Kent Press: 598 books
The Music Went 'Round and Around
The Story of Musicarnival
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2004
Spotting a trend in the early 1950s of staging summer theater in the round under tents, Clevelander John L. Price Jr. decided to give it a try. Consulting a local statistician to determine the geographical center of the culturally inclined population, the bull’s-eye fell in Warrensville Heights,...
Sounding the Shallows
A Confederate Compendium for the Maryland Campaign of 1862
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
A companion volume to Taken at the Flood, this book identifies areas of research and in-depth source materials for studies of the Maryland campaign.
Politician Extraordinaire
The Tempestuous Life and Times of Martin L. Davey
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The biography of a colorful and controversial 20th-century politician
This carefully researched and engagingly written political biography marks the first full treatment of Ohio native and politician Martin L. Davey. An important figure on the local, state, and national political scene in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
How the Civilian Conservation Corps transformed our understanding of nature
In the spring of 1933, the United States was in the midst of the worst economic calamity it had ever experienced. Newly inaugurated president Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to approve funding allowing legions...
by Ellis Yochelson
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) is a highly respected figure in the history of geology and paleontology. Perhaps his most notable contribution to his field was his discovery of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, one of the most important fossil discoveries ever made. In addition to his distinguished...
The Websters
Letters of an American Army Family in Peace and War, 1836–1853
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
When Lucien Webster, West Point graduate and artilleryman, met Frances Smith, granddaughter of a Connecticut Revolutionary War hero, in Florida, neither could anticipate how exciting and stressful their lives would be over the next 17 years. Thrown together in St. Augustine in 1836 during the Second...
by Richard Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
A post–World War II memoir of a childhood in working-class Pittsburgh
“Alongside August Wilson and John Edgar Wideman, Richard Peterson is among the most evocative chroniclers of Pittsburgh, their colorful hometown. I loved Growing Up With Clemente for both its unnostalgic lyricism and...
Recording the Classics
Maestros, Music, and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
“There is no doubt that this book will appeal to specialists, including conductors, recording enthusiasts, musicologists, and performers. It provides unique information about conductors’ views regarding the artistic, procedural and commercial aspects of recording. Of greatest importance is the...
by Denise Seachrist
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Biography of an important figure in 20th-century musical history
Egyptian-born composer Halim El-Dabh has studied with the giants of 20th-centruy musical composition and conducting. Although The Musical World of Halim El-Dabh focuses on his career from his arrival in the U.S. in 1950 to his...
Politicians, the Press, and Propaganda
Lord Northcliffe and the Great War, 1914-1919
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Politicians, the Press, and Propaganda represents the most recent and most extensive research on Alfred Harmsworth (Lord Northcliffe), one of the “press lords” who influenced British politics and policy during the First World War. Thompson’s is the only study to deal with Northcliffe and the...
Sherman's Other War
The General and the Civil War Press, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Marszalek traces the roots of Sherman’s hostility toward the press and details his attempts to muzzle reporters during the Civil War, culminating in Sherman’s exclusion of all reporters from his famous March to the Sea.
Despite the passage of over a century, the question of press rights...
Ripperology
A Study of the World's First Serial Killer and a Literary Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2002
Ripperology, the sometimes obsessive interest in studying the crimes of Jack the Ripper, is a subject of timeless interest that has suffered from confusion, exaggeration, and hyperbole for over a century. Jack the Ripper was probably the first serial killer to appear in a large metropolis at a time...
Plain Dealing
Ohio Politics and Journalism Viewed from the Press Gallery
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2006
A collection of political remembrances from a longtime Statehouse and Washington bureau reporter
Son of an Ohio Supreme Court Justice and longtime political reporter, Rick Zimmerman presents Ohio politics from the inside. He began learning about Ohio politics and politicians as a young boy,...
by Mark A. Lause
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
Cultural politics and American bohemians in pre–Civil War New York
Amid the social and political tensions plaguing the United States in the years leading up to the Civil War, the North experienced a boom of cultural activity. Young transient writers, artists, and musicians settled in northern...