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LAMBERT, PHILIP. Inside The Music Of Brian Wilson: The Songs, Sounds And Influences Of The Beach Boys' Founding Genius. The Continuum Publishing Company, New York: 2007.

416 pages. Philip Lambert's infinite need to delve deeper into the musical oeuvre of Brian Wilson - by understanding the technical basis of his sound worlds; exploring the music Wilson heard as a child - creates a different type of biography, taking the perspective from within Brian Wilson's music, instead of from his personal life, though they are interwoven. Inside the Music of Brian Wilson is, as author Phillip Lambert writes in the prologue "completely, and intensely, focused on the music of Brian Wilson, on the musical essence of his songs and the aesthetic value of his artistic achievements. It acknowledges the familiar biographical contexts of his songs, but it tells completely new stories about the birth and evolution of his musical ideas, identifying important musical trends in his work, heretofore undisclosed inter-song connections within his music, or between his music and that of others, and the nature and extent of his artistry. It aims not just to identify great songs, but to explain exactly what makes them so." Lambert, a renowned musicologist, brings this work to life with both his professional expertise and an infectious personal appreciation of the power of pop music. His clear, engaging tone and accessible writing style allows even a musically inexperienced reader to follow him as he traces Wilson's musical evolution, with a particular focus on the years leading up to the writing and recording of Pet Sounds and SMiLE, albums which many consider to be the masterpieces of his oeuvre. Inside the Music of Brian Wilson is the definitive book on Wilson's music and is essential reading for fans of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, and great pop music. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book.

[SW: (Key Words: Brian Wilson, Pop Music, Beach Boys, Philip Lambert, Biography).]

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WILSON, REUEL K. To The Life Of Silver Harbor: Edmund Wilson And Mary Mccarthy On Cape Cod. University Press of New England, Hanover: 2008.

192 pages. "This is the understated New England version of the Hollywood childhood memoir, with a beautiful twist. Reuel K. Wilson is the son of writers Mary McCarthy and Edmund Wilson, both almost as famous for their scandalously bohemian lifestyle as for their work. While the marriage lasted only seven years (from 1938, the year Reuel was born, to 1945), Reuel's parents left him with an abiding love for Wellfleet, a small community just 14 miles south of Provincetown on Cape Cod, where the couple lived for several years. Reuel shared his father's distaste for the "richification" of the Cape -- Edmund first began visiting there in the 1920s, when it was truly a haven for artists and writers -- but he clearly loves the houses and the landscape that remain the most stable part of what seems a pretty unstable upbringing. It's quite a cast of characters - Eugene O'Neill (whose house slid quietly into the ocean), John Dos Passos (who called the Cape "New England's Riviera"), E.E. Cummings and many others. The chapters "Edmund Wilson's Cape Cod Poetry" ("Where daylight whitens to the west," Wilson wrote in a poem called "Provincetown") and "Remembering My Parents and Cape Cod" are by far the warmest and most memorable in this delightful memoir." NLos Angeles Times The Cape as evoked and experienced by a legendary literary couple. Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) and Mary McCarthy (1912-1989), famed authors, literary critics, libertines, and leftists, were married for seven years and had one child together, Reuel K. Wilson. While bringing forward new biographical revelations, as well as texts that have never been published before, Reuel K. Wilson chronicles his parents' lives on Cape Cod, together and apart, while examining their relationships with the landscape around them, both human and physical. The book combines biography, cultural history, and literary analysis in an effort to, as the author writes, "impart a sense of the two protagonists' flesh, blood, nerves, and determination to make an artistic synthesis from observation and experience. If they recreate the place, my role has been to recreate them in it." "Although he is the prismatic lens through which we see Wilson and McCarthy, Mr. Reuel has kept the focus squarely on his parents. He is not shy about giving his point of view, but he is genuinely concerned with broadening and deepening our understanding of these fascinating and complex people. Clearly, they were not the easiest of parents to be around, but this book is truly a whining-free zone, about as far as you can get from a Mommie Dearest sort of memoir . . . References to autobiographical and biographical sources are exhaustively referenced and even footnoted, all very useful as a guide to those readers who will doubtless be stimulated by this book to read more about Wilson and McCarthy. Mr. Reuel is not shy about correcting or adding to the record where necessary: After all he has a unique vantage point and authority to do so. But he consistently does so with a quiet grace all his own, a quality which would have greatly benefited his choleric father and contrary mother and those around them . . . Clearly this was one child who was far better off with divorced parents than if their battlefield of a marriage had continued throughout his childhood. Perhaps this is the root of his mellow view of them and Cape Cod, the scene of so much of his life with Mom and Dad." NWashington Times "Reuel Wilson retraces the eye-opening natures walks he took with his father, side by side, when he was entering adolescence. Gull Pond in Wellfleet, "almost a perfect circle," allowed ample time for a memorable lecture of the Lady's Slipper, Edmund Wilson's favorite wildflower, and how its slipper-like pouch seems to connect with his father's fascination with women's feet. The author's boyhood innocence is saturated with mature wisdom. His book offers us a rare and intimate glimpse into the sophisticated Bohemian culture made famous in the writings of his parents."NChristopher Busa, founder and editor, Provincetown Arts "Invaluable for anyone who cares deeply about Mary McCarthy or Edmund Wilson, this is a lovely bookNvivid, lucid, and wise."NFrances Kiernan, author of Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy Reuel K. Wilson is the son of renowned literary critic Edmund Wilson and the writer Mary McCarthy. Now retired from teaching Russian, Polish, and Comparative Literature at the University of Western Ontario, he is the author of The Literary Travelogue (1973) and Poland's Caribbean Tragedy (1986) and numerous articles, including portions of this material in The Paris Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Cape Cod Voice. He maintains a part-time residence in Wellfleet, on Cape Cod. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book.

