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  • The Rose Man of Sing Sing

    A True Tale of Life, Murder, and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Journalism

    Series series Communications and Media Studies
    Today, seventy-three years after his death, journalists still tell tales of Charles E. Chapin. As city editor of Pulitzer’s New York Evening World , Chapin was the model of the take-no-prisoners newsroom tyrant: he drove reporters relentlessly—and kept his paper in the center ring of the circus of big-city journalism. From the Harry K. Thaw trial to the sinking of the Titanic , Chapin set the pace ... Read more

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  • Historical Dictionary of Utopianism

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series
    Utopian thinking embraces fictional descriptions of how to create a better (but not a perfect) alternative way of life as well as intentional communities (that is, groups of people leading lives in small communities for their own betterment and the betterment of others). The first edition almost exclusively dealt with the intentional-community side of utopianism; this second edition offers a much ... Read more

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  • Historical Dictionary of the United States Navy

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest
    The United States Navy has evolved in the last century and a half from humble and often frustrating beginnings during and after the Revolutionary War to become the strongest navy in the world with responsibilities that span the globe. The story of the Navy from its birth through the Civil War and other 19th century conflicts through its victories of World War I and World War II and down to the ... Read more

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  • The A to Z of Utopianism

    Series series The A to Z Guide Series
    This reference contains more than 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on utopian thought and experimentation that span the centuries from ancient times to the present. The text not only covers utopian communities worldwide, but also its ideas from the well known such as those expounded in Thomas More's Utopia and the ideas of philosophers and reformers from ancient times, the Middle Ages, the ... Read more

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