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New York: Broadway Books, 1997. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Jack Delano (Author photograph). [8], 403, [5] pages. Joseph Kanon (born 1946) is an American author, best known for thriller and spy novels set in the period immediately after World War II. Kanon studied at Harvard University, and at Trinity College in Cambridge. As an undergraduate, he published his first stories in The Atlantic Monthly. Kanon was the editor in chief, CEO, and president of the publishing houses Houghton Mifflin and E. P. Dutton in New York. Kanon began his writing career in 1995. His first novel, Los Alamos (1997), became a bestseller and received the Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1998. Further novels followed, including The Prodigal Spy, The Good German and Alibi. His stories are set in the period between World War II and 1950, and he has often used a real event, such as the Potsdam Conference or the Manhattan Project, as the background for a murder case. His novels are critically acclaimed, and reviewers from the Boston Globe and The New York Times have compared his work with the novels of Graham Greene and John le Carré. A film based on The Good German was produced in 2006, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring George Clooney and Cate Blanchett. Istanbul Passage is a spy thriller set in that city in 1945. Leaving Berlin (2015) concerns an American expatriate who becomes an unwilling double agent of the American and East German intelligence services during the Berlin Airlift of 1948-1949. Spring 1945. As work on the first atomic bomb nears completion on a remote mesa in New Mexico, Karl Bruner, a Manhattan Project security officer, is found murdered in nearby Santa Fe. Is Bruner the victim of a violent sexual encounter, as the local police believe, or is his death a crime that threatens to jeopardize the secret of the Project itself? This is the mainspring of Joseph Kanon's Los Alamos, a supremely original and romantic new thriller that re-creates the most compelling real-life drama of this century. Michael Connolly, the intelligence officer brought in to crack Bruner's case--and then make it disappear--soon discovers that investigating a murder in Los Alamos is anything but routine. In a town so secret it does not officially exist, he must thread his way through a makeshift community of displaced émigrés, soldiers, and idealistic scientists for whom murder is, at best, an unwelcome intrusion as they race to end a brutal war. Only when Connolly falls in love and begins an affair with Emma, the enigmatic wife of one of the scientists, does he truly begin to unravel the past associations, tangled sex lives, and conflicting morality at the dark heart of the Project. Interweaving fact and fiction, Los Alamos is at once a powerful novel of historical intrigue and a vivid portrait of those involved in the Manhattan Project: Robert Oppenheimer, its charismatic scientific director; General Groves, its blunt Army commander; and the brilliant team of scientists whose work would change the world forever. Like the invention at its core, Los Alamos is about fusion--of loyalty and betrayal, idealism and guilt--and its deadly aftermath. Elegantly written and deftly constructed, Los Alamos marks the emergence of a major new storytelling talent., Broadway Books, 1997, 3, Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press, 2001. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xvii, [3], 345 p. Illustrations. Glossary. Bibliographical Essay. Index. One of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series. Some half a million Jews lived in Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933. Over the next decade, thousands would flee. Among these refugees, teens and young adults formed a remarkable generation. Born between 1914 and 1928 (approximately), they were old enough to appreciate the loss of their homeland and the experience of flight, but often young and flexible enough to survive and even flourish in new environments. Many would go on to make great contributions to their new countries and to the world. Walter Laqueur, himself a distinguished member of this group, offers a unique generational history of the young people whose lives were irrevocably shaped by the rise of the Nazis. They escaped to Palestine and the United States, to the Soviet Union and England, to South America and Shanghai and Australia. Some even remained in Germany, in hiding throughout the war. Some fled with their families and were greeted by friends and relatives in a new home. Others were completely alone, escaping from Germany or Austria through great danger and arriving in foreign lands with no help or support. They come from a variety of backgrounds--some secular, some observant; some Zionists, some German patriots; some poor, some well-to-do--but they are united by the experience of flight from Nazi persecution during their formative years. This generation produced such disparate figures as Henry Kissinger and "Dr. Ruth" Westheimer; noted academics and political leaders of both Israel and East Germany; even a Benedictine abbot, a Hindu guru, and a West African chieftain. Drawing on interviews, published and unpublished memoirs, and his own experiences, Walter Laqueur skillfully braids together numerous individual stories and experiences to paint a vivid collective portrait of Generation Exodus. From Wikipedia: "Walter Ze'ev Laqueur (born 26 May 1921) is an American historian and political commentator. Laqueur was born in Breslau, Lower Silesia, Prussia (modern Wroc aw, Poland), into a Jewish family. In 1938, he left Germany for the British Mandate of Palestine. His parents, who were unable to leave, became victims of the Holocaust. Laqueur lived in Israel from 1938 to 1953. After one year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he joined a Kibbutz and worked as an agricultural laborer from 1939 to 1944. In 1944, he moved to Jerusalem, where he worked as a journalist until 1953, covering Palestine and other countries in the Middle East. Since 1955 Laqueur has lived in London. He was founder and editor, with George Mosse, of the Journal of Contemporary History and of Survey from 1956 to 1964. He was also founding editor of The Washington Papers. He was Director of the Institute of Contemporary History and the Wiener Library in London from 1965 to 1994. From 1969 he was a member, and later Chairman (until 2000), of the International Research Council of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington. He was Professor of the History of Ideas at Brandeis University from 1968 to 1972, and University Professor at Georgetown University from 1976 to 1988. He has also been a visiting professor of history and government at Harvard, the University of Chicago, Tel Aviv University and Johns Hopkins University. Laqueur's main works deal with European history in the 19th and 20th centuries, especially Russian history and German history, as well as the history of the Middle East. The topics he has written about include the German Youth Movement, Zionism, Israeli history, the cultural history of the Weimar Republic and Russia, Communism, the Holocaust, fascism, and the diplomatic history of the Cold War. His books have been translated into many languages, and he was one of the founders of the study of political violence, guerrilla warfare and terrorism. His comments on international affairs have appeared in many American and European newspapers and periodicals.", Brandeis University Press, 2001, 3, New York: Random House, 1971. Third printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. [12], 461, [5] pages. