Ira Aldridge, America's earliest important Black actor, became one of the most celebrated Shakespearean actors of nineteenth century Europe. This dramatic montage traces the joyous moment that performance can bring and the hurtful reality of being Black during racial slavery.This "Docudrama" was developed from actual letters, reviews, and photographs detailing the life and times of Ira Frederick Aldridge: aka "The African Tragedian."In a style akin to episodic dream fragmen...

The primary resources examined were publications that advertise the presentation of theater. These sources included "The Drama-logue," the "Back Stage West," and the "Los Angeles Times." There were culturally specific publications available, but these sources replicated the items located in the primary resources. Also, notices were listed in the cultures indigenous language, and the listings focused on companies formed purposefully for one-time events. I concentrated on the Sunday edition ...

Victims of childhood molestation struggle with intimacy in their adult relationships. This collection of 24 poems introduce you to a world of extremes, love and lust co-existing in the life of the injured being. The reader is introduced to the life of a juxtaposed personality. Love, is redefined in a world of constant infidelity. Intimacy is tortured. Trust twisted. Yet, within the miasma this being travels, there is a moral underpinning which resonates deeply throughout the journey of eac...

State judicial elections are governed by a unique set of rules that enforce longstanding norms of judicial independence by limiting how judicial candidates campaign. These rules have been a key part of recent debates over judicial elections and have been the subject of several U.S. Supreme Court cases.Regulating Judicial Elections provides the first accounting of the efficacy and consequences of such rules. C. Scott Peters re-frames debates over judicial elections by shifting away ...

From conducting top-secret missions to making Australian submarine history, Commodore Peter Scott depicts what it takes to be a Submariner. Over a decorated 34-year career, Commodore Scott served in 10 submarines, passed the most demanding military command course in the world and served as the Head of Profession of the Submarine Arm of the Royal Australian Navy. During that time his character was forged by the challenges of naval service, success and failure as a leader, catastrophic onboa...

"Our most provocative scholar of American power " reveals the forces behind the assassination of JFK—and their continuing influence over our world (David Talbot, Salon) .On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald. Shortly after, Oswald himself was killed. These events led many to believe there was a far greater plan at work, with a secret cabal of powerful men manipulatin...

Peter Dale Scott's brilliantly researched tour de force illuminates the underlying forces that drive U.S. global policy from Vietnam to Colombia and now to Afghanistan and Iraq. He brings to light the intertwined patterns of drugs, oil politics, and intelligence networks that have been so central to the larger workings of U.S. intervention and escalation in Third World countries through alliances with drug-trafficking proxies. This strategy was originally developed in the late 1940s to con...

In „Die Gloria Scott“ erzählt Sherlock Holmes seinen ersten Fall. Er kommt darauf, als er Watson einen Brief zeigt, dessen Inhalt augenscheinlich harm- und sinnlos ist. Dennoch genügte er einst, um einen alten Mann zu Tode zu erschrecken. Die Geschichte: Victor Trevor, ein Kommilitone und Holmes' einziger Studienfreund, lädt Holmes zu sich nach Norfolk ein. Trevors Vater fordert Holmes, von dessen Methoden er gehört hat, heraus: Er soll ihm sagen, was er über ihn deduzieren kann. Holmes fi...

In "Simon Called Peter," Robert Keable crafts a poignant narrative that explores the interplay between faith and love against the backdrop of post-World War I society. The novel follows the spiritual journey of Peter Barclay, an Anglican priest grappling with the conflicting demands of his vocation and his deepening love for a woman named Simon. Keable's prose is imbued with lyrical beauty, intricately weaving theological reflections with profound emotional depth, thus situating the work w...

Now in a new edition updated through the unprecedented 2016 presidential election, this provocative book makes a compelling case for a hidden “deep state” that influences and often opposes official U.S. policies. Prominent political analyst Peter Dale Scott begins by tracing America’s increasing militarization, restrictions on constitutional rights, and income disparity since World War II. With the start of the Cold War, he argues, the U.S. government changed immensely in both function and...

The incredible book behind the primetime Channel 4 documentary, Peter: The Human Cyborg'A remarkable account of what it means to be human and what technology can really achieve' Sunday Telegraph'Peter's story is one of the most extraordinary you will ever hear. I urge people to read it' Stephen Fry'A remarkable story . . . you're left desperate to take nothing for granted' Radi...

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Die vollständigen Pat Hobby Geschichten (1940-1941), gelesen von Ingolf Kloss. Scott Fitzgerald schrieb diese Kurzgeschichten in den letzten Monaten vor seinem Tod. Sie sind eine faszinierende Selbstsatire, die seine Hollywood-Jahre zum Leben erwecken. Der Schauplatz: Ein großes Filmstudio; die Figur: Pat Hobby, ein abgehalfterter Drehbuchautor, der ständig versucht, wieder ins Showgeschäft einzusteigen, aber mehr Glück empfindet, wenn er in den einschlägigen Bars in d...