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Condition: Wie neu. Erstausgabe. First Imprint. xi 378 Seiten Seiten und 8 Blatt mit 35 Abbildungen. Guter Zustand. Buchblock etwas verzogen. Seiten papierbedingt leicht gebräunt. Besitzerbemerkung auf dem Vorsatz. Aus dem Besitz der Gräfin Ledebur. The first biography of one of the most controversial figures in recent English letters. - John Middleton Murry (6 August 1889 12 March 1957) was an English writer. He was prolific, producing more than 60 books and thousands of essays and reviews on literature, social issues, politics, and religion during his lifetime. A prominent critic, Murry is best remembered for his association with Katherine Mansfield, whom he married as her second husband, in 1918, and his friendship with D.H. Lawrence and his friendship (and brief affair) with Frieda Lawrence. Following Mansfield's death, he edited her work. Early life: He was born in Peckham, London, the son of a civil servant. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and Brasenose College, Oxford. There he met the writer Joyce Cary, a lifelong friend. He met Katherine Mansfield at the end of 1911, through W. L. George. His intense relationship with her, her early death, and his subsequent allusions to it, shaped both his later life and the attitudes (often hostile) of others to him. Leonard Woolf in his memoirs called Murry "Pecksniffian". By 1933 his reputation "had touched bottom", and Rayner Heppenstall's short book of 1934, John Middleton Murry: A Study in Excellent Normality, could note that he was "the best-hated man of letters in the country". Editor: From 1911 to 1913, Murry was editor of the poetry magazine Rhythm. The Blue Review was a successor. In 1914 he met D. H. Lawrence, and became an important supporter. The next year they started a short-lived magazine together, The Signature. In 1931, after a complex evolution of the relationship, Murry wrote in Son of Woman one of the first and most influential posthumous assessments of Lawrence as a man. Medically certified as unfit for the military, with pleurisy and possible tuberculosis, during the war years he was part of the Garsington circle of Ottoline Morrell. In 1919, Murry became the editor of the Athenaeum, recently purchased by Arthur Rowntree. Under his editorship it was a literary review that featured work by T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Clive Bell, and other members of the Bloomsbury Group. It lasted until 1921. It had enthusiastic support from E. M. Forster, who later wrote that "Here at last was a paper that was a pleasure to read and an honour to write for, and which linked up literature and life". Its fate was to be merged into The Nation, which became The Nation and Athenaeum, in the period 1923 to 1930 edited by H. D. Henderson. In 1923 he became the founding editor of the influential periodical, The Adelphi (The New Adelphi, 1927-30), which involved associations with Jack Common and Max Plowman. It continued in various forms until 1948. It reflected his successive interests in Lawrence, an unorthodox Marxism, pacifism, and a return to the land. According to David Goldie, Murry and the Adelphi, and Eliot and the Criterion, were in an important rivalry by the mid-1920s, with competing definitions of literature, based respectively on romanticism allied to liberalism and a subjective approach, and a form of classicism allied to traditionalism and a religious attitude. In this contest, Goldie says, Eliot emerged a clear victor, in the sense that in the 1930s London Eliot had taken the centre of the critical stage. Critic He reviewed for the Westminster Gazatte and then the Times Literary Supplement, from 1912. Initially he was much influenced by the philosophy of Henri Bergson, which he disavowed in 1913. He was one of an identified group of post-World War I critics that included Richard Aldington, Robert Graves, Aldous Huxley, Herbert Read, and Edgell Rickword. Murry gave Huxley an editorial job at The Athenaeum. Murry led the charge against Georgian poetry. A leader in the 16 May 1919 edition of The Athenaeum was an early example of a reasoned attack against the Georgian style of verse; and Murry coupled this with an adversarial attitude to the London Mercury edited by J. C. Squire. He reviewed quite harshly Siegfried Sassoon's Counter-Attack in 1918, despite having helped him in 1917 to draft an anti-war piece for H. W. Massingham's The Nation. In-house, however, he was not master enough to award an essay competition prize to the then-unknown Herbert Read, over the wishes of George Saintsbury and Robert Bridges, who preferred the poet William Orton. F. R. Leavis admired and was influenced by Murry's early criticism. Later he was to attack Murry viciously, in the pages of Scrutiny. On Romanticism: Murry gave his philosophy its fullest expression in his writings on Keats and Shakespeare and in an ambitiously titled volume, God: An Introduction to the Science of Metabiology. There, picking up certain concepts from his acquaintance George Santayana, Murry describes the project of Romanticism as one of inner exploration: "To discover that within myself which I *must obey, to gain some awareness of the law which operates in the organic world of the internal world, to feel this internal world as an organic whole working out its own destiny according to some secret vital principle, to know which acts and utterances are a liberation from obstacles and an accession of strength, to acknowledge secret loyalties which one cannot deny without impoverishment and starvation -- this is to possess one's soul indeed, and it is not easy either to do or to explain." The upshot of this discovery results in the highest degree of ethical awareness, "an immediate knowledge of what I am and may not do." The awareness of one being "really alone" in the universe, as he put it, marks the final point of discovery which is followed by the upward ascent to spiritual life. Murry vividly narrates this exploration as a spiritual conversion -- what he describes as a "desolation" followed by "il.

