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“walter roth”

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  • Looking Backward

    True Stories from Chicago's Jewish Past

    by Walter Roth ...
    Essays chronicling the Jewish history of Chicago, from the late nineteenth century to the end of World War II.The history of Jews in Chicago is a fascinating, complex, and largely unknown story. Thanks to the unstinting efforts of Walter Roth, much of this history has been preserved. Now, for the first time, this material has been distilled into a single volume, chronicling events and people from ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Accidental Anarchist

    How the Killing of a Humble Jewish Immigrant by Chicago's Chief of Police Exposed the Conflict Between Law & Order and Civil Rights in Early 20th Century America

    by Walter Roth, Joe Kraus ...
    It was a bitter cold morning in March, 1908. A nineteen-year-old Jewish immigrant traversed the confusing and unfamiliar streets of Chicago–a one-and-a-half-hour-long journey–from his ghetto home on Washburne Avenue to the luxurious Lincoln Place residence of Police Chief George Shippy. He arrived at 9 a.m. Within minutes after knocking on the front door, Lazarus Averbuch lay dead on the hallway ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Avengers and Defenders

    Glimpses of Chicago's Jewish Past

    by Walter Roth ...
    " Meticulous research brings alive in equal measure some of the best-known and least remembered, but fascinating, episodes in Chicago Jewish history." —Michael Feldberg, Executive Director, American Jewish Historical SocietyWalter Roth delves deep into the archives of Chicago's Jewish past in this collection of illuminating essays. The presence of Jews in Chicago goes back to 1841 and, Roth, a ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Contact Lens Complications

    Etiology, Pathogenesis, Prevention, Therapy

    by Hans-Walter Roth ...
    The first text devoted exclusively to this topic!A widely popular option for vision correction, contact lenses are also useful for the treatment of many serious optical disorders. Like any therapeutic tool, however, they have both positive and negative effects, and a variety of complications can result from their use. Diagnosing and treating these complications and injuries - which sometimes mimic ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD

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    The National Book Award–winning, New York Times–bestselling history of Yiddish-speaking immigrants on the Lower East Side and beyond.In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, two million Jewish immigrants poured into America, leaving places like Warsaw or the Russian shtetls to pass through Ellis Island and start over in the New World. This is a "brilliant" account of their stories ( ... Read more

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  • Naming Names

    by Victor S. Navasky ...
    Winner of the National Book Award: The definitive history of Joe McCarthy, the Hollywood blacklist, and HUAC from a longtime editor of The Nation and former Chair of the Columbia Journalism Review .Drawing on interviews with over one hundred and fifty people who were called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee—including Elia Kazan, Ring Lardner Jr., and A... ... Read more

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  • Blacklisted by History

    The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies

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    Accused of creating a bogus Red Scare and smearing countless innocent victims in a five-year reign of terror, Senator Joseph McCarthy is universally remembered as a demagogue, a bully, and a liar. History has judged him such a loathsome figure that even today, a half century after his death, his name remains synonymous with witch hunts. But that conventional image is all wrong, as veteran ... Read more

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  • Witness

    by Whittaker Chambers ...
    Whittaker Chambers had just participated in America's trial of the century in which Chambers claimed that Alger Hiss, a full-standing member of the political establishment, was a spy for the Soviet Union. This poetic autobiography recounts the famous case, but also reveals much more. Chambers' worldview--e.g. "e;man without mysticism is a monster"e;--went on to help make political conservatism a ... Read more

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  • The Communist

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  • Ex-Friends

    Falling Out With Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer

    by Norman Podhoretz ...
    Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer -- all are ex-friends of Norman Podhoretz, the renowned editor and critic and leading member of the group of New York intellectuals who came to be known as "the Family." As only a family member could, Podhoretz tells the story of these friendships, once central to his life, and shows how the political and ... Read more

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  • Whittaker Chambers

    A Biography

    by Sam Tanenhaus ...
    Whittaker Chambers is the first biography of this complex and enigmatic figure. Drawing on dozens of interviews and on materials from forty archives in the United States and abroad--including still-classified KGB dossiers--Tanenhaus traces the remarkable journey that led Chambers from a sleepy Long Island village to center stage in America's greatest political trial and then, in his last years, to ... Read more

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  • The Noir Forties

    The American People From Victory to Cold War

    by Richard Lingeman ...
    From one of our finest cultural historians, The Noir Forties is a vivid reexamination of America's postwar period, that "age of anxiety" characterized by the dissipation of victory dreams, the onset of the Red Scare, and a nascent resistance to the growing Cold War consensus.Richard Lingeman examines a brief but momentous and crowded time, the years between VJ Day and the beginning of the Korean ... Read more

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