books by Ivan R. Dee, Publisher     books:     Ivan R. Dee, Publi...      Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940: How Americans Lived Through the Roaring Twenties and the Great ... David E. Kyvig Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2004 Informative I wanted a book that give accurate information about life during the 1920's and 1930's. This book definitely does that, but I felt like I was back in history class in high school. I found myself skimming over a lot of it because there was so much detailed information. ...             Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass Theodore Dalrymple Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2003 `You know funny people.' Dr Dalrymple's essays draw on his experience as a psychiatrist treating patients in a busy general hospital in a British slum and in a prison. The public policy issues he raises are not unique to Britain, nor are the characteristics of the underclass he portrays so ...             The Best of Ogden Nash Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2007 A definitive Nash anthology Over five hundred verses gathered from a wide collection of Nash's poems results in this, a definitive Nash anthology suitable not just for college-level poetry libraries, but for general-interest lending collections. While published works comprise the bulk of this ...             The Founders' Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms Stephen P. Halbrook Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2008 The depth and detail added to source material quotes makes this a fine pick THE FOUNDERS' SECOND AMENDMENT: ORIGINS OF THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS considers the history of the constitutional rights of Americans to bear arms in early America from 1768 to 1826, offering up the first book-length account of these origins based on the Founders' own ...             The Imperial Tense: Prospects and Problems of American Empire Andrew J. Bacevich Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2003 Debating the American Empire The debate on the American Empire takes place on several levels simultaneously: on one axis is the question of whether America is an empire, and if so, what kind of empire is it? It is obviously different from past empires because it is hardly territorial; but it still ...             But Didn't We Have Fun?: An Informal History of Baseball's Pioneer Era, 1843-1870 Peter Morris Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2008 Tons on new information Simply put, I have over 70 baseball books and Peter Morris's one of the best! You want to know how baseball started? Why Americans played the game? Why and how baseball changed? How it became a pro game? This is the book. Go get it.             Rethinking the Great Depression (American Ways Series) Gene Smiley Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2003 new look at country's worst crisis Based on new theories, Smiley has re-examined and re-assessed the forces that led to and prolonged the Great Depression. In clear non-technical prose, he shows what happened and why. This short book (163 pages plus sources and index) is divided into five chapters. ...             Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline Theodore Dalrymple Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2008 "Britishness" Lost Theodore Dalrymple's newest book, a collection of essays chiefly written for the magazine "City Journal," documents beneath the author's trademark wit and irony the sad decadence of contemporary Britain and the resultant loss of "Britishness," a grand tradition of ...             Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers Filip Muller Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 1999 Riviting Nobody should be critical of the writing "style" of this book. The man who wrote it doesn't claim to be a professional writer. He relates his own eyewitness accounts of the most horrific scenes, worse than any fiction imaginable. The book details the planned and ...             In Search of Ancient Ireland: The Origins of the Irish from Neolithic Times to the Coming of the English Carmel McCaffrey Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2003 Excellent overview of Irish prehistory and ancient and medieval history _In Search of Ancient Ireland_ by Carmel McCaffrey and Leo Eaton is a well-written and thorough tour of Irish history from Neolithic times following the last Ice Age up into the 12th century. Chapter one looked at the first Irish people. The chapter began with the ...             Remembrances of the Angels: A 50th Anniversary Retrospective on the Fire No One Can Forget John Kuenster Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2008 On a terrible day in December 1958, one of the deadliest fires in American history took the lives of ninety-two children and three nuns at Our Lady of the Angels school in Chicago. The tragedy shocked the nation, tore apart a community with grief and ange             I'll Have What She's Having: Behind the Scenes at the Great Romantic Comedies Daniel M. Kimmel Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2008 In considering the greatest of these films over time, Mr. Kimmel explains why When Harry Met Sally (1989) was called the greatest movie Woody Allen never made. Or how off-screen relationships helped My Man Godfrey (William Powell and Carole Lombard we             The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History Isaiah Berlin Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 1993 Tolstoy's views on history elucidated Sir Isaiah Berlin has written a critical acclaim of the historic views of famous Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy as expressed in one of his masterpieces "War and Piece". In 'The Hedgehog and The Fox' (1953), Dr. Berlin compares and contracts the monist and pluralist ...             A Good Day's Work: An Iowa Farm in the Great Depression Dwight W. Hoover Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2007 CITY PERSON CONNECTS WITH IOWA FARM STORY Dwight Hoover has written an engrossing story of farm life during the Depression in Iowa. What I found especially fascinating was learning of the gradual phasing out of work horses over many years--it wasn't a sudden conversion to gas-powered vehicles. As a person ...             After Many a Summer Dies the Swan Aldous Huxley Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 1993 After Many A Summer, Does the Swan Indeed Die? After Many a Summer Dies the Swan is a book set in America in the thirties. Jeremy Pordage, is an English scholard who was hired by millionaire Jo Stoyte to study and decipher the Hauberk papers which Stoyte acquired in England. Jo Stoyte, with his millions, his castle ...          products you might be interested in search for books anniversary, depression, remembrances, rethinking, retrospective, underclass      geepe.com    web we recommend `You know funny people.' randomly chosen kitchen: New 3x5 National Flag of Ireland Irish Country Flags