Trade paperback. Condition: Good. Later printing. The format is approximately 5.375 inches by 8 inches. xv, [3], 973, [1] pages. Maps. Chronology. Illustrations. Source Notes. Select Bibliography. Index. Some cover wear. William Raymond Manchester (April 1, 1922 - June 1, 2004) was an American author, biographer, and historian. He was the author of 18 books which have been translated into over 20 languages. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal and the Abraham Lincoln Literary Award. In 1947, Manchester went to work as a reporter for The Baltimore Sun, where he met journalist H. L. Mencken, who became his friend and mentor, and also became the subject of Manchester's master's thesis and first book, Disturber of the Peace. The biography, published in 1951, profiles Mencken, the self-described "conservative anarchist" who made his mark as a writer, editor, and political pundit in the 1920s. Manchester's wartime experiences formed the basis for his very personal account of the Pacific Theater, Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War. Manchester also wrote of World War II in several other books, including a three-part biography, The Last Lion, of Winston Churchill. Manchester also wrote a biography of General Douglas MacArthur, American Caesar. His best-selling book, The Death of a President (1967), is a detailed account of the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, who had been the subject of an earlier book by Manchester. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill is a trilogy of biographies covering the life of Winston Churchill. The first two were published in the 1980s by author and historian William Manchester, who died while working on the last volume. However, before his death, Manchester selected Paul Reid to complete it, and the final volume was published in November 2012. Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 was placed on Time magazine's top 100 non-fiction books written in English since 1923. Derived from a newspaper review found on-line: Winston Churchill applied the same characteristics as a schoolboy that made him a pain in the side of Adolf Hitler. Young Winston was stubborn and defiant in school, even when threatened with failure, expulsion and his father's wrath. Even though a lonely boy, Churchill was Churchill. It is only one of the many insights in William Manchester's epic, "The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill Vol. I: Visions of Glory: 1874-1932." It takes readers from Churchill's birth to the British descendants of the Dukes of Marlborough and an American mom up until middle age and what would be for many public men the end of the career, but for Churchill is the entrance into his "Wilderness" years. Manchester opens with a nearly 50-page preamble on Churchill's life and character. He pens what is arguably the best 50 pages on Churchill's life in its entirety. He captures the multi-faceted essence of Churchill. The history flows into the meeting, courtship and marriage of Winston's parents, then Winston's birth, his lonely childhood seeking the affection of his socially busy and well-connected parents, his hardships upon being sent off to school, showing signs of potential genius though often considered unruly by his school masters. Churchill moves from school to the military where he performs the nearly impossible feat then and now of juggling being a soldier, a journalist and a neophyte politician simultaneously â " fighting in, reporting on and politicizing the same military endeavors. Churchill, with help from his mother and her influential male friends, was able to continue doing almost anything he liked. Churchill became known for his writing, his military adventures and his political stances which could be courageous and outrageous, but often more well reasoned than not. His political career was nearly destroyed during World War I â " and many politicians would have never been able to survive, let alone bounce back and thrive. As First Lord of the Admiralty, Churchill was blamed then and often still for the massive loss of life in the Dardanelles and Gallipoli. Manchester writes that Churchill should not shoulder the brunt of the blame that it belongs to others or should at least be distributed more equally among others. Churchill lost his position over the British navy. He was shunned. He received command over a small number soldiers in the trenches on the Western Front. He returned to politics. He survived then began to thrive again. Manchester writes with wit and eloquence. He writes with a novelist's eye, the historian's precision, the analyst's insight and the newspaper columnist's willingness to state opinion.