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Some minor page discoloration noted. Jay Anthony Lukas (April 25, 1933 - June 5, 1997) was an American journalist and author, probably best known for his 1971 book Don't Shoot--We Are Your Children and his 1985 book Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families. Common Ground is a classic study of race relations, class conflict, and school busing in Boston, Massachusetts, as seen through the eyes of three families: one upper-middle-class white, one working-class white, and one working-class African-American. Lukas began his professional journalism career at The Baltimore Sun, then moved to The New York Times. He stayed at the Times for nine years, working as a roving reporter, and serving at the Washington, D.C., New York City, and United Nations bureaus, and overseas in Ceylon, India, Japan, Pakistan, South Africa and Zaire. After working at the New York Times Magazine as a staff writer and freelancer for a short time in the 1970s, Lukas quit reporting to pursue a career in book and magazine writing, becoming known for writing intensely researched nonfiction works. He was a contributor to The Atlantic Monthly, the Columbia Journalism Review, Esquire, Harper's Magazine, The Nation, The New Republic, and the Saturday Review. Additionally, he was the co-founder and editor of MORE, a "critical journal" on the news media which "collapsed" in 1978, and a "contributing editor to the New Times, an alternative magazine that folded also in 1978. The author, first and foremost an extraordinary reporter. The essence of this book is his vivid, detailed portraits of: Linda Fitzpatrick, James "Groovy" Hutchinson, David Goldring, Don Baty, Sue Thrasher, John McAuliff, Roy De Berry, Jim Murphy, Jerry Rubin [one of the founders of the Yippies and one of the Chicago Seven], and Johnie Scott. These individuals were involved in civil rights, antiwar movement, counterculture, Harvard, and draft resistance., Random House, 1971, 3, San Francisco: San Francisco Art Institute, 2019.. 4to. 71 pp. Soft Cover. Illustrated paper wraps. Very Good+. Color prints throughout. Extremely Scarce.A+ is an affirmation of the enduring power of quality, exhibiting work by three artists Susan Hauptman, Irene Pijoan, and Richard Sheehan who captured the attention of the art world in the 1980s with inventive audacity, conviction, and confidence, taking traditional subject matter of landscape, still life, self-portrait, and abstraction and blowing it to smithereens. While the artists used distinctly different media, materials, and sources of inspiration, each had a remarkable and dynamic intensity of vision which made their teaching a profound experience for the students in their lectures and classes at the San Francisco Art Institute. Some 25 years later, and after each of their deaths, their work has been infrequently seen locally yet their influence lives on in exemplary artists who studied with them at SFAI, and have shaped the contemporary art scene in the Bay Area and beyond.Among many notable periods in SFAIs long history, the late 1980s and early 1990s stand out as a confluence of extraordinary and interconnected artists. Students at the time included Paris gallerist, Joseph Tang, and now-lauded artists Toba Khedoori, Rachel Khedoori, Alicia McCarthy, Ruby Neri, and Jason Rhoades, all of whom studied with Irene Pijoan, an associate professor at SFAI from 1983 until 2004. In 1988, Richard Sheehan joined SFAI as a visiting lecturer, and in 1990, Pijoan recruited Susan Hauptman as a visiting faculty member.All three artists grounded their own work and their teaching in a strict emphasis on foundations of painting and drawing composition, light, and color while bringing distinctive approaches to their interactions with students: Pijoan was a fiercely dedicated and even intimidating mentor; Hauptman always encouraging; Sheehan more matter-of-fact and direct.As an educational institution, SFAIs pedagogy is built on the role of artists teaching artists, and the generational transfer of knowledge that catalyzes further exploration and creation. This vital undertaking is not easily summed up in simple results or grades, yet depends on determinations of artistic quality a consensus that the ecosystem of the art world continues long after graduation. Or perhaps a more evocative motif of lineage, individuality, and interconnection is the colorful weave of the mural by Pijoans student Alicia McCarthy that anchors SFAIs new Fort Mason Campus and is visible from the Main Gallery, entering into conversation with A+.A+ is Pijoans first exhibition in San Francisco in 15 years and Hauptmans first exhibition in San Francisco in 25 years. Sheehan developed a devoted following in San Francisco in the 1980s, but largely stepped back from the art world in the early 1990s. This current presentation aims to introduce a new generation of SFAI students and Bay Area audiences to three extraordinary artists, and foster continued conditions for the development of unique visions enriched by interplay and exchange.A+ is guest curated by Jeremy Stone. Special thanks to Jeremy Stone, the estate of Susan Hauptman, the estate of Irene Pijoan, the Sheehan Family Trust, and the Forum Gallery, New York, for their participation and assistance in organizing this exhibition. A+ is accompanied by an illustrated color catalogue. About the Artists:Susan Hauptman (19472015) was born in Michigan. She worked almost exclusively on paper with charcoal and pastel, and is best known for her stark, enigmatic, often expressionless self-portraits in which she depicted herself with alarmingly precise and candid detail, in ways critics described as strikingly androgynous, and confronted cultural notions of beauty, reality, femininity and masculinity. A recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, two Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants, an Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation