In Their Own Words

This is the story of General Capron's rise to prominence in the United States during the late 19th century and the contribution he made to the modernization of Japan during the Meiji restoration. Returning to the United States in 1875,a largely forgotten man, it took half a century for him to be rediscovered and elevated to a place of honor in Japan.

This biography of the great 19th-century actor Joseph Jefferson uses his career as a means of examining the stage of his age.

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) set out to challenge the proprieties of his Victorian contemporaries in every way: from the explicit sexuality and blasphemy of his early poetry to his political radicalism and his enthusiasms for such then uncanonical writers as Blake, Shelley and the Elizabethan dramatists surrounding Shakespeare. This edition gives new details about virtually all his literary undertakings (including his publishing income) and provides much new biographical information.

For the first time too the texts of Swinburne's letters to and from his cousin Mary Gordon Leith appear, letters often written in a transparent code and using fictional personae that illuminate and intensify the curiously erotic, even flagellatory, relationship that appears to have existed between them.

Among Swinburne's correspondents were such writers and artists as John Morley, Simeon Solomon, Lord Tennyson, Ford Madox Brown, Edward Burne-Jones, the Rossettis (Dante Gabriel, Christina, and William Michael) and William Morris. Other correspondents represented include Swinburne's companion Theodore Watts-Dunton, his publisher Chatto and Windus, his mother, sisters, and aunt, and such friends as John Nichol and George Powell.

The appearance of these three volumes moves Swinburne studies a significant step forward. They will no doubt stimulate even further the accelerating critical and scholarly interest in a notorious poet whose works even today are sometimes controversial enough that the editor, working in Virginia, needed permission from the state to quote and annotate some of Swinburne's poems and letters with excerpts from his unpublished erotica.

This book is the first scholarly biography of Geoffrey Francis Fisher (1887-1972), 99th archbishop of Canterbury. Fisher's was a pivotal archiepiscopate. The problems and initiatives of his tenure foreshadowed the major events in Anglican church history and theology in the decades that followed. His meeting with Pope John XXIII in 1960 marked the first time that an archbishop of Canterbury had visited the Holy See since the fourteenth century. And Fisher was the key person in building up the modern Anglican Communion. His work anticipated the transformation of the British Empire from a far-flung imperial domain into a commonwealth of equal states. His frequent travels all over the globe helped to make the Anglican Communion an experienced reality for many Anglicans and Episcopalians outside Britain. The senior prelate whom millions of people around the world watched as he crowned Queen Elizabeth II in June 1953, Fisher has been referred to as the last great Establishment archbishop of Canterbury. After him, British society and the churches were forced to change. Worthy of attention are such subjects as Fisher's intervention in the Suez Crisis and his involvement in debates on the use of atomic weapons. Fisher's time in London, first as bishop of London (1939-45) and then as archbishop of Canterbury, was a period of war, devastation, and rebuilding in the capital city and the nation. How well did Fisher prepare the Church of England for what followed? What were the strengths and weaknesses of his approach to the task of fortifying the church for the future? This biography provides an engaging sketch and a critical assessment of Geoffrey Fisher's important career.

Walking to Omega: Tales of A Peacenik Carpenter is a memoir of a Great Books education put to use. Our hero cofounds an experimental college with campuses in India and Japan, quits academia for a general contractor's license, does civil disobedience with Daniel Ellsberg, becomes a community journalist, produces and hosts a public affairs TV show for fourteen years, persists as peace provocateur. Social thought, marching with banners.

This book is a photobiography of Rui Barbosa, one of the most important political and intellectual Brazilian leaders of the late XIX and early XX centuries.

This book is an in-depth biographical and historical study of one of 1950s baseball's most intriguing and enigmatic figures: righthander "Sal the Barber" Maglie, a pitcher whose terrifying high-inside fastball shaved batters' chins and gave him his nickname. Maglie projected such an intimidating image that both ballplayers and sportswriters of his time found something downright demonic about him. The book covers both his professional career and his personal life.

This book tells of the life of the subject army officer who served in the so-called "Mormon War," various Indian Wars, the Civil War, the Lincoln County War and the "Crow War." He was physically strong, brave, often at odds with his fellow officers, admired by his troops, and he drank too much. He rose from 1st Lieutenant in the 10th Infantry to Colonel of the First U.S. Cavalry, and was promoted to brigadier general on the retired list. His remains lie in Arlington National Cemetery under a tombstone of his own design.

The biography reexamines the relationship among Morris, his wife, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The author describes how Morris's childhood attachment to his sister became a lifelong obsession, the driving force in his poetry, and the cause of his failure in marriage.

Harold Bloom has written, "John Le Bourgeois ventures a radical reinterpretation of the marriage between William Morris and Jane Burden, whose adulterous relationship to Dante Gabriel Rossetti always has been mediated for us by his poems and paintings devoted to her. Le Bourgeois convincingly suggests that Morris himself was culpable, because of his repressed passion for his sister Emma. Le Bourgeois is responsible and poignant, and has altered my understanding of this tangled web."

The author of this memoir is a retired economic geologist who was privileged to work for several mining companies in the fields of metals and energy. He was also employed by the Illinois State Geological Survey and by the Foreign Section of the US Geological Survey and taught one year at the Wisconsin School of Mines between jobs.

His first love was minerals exploration and he was very successful as he found a major reserve of zinc in SW Wisconsin, a very good uranium mine in New Mexico, and several large strip coal reserves in the Western and Central United States. His ability as an airplane pilot served him well, particularly in his work on western coals. The variety of his work experience makes for numerous interesting stories and many insightful geological observations. He was about to embark on a career as a pitcher in professional baseball when he received a scholarship to the University of Chicago and discovered geology.