Zettel. Ausschnitt aus Albumblatt, von Michael Dante mit blauem Stift signiert mit eigenhändigem Zusatz "Eileen: Best wishes" /// Autogramm Autograph signiert signed signee /// Michael Dante (born Ralph Vitti; September 2, 1931) is an American actor and former professional minor league baseball player. Dante was born Ralph Vitti in Stamford, Connecticut. Growing up, he would sneak into a local movie theater with his friends to watch westerns. "I grew up wanting to be the sidekick of The Lone Ranger and wanting to follow my heroes", Dante told a reporter in 2006. He was a shortstop on the Stamford High School baseball team, then played for "The Advocate All-Stars" team which won a 1949 New England baseball championship. After graduating from high school, Dante signed a bonus contract with the Boston Braves. He used his $6,000 bonus to buy his family a four-door Buick with whitewalls. Career During spring training with the former Washington Senators, Dante took drama classes at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. Bandleader Tommy Dorsey arranged a screen test for him at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. His first film, Somebody Up There Likes Me, was released in 1956. He changed his name at the urging of studio boss Jack L. Warner, who thought "Vitti" would not fit well on theater marquees. Warner suggested some first names, from which the actor picked "Michael". He chose the last name "Dante" because it had been used by some relatives. Dante has appeared in 30 films and 150 television shows. He spent seven years in supporting roles under contract to three major studios at once: MGM, Warner Brothers and Twentieth Century Fox. He considers his best performances the role that he played in Killer Instinct on the CBS television series Desilu Playhouse, along with his roles in the movies Westbound (1959), Seven Thieves (1960) and Winterhawk (1975). His other film credits include Fort Dobbs (1958), Kid Galahad (1962), Operation Bikini (1963), The Naked Kiss (1964), Apache Rifles (1964), Harlow (1965), Arizona Raiders (1965), Willard (1971), That's the Way of the World (1975), The Farmer (1977), Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident (1978), Beyond Evil (1980), Return from the River Kwai (1989), and Cage (1989). Dante appeared on a few ABC/Warner Brothers series, including the westerns Colt .45 and Maverick. He appeared a couple times on the former, starring Wayde Preston. Dante and Forrest Lewis portrayed Davey Lewis and Willy Ford, respectively, in the 1957 episode "The $3,000 Bullet". Dante then played the role of Ab Saunders in the 1958 episode "The Deserters", with Angie Dickinson as Laura Meadows and Myron Healey as an unnamed fur trader, and directed by Leslie H. Martinson.[2] On Maverick he portrayed the killer Turk Mason in the 1957 episode "The Third Rider", with Jack Kelly. Another ABC-WB series he appeared on was the crime drama, Bourbon Street Beat, with Andrew Duggan, on the syndicated adventure series, Rescue 8, starring Jim Davis and Lang Jeffries, and in three episodes of CBS's The Texan, starring Rory Calhoun. Dante made two guest appearances on Perry Mason starring Raymond Burr. In 1959 he played Arthur Manning in "The Case of the Dangerous Dowager", and in 1965 he played murder victim Douglas Kelland in "The Case of the Feather Cloak." A frequent extra on the original Star Trek television series, he was cast in the role of "Maab" in the 1967 episode, "Friday's Child" alongside Julie Newmar. Dante has appeared at Star Trek conventions. In 1969, he played Clay Squires, a bitter young half-breed man, in the episode "Long Night at Fort Lonely" on the syndicated Death Valley Days, with Robert Taylor (actor) as Ben Cotterman and June Dayton as Cotterman's wife, Rachel[3] and in 1972 he played a harried TV commercial director in My Three Sons. In 1974 he played Julio Tucelli in The Six Million Dollar Man episode, Dr. Wells