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“Through these travels and the photographs, I got to love the United States more than I could have in any other way.” — Jack DelanoAmid the ravages of the Great Depression, the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) was first founded in 1935 to address the country’s rural poverty. Its efforts focused on improving the lives of sharecroppers, tenants, and very poor landowning farmers, with resettlement and collectivization programs, as well as modernized farming methods. In a parallel documentation program, the FSA hired a number of photographers and writers to record the lives of the rural poor and “introduce America to Americans.”This book records the full reach of the FSA program from 1935 to 1943, honoring its vigor and commitment across subjects, states, and stylistic preferences. The photographs are arranged into four broad regional sections but otherwise allowed to speak for themselves—to provide individual impressions as much as they cumulatively build an indelible survey of a nation.The images are both color and black-and-white, and span the complete spetrum of American rural life. They show us convicts, cotton workers, kids, and relocated workers on the road. We see subjects victim to the elements of nature as much as to the vagaries of the global economic market. We find the work of such perceptive, sensitive photographers as Marion Post Wolcott, Jack Delano, Russell Lee, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, and Dorothea Lange, and read their own testimonies to the FSA project and their encounters with their subjects, including Lange’s worn, weather-beaten and iconic Migrant Mother.What unites all of the pictures is a commitment to the individuality and dignity of each subject, as much as to the witness they bear to this particular period of the American past. The subjects are entrenched in the hardships of their historical lot as much as they are caught in universal cycles of growing, playing, eating, aging, and dying. Yet they face the viewer with what is utterly their own: a unique, irreplaceable, often unforgettable presence.About the seriesBibliotheca Universalis — Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe!

Im Jahre 1920 werden Nicola Sacco und Bartolomeo Vanzetti, 2 italienische Einwanderer mit Verbindungen zu anarchistischen Kreisen, in Massachusetts wegen Raubes verhaftet und in einem umstrittenen Prozess zum Tode verurteilt. Viele Zeitgenossen gehen davon aus, dass an den beiden aufgrund ihrer politischen Gesinnung ein Exempel statuiert werden sollte. 7 Jahre später wird trotz weltweiter Proteste das Todesurteil vollstreckt. - Sinclairs Roman über diesen Justizfall wurde 1928, also ein Jahr nach der Vollstreckung, erstmals veröffentlicht und sorgte für einiges Aufsehen. Die Neuübersetzung des Klassikers bei Manesse besticht optisch und inhaltlich. Sehr ausführliche Anmerkungen zur Übersetzung, ein Nachwort sowie eine editorische Notiz runden die Neuausgabe des Werkes ab

During the 1960s, Dennis Hopper carried a camera everywhere—on film sets and locations, at parties, in diners, bars and galleries, driving on freeways and walking on political marches. He photographed movie idols, pop stars, writers, artists, girlfriends, and complete strangers. Along the way he captured some of the most intriguing moments of his generation with a keen and intuitive eye. A reluctant icon at the epicenter of that decade’s cultural upheaval, Hopper documented the likes of Tina Turner in the studio, Andy Warhol at his first West Coast show, Paul Newman on set, and Martin Luther King during the Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.From a selection of photographs compiled by Hopper and gallerist Tony Shafrazi, this extensive volume, finally back in print in a new edition, distills the essence of Hopper’s prodigious photographic career. Also included are introductory essays by Shafrazi and legendary West Coast art pioneer Walter Hopps, as well as an extensive biography and new afterword by journalist Jessica Hundley. With excerpts from Victor Bockris’s interviews of Hopper’s famous subjects, friends, and family, this volume revives an unprecedented exploration of the life and mind of one of America’s most fascinating personalities.

Homage To Catalonia Is George Orwell's Personal Account Of His Experiences And Observations Fighting For The Poum Militia Of The Republican Army During The Spanish Civil War. The War Was One Of The Defining Events Of His Political Outlook And A Significant Part Of What Led Him To Write In 1946, Every Line Of Serious Work That I Have Written Since 1936 Has Been Written, Directly Or Indirectly, Against Totalitarianism And For Democratic Socialism, As I Understand It. The First Edition Was Published In The United Kingdom In 1938. The Book Was Not Published In The United States Until February 1952, When It Appeared With An Influential Preface By Lionel Trilling. The Only Translation Published In Orwell's Lifetime Was Into Italian, In December 1948. A French Translation By Yvonne Davet—with Whom Orwell Corresponded, Commenting On Her Translation And Providing Explanatory Notes—in 1938–39, Was Not Published Until Five Years After Orwell's Death.

The Young Hornblower - a truly formidable force in His Majesty's Service The seventeen-year-old Hornblower became notorious as soon as he stepped on board ship - as the midshipman who was seasick in Spithead. But he was soon to gain his sea legs. Amid battle, action and adventure he proves himself time and time again - courageous in danger, resourceful in moments of difficulty and decisive in times of trouble. The reader stands right beside him as he prepares to fight his first duel, feels the heat as he battles to control a blazing ship and shares his horror as he experiences for the first time the panic of the Plague. This omnibus edition contains: Mr Midshipman Hornblower Lieutenant Hornblower Hornblower and the 'Hotspur'