grant, an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award, and other awards, Hauptman is represented in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Norton Museum of Art, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, and Oakland Museum of California. Solo museum shows include the Georgia Museum of Art, Athens; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Hauptman was a visiting artist teaching drawing at SFAI in 1990.Irene Pijoan (19532004) was born in Lausanne, Switzerland but came to study in the United States, receiving her BFA and MFA from UC Davis where she studied sculpture with Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, and Manuel Neri. Pijoan moved into painting with her figurative encaustic relief and oil work on wood and plaster, first shown at the Lester Gallery, Inverness, CA in 1980 and in San Francisco in 1981 at Gallery Paule Anglim. Pijoans later abstract paintings on canvas and large-scale mixed media and paper cut-out works with text evolved into large installations and commissions in aluminum. Pijoans work has been shown both nationally and internationally, including the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Forum dArt Contemporain, Sierre, Switzerland; Raab Gallery, Berlin and London; Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM; and Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA. In California, her work has been shown at Artspace, San Francisco; Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara; Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco; Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose; the Oakland Museum of California; Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco; Stella Polaris Gallery, Los Angeles; and UC Berkeley Art Museum. In New York her work was included in exhibitions at Leo Castelli Gallery (1987) and David Beitzel Gallery (1992). Grants and residencies include a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Grant, Art Matters Individual Artist Grant, Ford Foundation Grant, and Djerassi Foundation Residency. Pijoan was an associate professor of art at SFAI from 1983 to 2004.Richard Sheehan (1953-2006) was born in Boston, MA. He received his BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and his MFA from Yale University in 1977, where he received the Elizabeth Canfield Hicks Memorial Scholarship. A figurative painter who documented the urban Massachusetts and Rhode Island surroundings, Sheehan worked outdoors, with an old mail truck carrying his easel and canvases. Critics often thought he was a West Coast artist following in the legacy of SFAI faculty members Elmer Bischoff and Richard Diebenkorn, due to his palette and the light emanating from his paintings. Sheehan was given his first solo show in 1978 at the Alpha Gallery, Boston. His paintings have been exhibited at ABC/Capital Cities, Inc., New York, NY; The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Hayden Corridor Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, NY; Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI; Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, IL; Allan Stone Gallery/Allan Stone Projects, New York, NY; Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco; and Wilhelm Gallery, Houston, TX. His work is in the permanent collections of Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; and numerous corporate and private collections across the U.S. Sheehan was a visiting lecturer at San Francisco Art Institute in 1988., San Francisco: San Francisco Art Institute, 2019., 0, New York: The World Publishing Company, 1970. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. [10], 399, [5] pages. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Erasure residue on fep. Minor edge soiling noted. Paul Lauter (spouse of Florence Howe) is the Smith Professor of Literature at Trinity College. He has served as president of the American Studies Association and is a major figure in the revision of the American literary canon. Lauter writes about movement activities from the perspective of a full-time participant: 1964 Mississippi freedom schools; Students for a Democratic Society (SDS); the Morgan community school in Washington, DC; a variety of antiwar, antidraft actions; the New University Conference; The Feminist Press, which he helped found; and the United States Servicemen's Fund, an organization supporting antiwar GIs. He got fired, got busted, got published, and even got tenure. Florence Howe was an American author, publisher, literary scholar, and historian. She earned a BA from Hunter College in English, and a MA in English from Smith College. Her life and work were focused on feminism and social justice. She founded Feminist Press in 1970. In 1973, she became the president of the Modern Language Association. She was a college professor and taught women's studies at Goucher College. In 1971, she became professor of Humanities at SUNY. She wrote or edited more than a dozen books and more than 120 essays. Her essays were published in the Harvard Educational Review, the Nation, the New York Review of Books, the Women's Review of Books, and a variety of anthologies. Her books included a memoir, A Life in Motion and a collection of essays, Myths on Coeducation. The Conspiracy of Youth is both a manifesto on and an argument for rationally facing the question of what does this country owe its young, and what do they owe it? In the course of determining why many young people seem bent on the destruction of so many American institutions, Paul Lauter and Florence Howe have been forced to draw a searlingly relevant portrait of what it is like to be young in America. Do the conventional institutional channels of education, training, employment, and service offer the young the opportunity to shape their own destinies and decide on the form and quality of their lives?, The World Publishing Company, 1970, 3, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. As New in As New dust jacket. 2010. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. 1400043603 . No story has been more central to Americas history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book that fully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obamas life or explores the ambition behind his rise. Those familiar with Obamas own best-selling memoir or his campaign speeches know the touchstones and details that he chooses to emphasize, but nowfrom a writer whose gift for illuminating the historical significance of unfolding events is without peerwe have a portrait, at once masterly and fresh, nuanced and unexpected, of a young man in search of himself, and of a rising politician determined to become the first African-American president. The Bridge offers the most complete account yet of Obamas tragic father, a brilliant economist who abandoned his family and ended his life as a beaten man; of his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, who had a child as a teenager and then built her career as an anthropologist living and studying in Indonesia; and of the succession of elite institutions that first exposed Obama to the social tensions and intellectual currents that would force him to imagine and fashion an identity for himself. Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, David Remnick allows us to see how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, an experience that would not only shape his urge to work in politics but give him a home and a community, and that would propel him to Harvard Law School, where his sense of a greater mission emerged. Deftly setting Obamas political career against the galvanizing intersection of race and politics in Chicagos history, Remnick shows us how that citys complex racial legacy would make Obamas forays into politics a source of controversy and bare-knuckle tactics: his clashes with older black politicians in the Illinois State Senate, his disastrous decision to challenge the former Black Panther Bobby Rush for Congress in 2000, the sex scandals that would decimate his more experienced opponents in the 2004 Senate race, and the storyfrom both sidesof his confrontation with his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. By looking at Obamas political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us the conflicting agendas of black politicians: the dilemmas of men like Jesse Jackson, John Lewis, and Joseph Lowery, heroes of the civil rights movement, who are forced to reassess old loyalties and understand the priorities of a new generation of African-American leaders. The Bridge revisits the American drama of race, from slavery to civil rights, and makes clear how Obamas quest is not just his own but is emblematic of a nation where destiny is defined by individuals keen to imagine a future that is different from the reality of their current lives.. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, pristine condition; unread, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. AS NEW/AS NEW.. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 672 pp ., Alfred A. Knopf, 2010, 5<
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No story has been more central to America's history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book that fully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obama's life or explores the ambition behind his rise. Those familiar with Obama's own best-selling memoir or his campaign speeches know the touchstones and details that he chooses to emphasize, but now--from a writer whose gift for illuminating the historical significance of unfolding events is without peer--we have a portrait, at once masterly and fresh, nuanced and unexpected, of a young man in search of himself, and of a rising politician determined to become the first African-American president. "The Bridge" offers the most complete account yet of Obama's tragic father, a brilliant economist who abandoned his family and ended his life as a beaten man; of his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, who had a child as a teenager and then built her career as an anthropologist living and studying in Indonesia; and of the succession of elite institutions that first exposed Obama to the social tensions and intellectual currents that would force him to imagine and fashion an identity for himself. Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, David Remnick allows us to see how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, an experience that would not only shape his urge to work in politics but give him a home and a community, and that would propel him to Harvard Law School, where his sense of a greater mission emerged. Deftly setting Obama's political career against the galvanizing intersection of race and politics in Chicago's history, Remnick shows us how that city's complex racial legacy would make Obama's forays into politics a source of controversy and bare-knuckle tactics: his clashes with older black politicians in the Illinois State Senate, his disastrous decision to challenge the former Black Panther Bobby Rush for Congress in 2000, the sex scandals that would decimate his more experienced opponents in the 2004 Senate race, and the story--from both sides--of his confrontation with his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. By looking at Obama's political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us the conflicting agendas of black politicians: the dilemmas of men like Jesse Jackson, John Lewis, and Joseph Lowery, heroes of the civil rights movement, who are forced to reassess old loyalties and understand the priorities of a new generation of African-American leaders. "The Bridge" revisits the American drama of race, from slavery to civil rights, and makes clear how Obama's quest is not just his own but is emblematic of a nation where destiny is defined by individuals keen to imagine a future that is different from the reality of their current lives. Media >, [PU: Random House]<
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New York: Broadway Books, 1997. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Jack Delano (Author photograph). [8], 403, [5] pages. Joseph Kanon (born 1946) is an American author, best known for thriller and spy novels set in the period immediately after World War II. Kanon studied at Harvard University, and at Trinity College in Cambridge. As an undergraduate, he published his first stories in The Atlantic Monthly. Kanon was the editor in chief, CEO, and president of the publishing houses Houghton Mifflin and E. P. Dutton in New York. Kanon began his writing career in 1995. His first novel, Los Alamos (1997), became a bestseller and received the Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1998. Further novels followed, including The Prodigal Spy, The Good German and Alibi. His stories are set in the period between World War II and 1950, and he has often used a real event, such as the Potsdam Conference or the Manhattan Project, as the background for a murder case. His novels are critically acclaimed, and reviewers from the Boston Globe and The New York Times have compared his work with the novels of Graham Greene and John le Carré. A film based on The Good German was produced in 2006, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring George Clooney and Cate Blanchett. Istanbul Passage is a spy thriller set in that city in 1945. Leaving Berlin (2015) concerns an American expatriate who becomes an unwilling double agent of the American and East German intelligence services during the Berlin Airlift of 1948-1949. Spring 1945. As work on the first atomic