Is Missing. Dante also has recurring roles on the television serials Days of Our Lives and General Hospital. In the 1970s, Dante met John Wayne, whom he watched on screen as a child. Wayne had seen Dante in Winterhawk and asked him to co-host a charity event in Newport Beach, California. That started a friendship between the two actors, and they co-hosted other events until Wayne's death in 1979. Michael Dante is currently the host of a syndicated radio talk show, On Deck, previously known as the Michael Dante Celebrity Talk Show on which he interviews some of Hollywood's biggest stars. His program guests have included Milton Berle, Tony Curtis, Ron Ely, Bryant Gumbel, Stack Pierce, Connie Stevens and Stella Stevens. [4] An avid golfer, he once hosted the annual Michael Dante Celebrity Golf Tournament, a charitable fund-raiser held annually in Palm Springs, California, beginning in 1991. In 2006, Dante told an interviewer that he had written a script for a sequel to Winterhawk and was trying to get funding for the projected movie. Awards The Silver Spur Award (called the "Golden Globe of the Western film and television genre") presented by Reel Cowboys The Golden Boot Award ("the Oscar of Westerns") Southern California Motion Picture Council Award for the 'Best of the Best' in the Motion Picture Industry Wall of Fame Honoree - Stamford High School - Stamford, Connecticut Spirit of the West Award by Wild West Gazette/Bison Western Museum Palm Springs Film Festival Award for the Sammy Fuller classic film The Naked Kiss 1994 - Golden Palm Star on the Walk of Stars[5] Apacheland Days, Apache Junction, Arizona - Guest of Honor - Western boot prints in cement - Superstition Mountain Museum /// Standort Wimregal PKis-Box5-U013 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 10.

Various. Condition: Very good. This archive consists of five items: 1) an autographed program from the McGuire Sisters' 1960 engagement at the Las Vegas Desert Inn where Phyllis McGuire first met Sam Giancana, 2) a press photos of Phyllis when she testified at the 1965 Federal Grand Jury investigating Giancana, 3) a press photo of Giancana at the same investigation, 4) a 1962 postcard of Frank Sinatra's Neva-Cal Lodge where a McGuire-Giancana rendezvous ignited that investigation, and 5) a lobby card from the 1961 Noonan & Marshall film Double Trouble (released as Swingin' Away). The wholesome McGuire Sisters singing act hit the bigtime after they nearly blew the needle off the applause-o-meter during an Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts television show in December 1952. By the time the trio headlined at the Las Vegas Desert Inn along with the Noonan & Marshall comedy team in June 1960, they had a string of gold records including two #1 hits, Sincerely and Sugartime. While performing there, Phyllis caught the eye of the unstable, vicious, and violent boss of the Chicago underworld, Sam 'Momo' or 'Moony' Giancana. It is unclear how the couple were introduced, possibly by Frank Sinatra or a casino pit boss. Regardless, the pair hit it off and began a relationship that, except for a few gossipy scandal-sheet photos, was hidden from the public, although Phyllis's sisters and long-time friend Peter Marshall, at that time a comedic straight-man and fellow headliner, were well aware. Long afterward in a Barbara Walters interview, Phyllis related that "When I met him I did not know who he was, and . . . I didn't find out until sometime later really who he was, and [by then] I was already in love." Perhaps that realization came when in the early 1960s when the couple traveled to Chicago, and they were met at the airport by the FBI who coerced Phyllis into an interview where she was either unable or unwilling to divulge anything about Giancana's illegal activities. However, as other agents waited with Sam while the interview was conducted, he exploded, "I know all about the Kennedys and Phyllis knows