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Hyland's portrait of Rodgers (1902-79) begins with his childhood in an affluent Jewish family living in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan. During college years at Columbia University and early work on the amateur circuit and Broadway, Rodgers entered into a historic collaboration with the lyricist Lorenz Hart. The team produced a dozen popular shows and such enduring songs as "The Lady Is a Tramp." Rodgers' next partnership, with Oscar Hammerstein...
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This is the story of the Golden Age of American popular music, and a celebration of the enduring melodies and colorful life stories of five of this century's most engaging songwriters: Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers, with a fond bow in the direction of Victor Herbert and George M. Cohan. Author William G. Hyland provides an expert analysis of trends in popular songwriting during the first half of this...
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In this examination of Clinton's foreign policy - the first such book to cover all the global focal points of his administration to date - William G. Hyland shows the effects of combining this confusion with Clinton's unique personality characteristics. His first term was marked, in the author's analysis, by murky policy, unrealistic goals, and the mishandling of several crises.
By the end of that term he learned some hard lessons, was able to alter...
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Hyland examines the tense 50-year power struggle between the communist world and the West, covering Yalta and Potsdam, Korea and Vietnam, the missile crisis in Cuba and the Solidarity movement in Poland, and the Strategic Arms Limitation treaties. He traces the cold war through its various stages of confrontation, containment, and conciliation, and explains why in the mid-1980s, the conflict began to diminish and the world began to change. ISBN 0-8129-1871-1:...