bomb nears completion on a remote mesa in New Mexico, Karl Bruner, a Manhattan Project security officer, is found murdered in nearby Santa Fe. Is Bruner the victim of a violent sexual encounter, as the local police believe, or is his death a crime that threatens to jeopardize the secret of the Project itself? This is the mainspring of Joseph Kanon's Los Alamos, a supremely original and romantic new thriller that re-creates the most compelling real-life drama of this century. Michael Connolly, the intelligence officer brought in to crack Bruner's case--and then make it disappear--soon discovers that investigating a murder in Los Alamos is anything but routine. In a town so secret it does not officially exist, he must thread his way through a makeshift community of displaced émigrés, soldiers, and idealistic scientists for whom murder is, at best, an unwelcome intrusion as they race to end a brutal war. Only when Connolly falls in love and begins an affair with Emma, the enigmatic wife of one of the scientists, does he truly begin to unravel the past associations, tangled sex lives, and conflicting morality at the dark heart of the Project. Interweaving fact and fiction, Los Alamos is at once a powerful novel of historical intrigue and a vivid portrait of those involved in the Manhattan Project: Robert Oppenheimer, its charismatic scientific director; General Groves, its blunt Army commander; and the brilliant team of scientists whose work would change the world forever. Like the invention at its core, Los Alamos is about fusion--of loyalty and betrayal, idealism and guilt--and its deadly aftermath. Elegantly written and deftly constructed, Los Alamos marks the emergence of a major new storytelling talent., Broadway Books, 1997, 3, Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press, 2001. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xvii, [3], 345 p. Illustrations. Glossary. Bibliographical Essay. Index. One of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series. Some half a million Jews lived in Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933. Over the next decade, thousands would flee. Among these refugees, teens and young adults formed a remarkable generation. Born between 1914 and 1928 (approximately), they were old enough to appreciate the loss of their homeland and the experience of flight, but often young and flexible enough to survive and even flourish in new environments. Many would go on to make great contributions to their new countries and to the world. Walter Laqueur, himself a distinguished member of this group, offers a unique generational history of the young people whose lives were irrevocably shaped by the rise of the Nazis. They escaped to Palestine and the United States, to the Soviet Union and England, to South America and Shanghai and Australia. Some even remained in Germany, in hiding throughout the war. Some fled with their families and were greeted by friends and relatives in a new home. Others were completely alone, escaping from Germany or Austria through great danger and arriving in foreign lands with no help or support. They come from a variety of backgrounds--some secular, some observant; some Zionists, some German patriots; some poor, some well-to-do--but they are united by the experience of flight from Nazi persecution during their formative years. This generation produced such disparate figures as Henry Kissinger and "Dr. Ruth" Westheimer; noted academics and political leaders of both Israel and East Germany; even a Benedictine abbot, a Hindu guru, and a West African chieftain. Drawing on interviews, published and unpublished memoirs, and his own experiences, Walter Laqueur skillfully braids together numerous individual stories and experiences to paint a vivid collective portrait of Generation Exodus. From Wikipedia: "Walter Ze'ev Laqueur (born 26 May 1921) is an American historian and political commentator. Laqueur was born in Breslau, Lower Silesia, Prussia (modern Wroc aw, Poland), into a Jewish family. In 1938, he left Germany for the British Mandate of Palestine. His parents, who were unable to leave, became victims of the Holocaust. Laqueur lived in Israel from 1938 to 1953. After one year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he joined a Kibbutz and worked as an agricultural laborer from 1939 to 1944. In 1944, he moved to Jerusalem, where he worked as a journalist until 1953, covering Palestine and other countries in the Middle East. Since 1955 Laqueur has lived in London. He was founder and editor, with George Mosse, of the Journal of Contemporary History and of Survey from 1956 to 1964. He was also founding editor of The Washington Papers. He was Director of the Institute of Contemporary History and the Wiener Library in London from 1965 to 1994. From 1969 he was a member, and later Chairman (until 2000), of the International Research Council of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington. He was Professor of the History of Ideas at Brandeis University from 1968 to 1972, and University Professor at Georgetown University from 1976 to 1988. He has also been a visiting professor of history and government at Harvard, the University of Chicago, Tel Aviv University and Johns Hopkins University. Laqueur's main works deal with European history in the 19th and 20th centuries, especially Russian history and German history, as well as the history of the Middle East. The topics he has written about include the German Youth Movement, Zionism, Israeli history, the cultural history of the Weimar Republic and Russia, Communism, the Holocaust, fascism, and the diplomatic history of the Cold War. His books have been translated into many languages, and he was one of the founders of the study of political violence, guerrilla warfare and terrorism. His comments on international affairs have appeared in many American and European newspapers and periodicals.", Brandeis University Press, 2001, 3, New York: Random House, 1971. Third printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. [12], 461, [5] pages. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Some minor page discoloration noted. Jay Anthony Lukas (April 25, 1933 - June 5, 1997) was an American journalist and author, probably best known for his 1971 book Don't Shoot--We Are Your Children and his 1985 book Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families. Common Ground is a classic study of race relations, class conflict, and school busing in Boston, Massachusetts, as seen through the eyes of three families: one upper-middle-class white, one working-class white, and one working-class African-American. Lukas began his professional journalism career at The Baltimore Sun, then moved to The New York Times. He stayed at the Times for nine years, working as a roving reporter, and serving at the Washington, D.C., New York City, and United Nations bureaus, and overseas in Ceylon, India, Japan, Pakistan, South Africa and Zaire. After working at the New York Times Magazine as a staff writer and freelancer for a short time in the 1970s, Lukas quit reporting to pursue a career in book and magazine writing, becoming known for writing intensely researched nonfiction works. He was a contributor to The Atlantic Monthly, the Columbia Journalism Review, Esquire, Harper's Magazine, The Nation, The New Republic, and the Saturday Review. Additionally, he was the co-founder and editor of MORE, a "critical journal" on the news media which "collapsed" in 1978, and a "contributing editor to the New Times, an alternative magazine that folded also in 1978. The author, first and foremost an extraordinary reporter. The essence of this book is his vivid, detailed portraits of: Linda Fitzpatrick, James "Groovy" Hutchinson, David Goldring, Don Baty, Sue Thrasher, John McAuliff, Roy De Berry, Jim Murphy, Jerry Rubin [one of the founders of the Yippies and one of the Chicago Seven], and Johnie Scott. These individuals were involved in civil rights, antiwar movement, counterculture, Harvard, and draft resistance., Random House, 1971, 3, San Francisco: San Francisco Art Institute, 2019.. 4to. 71 pp. Soft Cover. Illustrated paper wraps. Very Good+. Color prints throughout. Extremely Scarce.A+ is an affirmation of the enduring power of quality, exhibiting work by three artists Susan Hauptman, Irene Pijoan, and Richard Sheehan who captured the attention of the art world in the 1980s with inventive audacity, conviction, and confidence, taking traditional subject matter of landscape, still life, self-portrait, and abstraction and blowing it to smithereens. While the artists used distinctly different media, materials, and sources of inspiration, each had a remarkable and dynamic intensity of vision which made their teaching a profound experience for the students in their lectures and classes at the San Francisco Art Institute. Some 25 years later, and after each of their deaths, their work has been infrequently seen locally yet their influence lives on in exemplary artists who studied with them at SFAI, and have shaped the contemporary art scene in the Bay Area and beyond.Among many notable periods in SFAIs long history, the late 1980s and early 1990s stand out as a confluence of extraordinary and interconnected artists. Students at the time included Paris gallerist, Joseph Tang, and now-lauded artists Toba Khedoori, Rachel Khedoori, Alicia McCarthy, Ruby Neri, and Jason Rhoades, all of whom studied with Irene Pijoan, an associate professor at SFAI from 1983 until 2004. In 1988, Richard Sheehan joined SFAI as a visiting lecturer, and in 1990, Pijoan recruited Susan Hauptman as a visiting faculty member.All three artists grounded their own work and their teaching in a strict emphasis on foundations of painting and drawing composition, light, and color while bringing distinctive approaches to their interactions with students: Pijoan was a fiercely dedicated and even intimidating mentor; Hauptman always encouraging; Sheehan more matter-of-fact and direct.As an educational institution, SFAIs pedagogy is built on the role of artists teaching artists, and the generational transfer of knowledge that catalyzes further exploration and creation. This vital undertaking is not easily summed up in simple results or grades, yet depends on determinations of artistic quality a consensus that the ecosystem of the art world continues long after graduation. Or perhaps a more evocative motif of lineage, individuality, and interconnection is the colorful weave of the mural by Pijoans student Alicia McCarthy that anchors SFAIs new Fort Mason Campus and is visible from the Main Gallery, entering into conversation with A+.A+ is Pijoans first exhibition in San Francisco in 15 years and Hauptmans first exhibition in San Francisco in 25 years. Sheehan developed a devoted following in San Francisco in the 1980s, but largely stepped back from the art world in the early 1990s. This current presentation aims to introduce a new generation of SFAI students and Bay Area audiences to three extraordinary artists, and foster continued conditions for the development of unique visions enriched by interplay and exchange.A+ is guest curated by Jeremy Stone. Special thanks to Jeremy Stone, the estate of Susan Hauptman, the estate of Irene Pijoan, the Sheehan Family Trust, and the Forum Gallery, New York, for their participation and assistance in organizing this exhibition. A+ is accompanied by an illustrated color catalogue. About the Artists:Susan Hauptman (19472015) was born in Michigan. She worked almost exclusively on paper with charcoal and pastel, and is best known for her stark, enigmatic, often expressionless self-portraits in which she depicted herself with alarmingly precise and candid detail, in ways critics described as strikingly androgynous, and confronted cultural notions of beauty, reality, femininity and masculinity. A recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, two Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants, an Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation grant, an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award, and other awards, Hauptman is represented in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Norton Museum of Art, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, and Oakland Museum of California. Solo museum shows include the Georgia Museum of Art, Athens; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Hauptman was a visiting artist teaching drawing at SFAI in 1990.Irene Pijoan (19532004) was born in Lausanne, Switzerland but came to study in the United States, receiving her BFA and MFA from UC Davis where she studied sculpture with Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, and Manuel Neri. Pijoan moved into painting with her figurative encaustic relief and oil work on wood and plaster, first shown at the Lester Gallery, Inverness, CA in 1980 and in San Francisco in 1981 at Gallery Paule Anglim. Pijoans later abstract paintings on canvas and large-scale mixed media and paper cut-out works with text evolved into large installations and commissions in aluminum. Pijoans work has been shown both nationally and internationally, including the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Forum dArt Contemporain, Sierre, Switzerland; Raab Gallery, Berlin and London; Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM; and Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA. In California, her work has been shown at Artspace, San Francisco; Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara; Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco; Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose; the