a lot more about the Kennedys and one of these days we are going to tell all." It is likely Giancana was boasting about his well-documented (but vehemently contested by Camelot apologists) vote-fixing efforts in West Virginia and Illinois in 1960 that gave John F. Kennedy the presidency over Richard M. Nixon. Some, including the premier investigative journalist of his time, Jack Anderson, have claimed that the deal, probably cut by the family patriarch, Joseph, whose long-time mob-related investments built the family's fortune, required the future president to turn a blind-eye underworld operations in Chicago and allow Giancana to assassinate Fidel Castro who had shut down his lucrative Cuban operations. Later, Frank Church's Senate investigation discovered that follow-on secret Kennedy-Giancano discussions were conducted using messages passed between the president and the mobster by their shared mistress, Judith Campbell Exner. Yet, the above information was not known until later, and the couple's romantic relationship didn't explode in the press until Giancana's visits to Phyllis's chalet, used while she performed at Frank Sinatra's Neva-Cal Lodge (which he may have bought with the assistance of Joseph Kennedy), were discovered by a disabled state gaming commissioner in 1963. By that time, Giancana had been placed on the Nevada blacklist that forbade known gangsters from entering casinos. Upon his discovery, Giancana exploded at the "crippled Son of a Bitch" who confronted him, and the couple's romance could no longer be hidden after Sinatra was forced to give-up his gambling resort and sell his interest in the landmark Las Vegas hotel, The Sands. Worse for Giancana, in an apparent double-cross, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, the president's brother, directed the FBI to investigate his Chicago Unit perhaps, as suggested by several historians and journalists, in an attempt to intimidate the underworld into keeping the vote-fixing and Castro deals under wraps. After President Kennedy was assassinated, the federal probe into Giancana deepened to include the possibility that he ordered the 'hit' as pay-back for the Kennedys not fulfilling their part of the mutual deal. When Giancana and Phyllis were subpoenaed by an investigative grand jury in 1965, both remained mum. Although Giancana was granted immunity, he still refused to testify and spent a year in prison for contempt of court, after which he moved to Mexico. Phyllis returned to sing with her sisters, however the damage to the trio was already done. The McGuire Sisters were essentially blackballed by the entertainment world, and they stopped performing in 1968. After Giancana returned to the United States, he was again subpoenaed but murdered before he could appear in court; one shot to the back of his head as he was cooking a meal of sausage and peppers, then five more into his mouth. Others connected to Giancana also met untimely deaths. Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, perhaps into an incinerator or stadium foundation. Warren Reynolds was shot in his head just before he was scheduled to testify. Two reporters covering Giancana were murdered. One potential witness was found hanging in her cell shortly after being arrested for disorderly conduct, and, the dismembered body of Johnny Roselli was found stuffed into an oil barrel floating off the coast of Florida. The McGuire sisters finally returned to the oldies show circuit in 1986. Peter Marshall and Tommy Noonan split after their movie bombed, however Marshall found immense success on television as the host of Hollywood Squares for 17 years. . (For more information, see "The McGuire Sisters win Godfrey's Talent Scouts. . ." at Youtube, "Sam Giancana" at the Spartacus Educational website, "Phyllis McGuire, Singing Star and Sam Giancana Paramour Dies. . ." at the Mob Museum website, Nesteroff's interview of Peter L. Marshall at the Clas.