[SW: (Key Words: Comparative Literature, Edmund Wilson, Memoirs, Massachusetts, Cape Cod, Reuel K. Wilson, Wellfleet, New England, Mary McCarthy).]

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Army Command and General Staff College: American Intervention in Russia, 1917-1918; A Study In Political-Military Relationships, US Army 1987
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009030-American Intervention in Russia, 1917-1918; A Study In Political-Military Relationships 116 Pages1987 THIS DOCUMENT IS FURNISHED ON CDROM FORMAT The intervention in Russia in 1918 was a momentous decision in American military and diplomatic history. In the chaotic months between January and July 1918, Wilson developed and implemented America's foreign policy toward the Russian revolution. As Wilson developed America's strategy, Russia was being town apart first by war, then revolution, and finally civil war. This study examines the interaction between the American civilian and military leaders over the foreign policy decision to intervene in Russia. The focus of the study is on the extent of interaction of the American military leaders with President Wilson and his cabinet in regard to the final decision to intervene in Russia. Secondary sources such as George F. Kennan, David F. Trask, and Betty M. Unterberger are used in conjunction with various memoirs and most importantly Woodrow Wilson's Presidential Papers as edited by Arthur S. Link. Chapter one provides an insight into the history of Russia prior to the Brest-Litovsk treaty of 1918. This treaty confronted the Allies with a major crisis concerning the removal of the Russian front. The Allies discovered that they could intervene in Russia under the pretext of restoring the Republican government, expelling the Germans, and influencing postwar Russia. The treaty also gave the Allies added leverage to convince the Americans to intervene. A review of the decision of the Wilson administration to intervene in Russia is essential insight in understanding the American policies of the period. Chapter two concentrates on the political makeup of the American government in 1917-1918. This chapter gives an overview of the key military and political leaders that advised President Wilson on the decision to intervene. This includes their attitudes, concerns, and views, and how these affected their actions. This chapter discusses and analyzes issues such as military amalgamation, military expansion of the war, and priorities on the war front. Chapter three concentrates on Wilson's attitudes toward intervention and how he arrived at the decision to intervene. Allied pressure and influence as it developed is also examined along with the degree of the military's influence over Wilson and the extent of the interaction of the military with the cabinet regarding the intervention. As the crisis neared, the military and civilian leadership constantly changed positions on the intervention question. This chapter develops those positions and explains the final decision made by those leaders in July of 1918. In conclusion, the study offers a new prospective of the decision to intervene in Russia. This prospective concludes that the military did not significantly affect the overall decision to intervene. The reason for intervention was political, and the conception, force makeup, and mission was directed by the President without significant input from his military advisors. These insights are important for the historian as a means of examining potential relationships affecting a possible future low intensity conflict. THIS DOCUMENT IS FURNISHED ON CDROM FORMAT CD ROM Version

[SW: RUSSIA; USSR; WORLD WAR, 1914-1918; WAR I; WWI; SIBERIA; GEOPOLITICS; MILITARY INTERVENTION; WILSON, WOODROW; WILSON ADMINISTRATION; POLITICAL RELATIONS; STATE DEPARTMENT; INTERNATIONAL UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT; SCIENCE; LEADERSHIP]

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BOGGIS, JERRIANNE; RAIMON, EVE ALLEGRA & WHITE, BARBARA W. (EDITORS); GATES. JR., HENRY LOUIS (FOREWORD). Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, And Region. University of New Hampshire Press / University Press of New England, Hanover: 2007.

272 pages. Advances efforts to correct the historical record about the racial complexity and richness characteristic of rural New England's past. In the mid-nineteenth century, Harriet E. Wilson, an enterprising woman of mixed racial heritage, wrote an autobiographical novel describing the abuse and servitude endured by a young black girl in the supposedly free North. Originally published in Boston in 1859 and "lost" until its 1983 republication by noted scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Our Nig; or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, is generally considered the first work of fiction written by an African American woman published in the United States. With this collection, the first devoted entirely to Wilson and her novel, the editors have compiled essays that seek to understand Wilson within New England and New England as it might have appeared to Wilson and her contemporaries. The contributors include prominent historians, literary critics, psychologists, librarians, and diversity activists. Harriet Wilson's New England joins other critical works in the emerging field known as the New Regionalism in resurrecting historically hidden ethnic communities in rural New England and exploring their erasure from public memory. It offers new literary and historical interpretations of Our Nig and responds to renewed interest in Wilson's dramatic account of servitude and racial discrimination in the North. "This is a thought-provoking collection that provides valuable new historical context and advances current scholarly discussions on Wilson and her work and, wonderfully, offers a selection of more personal writings and conversations from people local to Milford and associated with the Harriet Wilson Project. These final essays demonstrate the powerful connections Wilson's contemporary readers make between her story and their lives and sense of culture and history in New Hampshire now."NDana Nelson, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English and American Studies, Vanderbilt University "Harriet Wilson's New England provides readers with a wonderful array of essays. Sure to be an indispensable asset for readers of Our Nig, the first novel by an African-American woman published in the United Statesa as well as for those seeking to learn more about black life in antebellum New England."NLaura Browder, Professor of English, Virginia Commonwealth University Hardcover, no dustjacket (as issued). Brand new book.

[SW: (Key Words: Harriet Wilson, Jerrianne Boggis, Eve Allegra Raimon, African American Studies, Black Fiction, Barbara W. White, Henry Louis Gates Jr.).]

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