Mark Jeffreys

Overweight Sensation

The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman

Allan Sherman was the Larry David, the Adam Sandler, the Sacha Baron Cohen of 1963. He led Jewish humor and sensibilities out of ethnic enclaves and i...

Everything But the Coffee

Learning about America from Starbucks

“Simon knows more about Starbucks—and about why so many Americans find perfection in their lattes—than anyone. He connects our deepest desires t...

Politics of Labor Reform in Latin America

Between Flexibility and Rights

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American Jewish Identity Politics

"Displays the full range of informed, thoughtful opinion on the place of Jews in the American politics of identity." ---David A. Hollinger, Preston Ho...

Aspirin

The Extraordinary Story of a Wonder Drug

_______________ 'An enthralling read ... fascinating ... the author pieces the jigsaw together in thriller style' - David O'Donoghue, Sunday Business ...

Making Constitutional Law

Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1961-1991

Following on Making Civil Rights Law, which covered Thurgood Marshall's career from 1936-1961, this book focuses on Marshall's career on the Supreme C...

Intermarium

The Land Between the Black and Baltic Seas

History and collective memories influence a nation, its culture, and institutions; hence, its domestic politics and foreign policy. That is the case i...

Detroit And The "Good War": The World War II Letters of Mayor Edward Jeffries and Friends

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Orwell Subverted

The CIA and the Filming of Animal Farm

Film and cinema....

Detroit And The "Good War"

The World War II Letters of Mayor Edward Jeffries and Friends

Edward J. Jeffries Jr., was elected mayor of Detroit in 1937 and for a decade led the city through a period of race riots, union turmoil, and unpreced...

Orthodox Jews in America

Although there are many good books on the history of Jews in America and a smaller subset that focuses on aspects of Orthodox Judaism in contemporary ...

Governing Hong Kong

Administrative Officers from the 19th Century to the Handover to China, 1862-1997

Hong Kong is at the heart of modern China's position as a regional - and potential world - superpower. In this important and original history of the r...

American Reckoning

The Vietnam War and Our National Identity

“Few people understand the centrality of the Vietnam War to our situation as much as Christian Appy." —Ken Burns The critically acclaimed author o...

Country-soul

Interracial Conversations in Southern Music of the 1960s and 1970s

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Black Female Sexualities

Western culture has long regarded black female sexuality with a strange mix of fascination and condemnation, associating it with everything from desir...

Religion Index One

Periodicals

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The Green Room Book

Or, Who's who on the Stage

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CD-ROMs in Print

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African Arts

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Punch

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The Illuminated Psalter

Studies in the Content, Purpose and Placement of Its Images

The 150 Psalms of the Old Testament were the most important work of devotional literature in the Middle Ages. The Book of Psalms came to be transmitte...

The Best Plays of 1979-1980

Complete listings of all Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway productions and excerpts and summaries of the Ten Best Plays of the 1979-1980 se...

Inside UVA.

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A Bibliography of Works on Canadian Foreign Relations, 1991-1995

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The Best Plays of ...

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Burns Mantle Best Plays and the Year Book of the Drama in America

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National Review Bulletin

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The Film Weekly

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