First Edition / Original Edition. Small Octavo (12.7 cm x 18.8 cm). 15 pages. Original Softcover, stapled with cover-illustration by Meredith Starr, monogrammed in the plate "M.S. 1931". The booklet rests loosely inside the original softcover wrappers. The staples a little rusty. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. This pamphlet is of extreme scarcity ! The last two pages of the publication are basically an advertising for the retreat center which Meredith Starr established in 1931 at East Challacombe, North Devon (a couple of miles from Combe Martin), to where he invited Meher Baba in order to come and meet westerners. In his preface, [Roland] Meredith Starr writes: "The Way of Escape" is a symbolic poem that deicts some of the complexes of modern life, particularly those responsible for the cleavage between thought and reality ! The ways of Escape, the path leading to the North, represents the attainment of synthesis (physical, mental, emotional and spiritual maturity) in a world disintegrated by analysis. Neither realism nor idealism can satisfy the needs of the present age. Both are necessary and both must be integrated in a Higher Consciousness. In this connection the remarks of Jung in "Psychological Types" concerning the symbol will repay serious investigation. A symbol is composed of elements that are both real and unreal, and hence can bridge the gulf between and illusion. In the poem this Higher Consciousness is indicated by the description of Alaska and by the utterances of Christ - not the Christ of dogmatic religion, but the living Christ of universal love and wisdom immanent in every human heart and personified by the great religious teachers of Mankind - Combe Martin, Meredith Starr". Roland Meredith Starr (born Herbert Close; 29 December 1890 13 December 1971) was a British occultist and poet. He is credited with introducing Meher Baba to the West. Starr was born in Prestbury House, Hampton, at Richmond in the County of Middlesex, England to well-to-do land owning parents ("landed proprietors") William Brooks Close and Mary Baker Brooks Close. When Starr was one year old his parents separated and he was raised by his mother. He received his education at Winchester College in Hampshire. Starr was a psychologist, homeopath, occultist and an editorial writer. He was also the principal player in bringing Meher Baba to the West for the first time at the start of the 1930s, although he himself did not remain a follower for very long. In the early 20th century, Starr wrote for The Occult Review, an illustrated monthly journal containing articles and correspondence by many notable occultists of the day, including Aleister Crowley, Arthur Edward Waite, W. L. Wilmshurst, Franz Hartmann, Florence Farr, and Herbert Stanley Redgrove. He probably changed his name to Meredith Starr when he was twenty in relation to his work as a reviewer and contributor for The Occult Review. He also wrote for Aleister Crowley's publication The Equinox, publishing Memory of Love (under the name "Herbert Close"), VII, 291 - Vol 7, in 1911. Meredith Starr met Meher Baba in Toka, India on 30 June 1928. In 1931 Starr established a retreat center at East Challacombe, North Devon (a couple of miles from Combe Martin), where he invited Meher Baba to come and meet westerners. It was at the Devon retreat that many of Meher Baba's lasting followers from Europe and the United States first met Baba. Meredith was famously lacking in a sense of humor and had a particular sense of how spiritual conduct should be, thus enforcing strong codes of serious contemplative conduct that made even Meher Baba uncomfortable. Yet he is considered to have played a central role in introducing Meher Baba to the western world. In December 1932, Starr grew irritated with Meher Baba and wrote to him, "Give me either the 400 pounds you owe me or illumination; otherwise, I will leave you and expose you as a fraud!" He then did leave Meher Baba. The money he referred to was money he had spent hosting Meher Baba at his retreat in Devon. Starr disbanded the Devon retreat and sold the property a year and a half later. He later organized 'nature cure and scientific relaxation' courses at Frogmore Hall, Herts. He was married firstly on 1 March 1917 at Paddington Register Office to the Honourable Mary Grey, daughter of the 8th Earl of Stamford, by whom he had two sons. He was divorced by decree nisi 10 April 1930, on his admission of an adulterous relationship of four years' duration with Margaret Ross of East Challacombe, Combe Martin, Devon. He is buried in the Municipal Cemetery, Kirkley, Suffolk. (Wikipedia) Sprache: english.