Oakland Museum of California; Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco; Stella Polaris Gallery, Los Angeles; and UC Berkeley Art Museum. In New York her work was included in exhibitions at Leo Castelli Gallery (1987) and David Beitzel Gallery (1992). Grants and residencies include a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Grant, Art Matters Individual Artist Grant, Ford Foundation Grant, and Djerassi Foundation Residency. Pijoan was an associate professor of art at SFAI from 1983 to 2004.Richard Sheehan (1953-2006) was born in Boston, MA. He received his BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and his MFA from Yale University in 1977, where he received the Elizabeth Canfield Hicks Memorial Scholarship. A figurative painter who documented the urban Massachusetts and Rhode Island surroundings, Sheehan worked outdoors, with an old mail truck carrying his easel and canvases. Critics often thought he was a West Coast artist following in the legacy of SFAI faculty members Elmer Bischoff and Richard Diebenkorn, due to his palette and the light emanating from his paintings. Sheehan was given his first solo show in 1978 at the Alpha Gallery, Boston. His paintings have been exhibited at ABC/Capital Cities, Inc., New York, NY; The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Hayden Corridor Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, NY; Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI; Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, IL; Allan Stone Gallery/Allan Stone Projects, New York, NY; Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco; and Wilhelm Gallery, Houston, TX. His work is in the permanent collections of Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; and numerous corporate and private collections across the U.S. Sheehan was a visiting lecturer at San Francisco Art Institute in 1988., San Francisco: San Francisco Art Institute, 2019., 0, New York: The World Publishing Company, 1970. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. [10], 399, [5] pages. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Erasure residue on fep. Minor edge soiling noted. Paul Lauter (spouse of Florence Howe) is the Smith Professor of Literature at Trinity College. He has served as president of the American Studies Association and is a major figure in the revision of the American literary canon. Lauter writes about movement activities from the perspective of a full-time participant: 1964 Mississippi freedom schools; Students for a Democratic Society (SDS); the Morgan community school in Washington, DC; a variety of antiwar, antidraft actions; the New University Conference; The Feminist Press, which he helped found; and the United States Servicemen's Fund, an organization supporting antiwar GIs. He got fired, got busted, got published, and even got tenure. Florence Howe was an American author, publisher, literary scholar, and historian. She earned a BA from Hunter College in English, and a MA in English from Smith College. Her life and work were focused on feminism and social justice. She founded Feminist Press in 1970. In 1973, she became the president of the Modern Language Association. She was a college professor and taught women's studies at Goucher College. In 1971, she became professor of Humanities at SUNY. She wrote or edited more than a dozen books and more than 120 essays. Her essays were published in the Harvard Educational Review, the Nation, the New York Review of Books, the Women's Review of Books, and a variety of anthologies. Her books included a memoir, A Life in Motion and a collection of essays, Myths on Coeducation. The Conspiracy of Youth is both a manifesto on and an argument for rationally facing the question of what does this country owe its young, and what do they owe it? In the course of determining why many young people seem bent on the destruction of so many American institutions, Paul Lauter and Florence Howe have been forced to draw a searlingly relevant portrait of what it is like to be young in America. Do the conventional institutional channels of education, training, employment, and service offer the young the opportunity to shape their own destinies and decide on the form and quality of their lives?, The World Publishing Company, 1970, 3, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. As New in As New dust jacket. 2010. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. 1400043603 . No story has been more central to Americas history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book that fully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obamas life or explores the ambition behind his rise. Those familiar with Obamas own best-selling memoir or his campaign speeches know the touchstones and details that he chooses to emphasize, but nowfrom a writer whose gift for illuminating the historical significance of unfolding events is without peerwe have a portrait, at once masterly and fresh, nuanced and unexpected, of a young man in search of himself, and of a rising politician determined to become the first African-American president. The Bridge offers the most complete account yet of Obamas tragic father, a brilliant economist who abandoned his family and ended his life as a beaten man; of his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, who had a child as a teenager and then built her career as an anthropologist living and studying in Indonesia; and of the succession of elite institutions that first exposed Obama to the social tensions and intellectual currents that would force him to imagine and fashion an identity for himself. Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, David Remnick allows us to see how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, an experience that would not only shape his urge to work in politics but give him a home and a community, and that would propel him to Harvard Law School, where his sense of a greater mission emerged. Deftly setting Obamas political career against the galvanizing intersection of race and politics in Chicagos history, Remnick shows us how that citys complex racial legacy would make Obamas forays into politics a source of controversy and bare-knuckle tactics: his clashes with older black politicians in the Illinois State Senate, his disastrous decision to challenge the former Black Panther Bobby Rush for Congress in 2000, the sex scandals that would decimate his more experienced opponents in the 2004 Senate race, and the storyfrom both sidesof his confrontation with his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. By looking at Obamas political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us the conflicting agendas of black politicians: the dilemmas of men like Jesse Jackson, John Lewis, and Joseph Lowery, heroes of the civil rights movement, who are forced to reassess old loyalties and understand the priorities of a new generation of African-American leaders. The Bridge revisits the American drama of race, from slavery to civil rights, and makes clear how Obamas quest is not just his own but is emblematic of a nation where destiny is defined by individuals keen to imagine a future that is different from the reality of their current lives.. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, pristine condition; unread, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. AS NEW/AS NEW.. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 672 pp ., Alfred A. Knopf, 2010, 5<
