Fairleigh Press: 250 books

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Car Safety Wars

One Hundred Years of Technology, Politics, and Death

by Michael R. Lemov
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015

Car Safety Wars is a gripping history of the hundred-year struggle to improve the safety of American automobiles and save lives on the highways. Described as the “equivalent of war” by the Supreme Court, the battle involved the automobile industry, unsung and long-forgotten safety heroes, at least...
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'True Jersey Blues'

The Civil War Letters of Lucien A. Voorhees and William McKenzie Thompson, 15th Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers

by Dominick Mazzagetti
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011

Lucien A. Voorhees and William Mackenzie Thompson left Flemington, New Jersey, in high spirits in September 1862 as enlisted men in the 15th New Jersey Regiment to join the fight for the Union. They expected to do their duty and return home victorious in short order. On the march South Voorhees and...
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by Austin E. Loignon, Thomas Adam, Kristen D. Burton
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018

The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This inaugural volume provides readers with articles on topics such as soccer, travel, music, and social policy. These articles highlight the movement of ideas, people, policies,...
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The Riggs War, 1913 to 1916

Reform and Revenge

by Paul Ryscavage
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017

In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson opened the nation’s door to an era of reform. To help him, he brought to Washington men imbued with a progressive spirit—and in some, grudges as well! Before work on reforms got underway, two high ranking officials of the Treasury Department attacked a...
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by Marouf A. Hasian Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017

This book provides academics and lay persons with Kafkaesque readings of our memories of the 2007 Nisour Square shootings in Iraq. The author uses critical analyses of the rise of Blackwater, support for private security firms and private contracting, prosecutorial and defense preparations and the...
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Framing Law and Crime

An Interdisciplinary Anthology

by Stefan Machura, Majid Yar, Susan Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016

This cutting-edge edited collection brings together 17 scholarly essays on two of cinema and television’s most enduring and powerful themes: law and crime. With contributions by many of the most prominent scholars in law, sociology, criminology, and film, Framing Law and Crime offers a critical...
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Mary Norton of New Jersey

Congressional Trailblazer

by David L. Porter
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013

Mary Norton of New Jersey: Congressional Trailblazer tells the compelling story of Mary Norton, who served in the United States House of Representatives for 13 terms from 1925 to 1951, featuring her significant role as a congressional pioneer for women and American workers. The daughter of Irish immigrants,...
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America’s Two Constitutions

A Study of the Treatment of Dissenters in Time of War

by Thomas J. Reed
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017

America’s Two Constitutions explores the history of the treatment of dissenters in time of war, beginning with the treatment of Tories during the Revolution, followed by description and analysis of the Lincoln administration’s treatment of disloyal persons during the Civil War, President Wilson’s...
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American Secrets

The Politics and Poetics of Secrecy in the Literature and Culture of the United States

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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011

Predicated upon the principles of political freedom, cultural openness, religious tolerance, individual self-reliance and ethnic diversity, the United States of America has been tempted recurrently by the lures of the secret. American Secrets explores this political, historical and cultural phenomenon...
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Father–Daughter Incest in Twentieth-Century American Literature

The Complex Trauma of the Wound and the Voiceless

by Christine Grogan
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016

The first major study to challenge the narrow definition of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by rereading six American literary texts, this book argues for the importance of literature in representing not just circumscribed, singular traumatic events, as Cathy Caruth argued in the late nineties,...
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Love in the Afterlife

Underground Religion at the Movies

by Richard Striner
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016

This is a definitive study of films that have been built around the themes of love, death, and the afterlife—films about lovers who meet again (and love again) in heaven, via reincarnation, or through other kinds of after-death encounters. Far more than books about mere ghosts in the movies or religion...
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by Willard Bohn
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010

Visual poetry can be defined as poetry that is meant to be seen. Combining painting and poetry, it attempts to synthesize the principles underlying each discipline. Visual poems are immediately recognizable by their refusal to adhere to a rectilinear grid and by their tendency to flout their plasticity....
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Germaine de Staël in Germany

Gender and Literary Authority (1800–1850)

by Judith E. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011

Germaine de Staël and German Women: Gender and Literary Authority (1800-1850) investigates Staël's significance as an icon of female artistic genius and political engagement for two generations of German women, including Caroline A. Fischer, Caroline Pichler, Johanna Schopenhauer, Bettina von Arnim,...
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The Life and Times of Moses Jacob Ezekiel

American Sculptor, Arcadian Knight

by Peter Adam Nash
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014

The Life and Times of Moses Jacob Ezekiel: American Sculptor, Arcadian Knight tells the remarkable story of Moses Ezekiel and his rise to international fame as an artist in late nineteenth-century Italy. Sephardic Jew, homosexual, Confederate soldier, Southern apologist, opponent of slavery, patriot,...
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