In this biography, Beisner paints a portrait of the secretary of state who sought both order and victory in the Cold War.

Gilbert White, SB'32, SM'34, PhD'42,--father of floodplain management and the national flood insurance program, and founder of the interdisciplinary science of natural hazards--has educated the nation and the world on how to change the ways we manage water resources and mitigate natural hazards. With an unending list of contributions to the scientific community and with an impressive array of awards too long to mention, it is not surprising that Gilbert White is an intellectually remarkable man. What is less obvious is Gilbert's very human approach to life. He worked best at resolving differences behind the scenes, holding a deep belief in the dignity and worth of each individual and the richness of home and family. He believed with a passion that any person can make a significant difference in this very messy world. It takes only the determination to live a life that matters. This book is both biography and memoir. It is a tribute to a scientist who has changed the scientific community and the world.

Since the 1970s, Louis Bird, a distinguished Aboriginal storyteller and historian, has been recording the stories and memories of Omushkego (Swampy Cree) communities along western Hudson and James Bays. In nine chapters, he presents here some of the most vivid legends and historical stories from his collection, casting new light on his people's history, culture, and values. Working with the editors and other contributors to provide background and context for the stories, he illuminates their many levels of meaning, and brings forward the value system and worldview that underlie their teachings.

This is a book of oral traditions and histories brought into print, with contexts and notes supplied, and a beginning and closing chapter of perspectives and reflections by Omushkego (Swampy) Cree author Louis Bird, to complement the stories.

Henry Sidgwick is one of the great intellectual figures of 19th century Britain. He was first and foremost a great moral philosopher, whose masterwork Methods of Ethics is still widely studied today. But he was many other things besides, writing on religion, economics, politics, education and literature. He was deeply involved in the founding of first college for women at the University of Cambridge. He was a leading figure in parapsychology. He was also much concerned with the sexual politics of his close friend John Addington Symonds, a pioneer of gay studies. Through his famous student, G.E. Moore, a direct line can be traced from Sidgwick and his circle to the Bloomsbury group. Bart Schultz has written a magisterial overview of this great Victorian sage--the first comprehensive study, offering quite new critical perspectives on the life and the work. Sidgwick's ethical work is revealed as a necessarily guarded statement of his deepest philosophical convictions and doubts. All other areas of his writings are covered and presented in the context of the late Victorian culture of imperialism. ' This biography, or 'Goethean reconstruction' will be eagerly sought out by readers interested in philosophy, Victorian studies, political theory, the history of ideas, educational theory, the history of psychology and gender and gay studies. Bart Schultz is fellow and lecturer in the Division of the Humanities and special programs coordinator in the Graham School of General Studies at the University of Chicago.

This is the story of Colt Terry's amazing military career. From joining the Army underage as a 16-year-old private to becoming one of the initial instructors when Special Forces was first formed and on through his 23 years as a Green Beret officer. He served five tours in combat, two in Korea, one there behind enemy lines, and three tours in Vietnam. It includes his time serving under the direction of the CIA and his many close calls with death. In addition to being a "ripping good read," as one historian said, this book comes to life with 30 photos that punctuate Colt's amazing experiences. Told from the unique perspective of an infantry soldier, Colt himself.

This definitive edition of T. S. Eliot's masterpiece presents a new and authoritative version of the poem, along with all the essays Eliot wrote as he was composing The Waste Land, seven of them never before published in book form. The volume is enriched with period photographs and a London map of locations mentioned in the poem.

Featured in the book are Lawrence Rainey's groundbreaking account of how The Waste Land came to be composed, a history of the reactions of admirers and critics, and full annotations to the poem and Eliot's essays. The edition transforms our understanding of one of the greatest modernist writers and the magnificent poem that became a landmark in literary history.

This groundbreaking book of literary detective work alters our understanding of T. S. Eliot's poetic masterpiece, The Waste Land. Lawrence Rainey not only resolves longstanding mysteries surrounding the composition of the poem but also overturns traditional interpretations of the poem that have prevailed for more than eighty years. He shines new light on Eliot's greatest achievement and on the poem's place in the modern canon.

Far from the austere and sober monument to neoclassicism that admirers have praised, The Waste Land turns out to be something quite different: something grim and wild, unruly and intractable, violent and shocking and radically indeterminate, yet also deeply compassionate. Rainey looks at how Eliot went about writing the poem and at the sequence in which he composed the parts. Arriving at new insights into the poet's intentions, Rainey unsettles tradition-bound views of the poem and shows us that The Waste Land is even stranger and more startling than we knew.

A life of one of the most influential justices of the Supreme Court of Canada. In addition to serving for ten years on the Supreme Court of Canada, Emmett Hall conducted the royal commission on health services, which led to the establishment of Canada's health-care system.

A narrative biography of Thomas Posey (1750-1818), a Virginia-born neighbor of George Washington, who served with distinction in the American Revolution and later settled on the western frontier, where he served as lieutenant-governor of Kentucky, U.S. senator from Louisiana, and territorial governor of Indiana during its transition to statehood.

This collection, the first time that Lytton Strachey's letters have been published together, offers a great deal of new material on the social, political and sexual lives of Strachey and the Bloomsbury Group.

This volume details the intimate exchange between a man and woman, deeply in love, but also occasionally capable of deeply divisive quarrels. Thus an utterly unique glimpse is provided of actual married life, from the perspective of each sex and played against wartime adventures and postwar life at the University of Chicago.

This is the first full biography ever written of Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge, youngest and, arguably, favorite son of King George III. It is the thesis of this biography that of the seven surviving sons, Adolphus was most successful at internalizing the kings concept of royal duty, which enabled him to live a purposeful and productive life in a time of immense technological, political, and social change. It documents a multitude of facts long buried in archives and newspapers. Includes many illustrations.