through three separate periods in which German political and military goals in the occupied territories dictated the treatment of the Jews. Arad's examination of the differences between the Holocaust in the Soviet Union compared to other European nations reveals how Nazi ideological attacks on the Soviet Union, which included war on "Judeo-Bolshevism," led to harsher treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union than in most other occupied territories.

This historical narrative presents a wealth of information from German, Russian, and Jewish archival sources that will be invaluable to scholars, researchers, and the general public for years to come.

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• Format Paperback | 720 pages
• Dimensions 152 x 229 x 49.02mm | 1,006.98g
• Publication date 01 Jul 2013
• Publisher University of Nebraska Press
• Publication City/Country Lincoln, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note 1 map, 7 tables
• ISBN10 080324519X
• ISBN13 9780803245198
• Bestsellers rank 874,242

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Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 (9780803289055)

In the summer of 1871, Frances Marie Antoinette Mack married Fayette Washington Roe, fresh out of West Point, and left the East behind to join his infantry regiment at Fort Lyon, Colorado, where her sprightly account of frontier life begins. As a western army wife Frances Roe found herself in the shadow of the Rockies-Lt. Roe was stationed at Piegan Agency, Montana Territory, as well as in the Cheyenne country of Colorado and Indian Territory-and her book is filled with the beauty of the wilderness. She records the problems of camp and garrison life with servants, sand, and shortages, and the pleasures of parties and new friends, of hunting, fishing, and camping trips, and of long romps with her dog Hal. One chapter reports a fine summer's outing to twelve-year-old Yellowstone National Park in 1884. In the cavalcade of men's western memoirs, books written by frontier women have too often gone unheralded and almost unnoticed. Yet women were among the keenest observers of the nineteenth-century West and its inhabitants, as seen nowhere better than in Frances Roe's vivid account of life with the western army.

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• Format Paperback | 387 pages
• Dimensions 133 x 203 x 23.62mm | 476g
• Publication date 01 Dec 1981
• Publisher University of Nebraska Press
• Publication City/Country Lincoln, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note Illus
• ISBN10 0803289057
• ISBN13 9780803289055

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Duel in the Sun : Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus in the Battle of Turnberry (9780803264519)

The British Open, or the Open Championship as it's known outside the United States, is believed to be the most challenging tournament in professional golf. There was no greater Open than in 1977 at Turnberry on Scotland's southwest coast, when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus battled over the last thirty-six holes with Watson winning with a closing birdie. Drawing on interviews with participants, caddies, journalists, and spectators, Michael Corcoran brings the drama of this historic Open Championship to vivid life. Along with a revealing retelling of the '77 Open, Corcoran delivers an evocative historical overview of the Open and the tradition it represents.

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• Format Paperback | 215 pages
• Dimensions 155.96 x 227.58 x 11.94mm | 318g
• Publication date 01 Mar 2005
• Publisher University of Nebraska Press
• Imprint BISON BOOKS
• Publication City/Country Nebraska, United States
• Language English
• ISBN10 0803264518
• ISBN13 9780803264519
• Bestsellers rank 915,529

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