Author: Richard Evans File Type: mobi In ruling against the controversial historian David Irving, whose libel suit against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt was tried in April 2000, the High Court in London labeled Irving a falsifier of history. No objective historian, declared the judge, would manipulate the documentary record in the way that Irving did. Richard J. Evans, a Cambridge historian and the chief adviser for the defense, uses this famous trial as a lens for exploring a range of difficult questions about the nature of the historians enterprise.

Author: Bruce A. Jacobs File Type: pdf Street criminals live in a dangerous world, but they cannot realistically rely on the criminal justice system to protect them from predation by fellow lawbreakers they are on their own when it comes to dealing with crimes perpetrated against them and often use retaliation as a mechanism for deterring and responding to victimization. Although retaliation lies at the heart of much of the violence that plagues many inner-city neighborhoods across the United States, it has received scant attention from criminologists. As a result, the structure, process, and forms of retaliation in the real world setting of urban America remain poorly understood. Street Justice Retaliation in the Criminal World, first published in 2006, explores the face of modern day retaliation from the perspective of currently active criminals who have experienced it first hand, as offenders, victims, or both.ReviewWhat do criminals do when they become victims? Surprisingly, criminologists have never systematically addressed this simple but important question - until now. Drawing on a sample of active street criminals, male and female, Jacobs and Wright reveal the powerful attractions of aggressive retaliation for those to whom law is effectively unavailable. What the legal system records as a homicide, an assault, an arsonor a theft is often, on the ground, an act of justice exacted by an indignant victim of wrongdoing. Yet for all its appeal, retaliation poses taxing challenges and is never automatic, resulting, rather, in a complex and varied set of street-level behaviors. Impressively researched, elegantly written, and filled with striking cases and arresting quotes, this book provides a vivid portrait of the myriad and ingenious ways that people embroiled in illegal activity get even. Scholars and students alike will benefit from the light that Jacobs and Wright shine on this long- neglected corner of criminal reality. -Mark Cooney, University of GeorgiaStreet Justice Retaliation in the Criminal Underworld makes important contributions to the limited literature in this area. The interviews and quoted material are rich and interesting, and the conceptual frameworks advance the field. -Bruce Johnson, National Development and Research InstitutesDrawing on more than 50 interviews with active street criminals, Jacobs and Wright have produced a groundbreaking study of the sources, manifestations, and consequences of criminal retaliation. No researcher who studies violence, punishment, or deterrence can ignore this important work. The book offers riveting descriptions of street vengeance that suggest uncomfortable parallels with the get tough movement in formal criminal justice. The last thing we should want to do is make the horrific conditions of life described in these pages even more violent than they already are. A deeply fascinating and disturbing account of the criminal underworld. -Richard Rosenfeld, University of Missouri St. Louis Book DescriptionStreet criminals live in a dangerous world, but they cannot rely on the criminal justice system to protect them from predation by fellow lawbreakers they often use retaliation as a mechanism for deterring and responding to victimization. This 2006 book explores retaliation from the perspective of those who have experienced it first hand.

Author: Carol A Stabile File Type: epub How forty-one womenincluding Dorothy Parker, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Lena Hornewere forced out of American television and radio in the 1950s Red Scare. At the dawn of the Cold War era, forty-one women working in American radio and television were placed on a media blacklist and forced from their industry. The ostensible reason so-called Communist influence. But in truth these womenamong them Dorothy Parker, Lena Horne, and Gypsy Rose Leewere, by nature of their diversity and ambition, a threat to the traditional portrayal of the American family on the airwaves. This book from Goldsmiths Press describes what American radio and television lost when these women were blacklisted, documenting their aspirations and achievements. Through original archival research and access to FBI blacklist documents, The Broadcast 41 details the blacklisted womens attempts in the 1930s and 1940s to depict America as diverse, complicated, and inclusive. The book tells a story about what happens when non-male, non-white perspectives are excluded from media industries, and it imagines what the new medium of television might have looked like had dissenting viewpoints not been eliminated at such a formative moment. The all-white, male-dominated Leave it to Beaver America about which conservative politicians wax nostalgic existed largely because of the forcible silencing of these forty-one women and others like them. For anyone concerned with the ways in which our cultural narrative is constructed, this book offers an urgent reminder of the myths we perpetuate when a select few dominate the airwaves. **Review ...this history is a valuable correction. Ms Magazine ...an impassioned, indignant documentation of the 1950swar over popular culture, highlighting the work of some particularly talented women heroes who could have shaped television programming to reflect real American values and diversity. Foreword Reviews *The Broadcast 41 * offers an insightful, persuasive history of the American conservative movement that united to suppress the voices of progressive women in broadcasting, and how their perspectives continue to remain relevant today. Stabiles frequent connections between the environment of the 1950s and contemporary US politics such as the #MeToo movement and the FBIs targeting of black identity extremists may offer a way into this lesser-known history for a broad audience of readers. This ongoing effort to recover the voices of women, immigrants and people of colour in broadcasting offers a vibrant alternative to what she terms the continuing historical amnesia surrounding the anti-communist blacklist. LSE Review of Books Review Carol Stabile provides us with a cautionary tale of a group of women previously erased from the history of broadcasting. This brilliantly researched history gives us the story of the Broadcast 41 and their enemies, the tale of a feminist cohort whose contributions to television and persecution by anti-Communists now emerges as a significant part of the story of a shameful era in American cultural history. Jane Feuer, Professor Emerita of English and Film Studies, University of Pittsburgh Trenchant and timely, The Broadcast 41 explores the birth of American television in the context of Cold War anti-Communism. Carol Stabile traces two competing stories, the first centered on anti-Communists who orchestrated the media blacklist, the second documenting the women influencing media production in New York City in the 1930s and 1940s. Stabile considers what television might have been, given the work, resilience and resistance of progressive women and people of color who worked in front of, and behind, the small screen. The Broadcast 41 is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of television and American culture. Patrice Petro, Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara The Broadcast 41 is a must-read book for media scholars who want to understand the historical origins of entertainment media as a powerful reinforcer of sexism, racism and classism in American culture. Caroline Heldman, Associate Professor of Politics, Occidental College This richly detailed, forcefully argued feminist history of the Broadcast 41 sheds scene-changing light on the women artists muffled by the anti-Communist blacklist and more. Both the birth of American television and the strange attraction of G-Man masculinity are clarified through Stabiles sharp and lively eye. William J. Maxwell, Professor of English and African American Studies, Washington University in St. Louis