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[EAN: 9781400043606], Gebraucht, wie neu, [PU: Alfred A. Knopf, NY], POLITICS; CURRENT AFFAIRS; BIOGRAPHY; BARACK OBAMA; US PRESIDENTS; BIOGRAPHY, Jacket, No story has been more central to America’s history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book that fully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obama’s life or explores the ambition behind his rise. Those familiar with Obama’s own best-selling memoir or his campaign speeches know the touchstones and details that he chooses to emphasize, but now—from a writer whose gift for illuminating the historical significance of unfolding events is without peer—we have a portrait, at once masterly and fresh, nuanced and unexpected, of a young man in search of himself, and of a rising politician determined to become the first African-American president. The Bridge offers the most complete account yet of Obama’s tragic father, a brilliant economist who abandoned his family and ended his life as a beaten man; of his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, who had a child as a teenager and then built her career as an anthropologist living and studying in Indonesia; and of the succession of elite institutions that first exposed Obama to the social tensions and intellectual currents that would force him to imagine and fashion an identity for himself. Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, David Remnick allows us to see how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, an experience that would not only shape his urge to work in politics but give him a home and a community, and that would propel him to Harvard Law School, where his sense of a greater mission emerged. Deftly setting Obama’s political career against the galvanizing intersection of race and politics in Chicago’s history, Remnick shows us how that city’s complex racial legacy would make Obama’s forays into politics a source of controversy and bare-knuckle tactics: his clashes with older black politicians in the Illinois State Senate, his disastrous decision to challenge the former Black Panther Bobby Rush for Congress in 2000, the sex scandals that would decimate his more experienced opponents in the 2004 Senate race, and the story—from both sides—of his confrontation with his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. By looking at Obama’s political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us the conflicting agendas of black politicians: the dilemmas of men like Jesse Jackson, John Lewis, and Joseph Lowery, heroes of the civil rights movement, who are forced to reassess old loyalties and understand the priorities of a new generation of African-American leaders. The Bridge revisits the American drama of race, from slavery to civil rights, and makes clear how Obama’s quest is not just his own but is emblematic of a nation where destiny is defined by individuals keen to imagine a future that is different from the reality of their current lives. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, pristine condition; unread, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. AS NEW/AS NEW. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 672 pp, Books<
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No story has been more central to America's history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book that fully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obama's life or explores the ambition behind his rise. Those familiar with Obama's own best-selling memoir or his campaign speeches know the touchstones and details that he chooses to emphasize, but now--from a writer whose gift for illuminating the historical significance of unfolding events is without peer--we have a portrait, at once masterly and fresh, nuanced and unexpected, of a young man in search of himself, and of a rising politician determined to become the first African-American president. "The Bridge" offers the most complete account yet of Obama's tragic father, a brilliant economist who abandoned his family and ended his life as a beaten man; of his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, who had a child as a teenager and then built her career as an anthropologist living and studying in Indonesia; and of the succession of elite institutions that first exposed Obama to the social tensions and intellectual currents that would force him to imagine and fashion an identity for himself. Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, David Remnick allows us to see how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, an experience that would not only shape his urge to work in politics but give him a home and a community, and that would propel him to Harvard Law School, where his sense of a greater mission emerged. Deftly setting Obama's political career against the galvanizing intersection of race and politics in Chicago's history, Remnick shows us how that city's complex racial legacy would make Obama's forays into politics a source of controversy and bare-knuckle tactics: his clashes with older black politicians in the Illinois State Senate, his disastrous decision to challenge the former Black Panther Bobby Rush for Congress in 2000, the sex scandals that would decimate his more experienced opponents in the 2004 Senate race, and the story--from both sides--of his confrontation with his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. By looking at Obama's political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us the conflicting agendas of black politicians: the dilemmas of men like Jesse Jackson, John Lewis, and Joseph Lowery, heroes of the civil rights movement, who are forced to reassess old loyalties and understand the priorities of a new generation of African-American leaders. "The Bridge" revisits the American drama of race, from slavery to civil rights, and makes clear how Obama's quest is not just his own but is emblematic of a nation where destiny is defined by individuals keen to imagine a future that is different from the reality of their current lives. Media >, [PU: Random House]<
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