Author: Donna M. Lucey File Type: epub Sargents Women has a distinct elegance and potencyLuceys writing propels you forward, straight to the heart of the story, along the vibrant ties that linked this fascinating artist to the women he made infamous. Christene Barberich, global editor-in-chief and cofounder, Refinery29In this seductive, multilayered biography, based on original letters and diaries, Donna M. Lucey illuminates four extraordinary women painted by the iconic high-society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny intuition, Sargent hinted at the mysteries and passions that unfolded in his subjects lives.Elsie Palmer traveled between her fathers Rocky Mountain castle and the medieval English manor house where her mother took refuge, surrounded by artists, writers, and actors. Elsie hid labyrinthine passions, including her love for a man who would betray her. As the veiled Sally Fairchildbeautiful and commandingemerged on Sargents canvas, the power of his artistry lured her sister, Lucia, into a Bohemian life. The saintly Elizabeth Chanler embarked on a surreptitious love affair with her best friends husband. And the iron-willed Isabella Stewart Gardner scandalized Boston society and became Sargents greatest patron and friend.Like characters in an Edith Wharton novel, these women challenged societys restrictions, risking public shame and ostracism. All had forbidden love affairs Lucia bravely supported her family despite illness, while Elsie explored Spiritualism, defying her overbearing father. Finally, the headstrong Isabella outmaneuvered the richest plutocrats on the planet to create her own magnificent art museum.These compelling stories of female courage connect our past with our presentand remind us that while women live differently now, they still face obstacles to attaining full equality.**ReviewIn Sargents Women . . . Lucey does . . . what she does best, creating a rollicking snow globe version of an almost unimaginable world of wealth, crackpot notions of self-improvement and high-flying self-indulgence. - Amy Bloom, *New York Times Book Review* [A] lyrical meditation on life, love, and art in the Gilded Age. . . . Sargents Women abounds with dazzling characters in atmospheric settings. . . . As rich as [Sargents] portraits are, the textural evidence in which Ms. Lucey ensnares them is finer still. - Jane Kamensky, *Wall Street Journal* [Lucey] delivers the goods, disclosing the unhappy or colorful lives that Sargent sometimes hinted at but didnt spell out. . . . Sargents Women is a good read . . . [and its] chatty pleasures are considerable. - Michael Upchurch, *Boston Globe* Sargents Women has . . . a good deal to say about life among affluent women with brains and talents beyond the Victorian strictures of their time. . . . Lucey wisely concentrates her attention on these women who epitomized their class and times. - Bruce Jacobs, Watermark Books & Cafe Choosing four striking Sargent portraits of wealthy, cosmopolitan American women, Lucey vividly reveals the hidden truths of their tumultuous lives, while also succinctly telling the artists own intriguing story. . . . Luceys superlative group portrait, rendered in crystal-clear prose, is spring-fed by . . . her keen insights into what drove these women to break out of their gilded cages. - Booklist (starred review) [Luceys] narrative is engaging and elegant, set in a rich cultural and social framework that insightfully reflects the era. - Library Journal (starred review) Endlessly intriguing. . . . Lucey ably pulls these four compelling women out of obscurity with insight and infectious enthusiasm. - Publishers Weekly Perceptive . . . colorful, animated portraits sympathetically rendered. - Kirkus Reviews For as long as I can remember, I have stared into the eyes of the subjects in John Singer Sargents paintingsoften beautiful, young, seemingly unknowable womenand wondered who they were and what their lives had held. With her powerful and probing new book, Sargents Women, Donna Lucey has answered that haunting question, and the truth behind the paintings is far more stunning and fascinating than I had ever imagined. - Candice Millard, best-selling author of *Hero of the Empire*About the AuthorDonna M. Lucey is the author of the bestselling Archie and Amelie and other books. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, with her husband, writer Henry Wiencek. AudioFile Earphones Award winner Elizabeth Wiley is a seasoned actor, dialect coach, theater professor, and dedicated narrator. She brings over twenty-five years of award-winning acting and voice experience to the studio to create memorable, compelling storytelling.