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A Rose for Mary: The Hunt for the Real Boston Strangler

8 reviews
Casey Sherman

Northeastern, 2003

A GREAT READ
I'M A HUGE DENNIS LEHANE FAN & PICKED UP THIS BOOK BASED ON LEHANE'S RECOMMENDATION. I LOVED IT! IT WAS A FAST MOVING BOOK THAT READ LIKE A MYSTERY NOVEL. MYSTERY FANS SHOULD GOBBLE THIS ONE UP.

Convoy To Auschwitz: Women of the French Resistance (Women's Life Writings from Around the World)

1 review
Charlotte Delbo

Northeastern, 1997

WOW!!!
I am so glad that this book was translated to english and published here in the States. Please, don't get me wrong, but it is "nice" to have a book about other victims of the Nazi death camps besides Jewish accounts. It serves to remind us and teach us that others too were sentenced to those Death Camps. Many gypsies, resisters, communists, christians, and lesbians, all from different countries, ...

Yehudi Menuhin: A Life

2 reviews
Humphrey Burton

Northeastern, 2000

Draws upon contemporary sources
Yehudi Menuhin is among the finest violinists of the twentieth century. Humphrey Burton's definitive biography of this outstanding musician begins with Yehudi's birth in New York to Russian Jewish immigrants. A prodigiously gifted youth, he gave his first solo recital at the age of eight and within the next five years because internationally acclaimed as a true prodigy of the violin. A visionary ...

Russians in Hollywood, Hollywood's Russians: Biography of an Image
Harlow Robinson

Northeastern, 2007

This book is the first look at the colorful yet largely unknown story of Russian emigres who worked in the American film industry, and the representation of Russians and Soviets in Hollywood movies. Among the artists who gravitated towards Hollywood in the 1920s and '30s were the legendary directors Lewis Milestone and Rouben Mamoulian, composers Dmitri Tiomkin and Constantin Bakaleinikoff, and actors Alla Nazimova, Akim Tamiroff, and Maria ...

Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience

5 reviews
Erving Goffman

Northeastern, 1986

An extraordinary tool for analyzing social interaction
Goffman takes what could have been a very dry subject, and infuses it with a humor that makes the book a pleasure to read (of course, he was tenured when he wrote it, so he could afford the sense of humor). The controlling idea of the book is that anytime human beings experience anything, we "frame" the experience in one of two categories of ways. The first category of frame is the natural ...

The Heart Too Long Suppressed: A Chronicle of Mental Illness

6 reviews
Carol Hebald

Northeastern, 2001

Behind the poet
Anyone who is fortunate enough to have encountered Carol Hebald's poetry knows the wonder of being exposed to an extraordinary talent, one which some of today's most successful authors and novelists envy. Now we know at what cost to her this skill was engendered. I would like to see an annotated volume, in which her poetry can be read in the context of the story that unfolds in "The Heart Too ...

Peyton Place

59 reviews
Grace Metalious

Northeastern, 1999

Small town secrets
I loved "Peyton Place!" Written in 1956, this book caused a commotion when it was published due to its many illicit topics, which were considered very taboo at the time. More than 50 years later, this book still triumphs as an excellent portrayal of a small New England town full of mysterious characters and many hidden secrets. Allison MacKenzie is the central character of the novel, which is ...

Puccini: A Biography

3 reviews
Mary Jane Phillips-Matz

Northeastern, 2002

Puccini: a restless visionist and revisionist
Having sung in "Tosca" and "Madama Butterfly", my interest was piqued when I first heard about Mary Jane Phillips-Matz's wonderful new biography about Giacomo Puccini. Using his operas as chapter divisions, the author gives a firm basis on which to look at Puccini's life as he struggled with his music, his collaborators, his family, his publisher, his singers, Arturo Toscanini and himself. ...

Women and Sports in the United States: A Documentary Reader

1 review

Northeastern, 2007

Women and Sports
This is an excellent compiliation of some of the best ground breaking research and writings on women in sport. It is helpful to read the discourses on women's bodies which helps us to trace the source of culturally biased scientific research agendas on athletes and on women specifically. Juxtaposed with other more familiar writings on these topics, the text becomes an all important marker for the ...

Not by the Sword: How a Cantor and His Family Transformed a Klansman

3 reviews
Kathryn Watterson

Northeastern, 2001

Enlightening and inspiring
The first part of this book is a frightening portrait of a dangerous, unstable neo-Nazi. After reading what the book reveals about the personalities of some of these people, racially mixed families might pause before visiting certain parts of our country. Cantor Weiss's ability to show tolerance and kindness to KKK member Larry Trapp is extremely moving and awe-inspiring. One of the things I ...

The Long Prison Journey of Leslie van Houten: Life Beyond the Cult (The Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime, ...

28 reviews
Karlene Faith

Northeastern, 2001

We reap what we sow
I was a young woman of 25 when these murders occured. My newly married husband and I attended a seminar on the Manson murders a few years after that . I enjoyed the book , but have to say, NONE of the players in these brutal murders should EVER ,EVER, EVER be released under ANY circumstances. They should all die in prison. At least they are still alive, unlike their victims. I don't care if they ...

The Girl Who Fell Down: A Biography of Joan McCracken

4 reviews
Lisa Jo Sagolla

Northeastern, 2003

Terrific bio of forgotten legend
This is a fascinating book about an artist who participated in some of the most significant moments in American cultural history. Joan McCracken was just a name to me before I read this book. I knew she had been in a minor Rodgers and Hammerstein show called ME AND JULIET and that she was Bob Fosse's second wife, but that was it. She catapulted to fame in the original cast of OKLAHOMA, was a ...

Tosca's Prism: Three Moments in Western Cultural History

1 review

Northeastern, 2005

A classic tale of love, lust, jealousy, and politics
Collabortively edited by Deborah Burton, Susan Vandiver Nicassio, and Agostino Ziino (all of whom are professors of music history and experts in their fields of academia), Tosca's Prism: Three Moments Of Western Cultural History is an anthology of scholarly essays by learned authors concerning the opera "La Tosca", a classic tale of love, lust, jealousy, and politics which first premiered in 1900 ...

Final Confession: The Unsolved Crimes of Phil Cresta

12 reviews
Brian P. Wallace, Bill Crowley

Northeastern, 2000

Wannabe wiseguys might want to read this book
A lot of fun to read. You can't help but laugh at a lot of these true-crime stories. You just can't make this stuff up. This book would make a great movie.

The Boston Tea Party (Northeastern Classics Edition)

2 reviews
Benjamin Woods Labaree

Northeastern, 1979

The best account
This book has aged remarkably well. First published in 1964, it remains the best account of the Boston Tea Party in or out of print. In fact, it's something of a classic. It's easy to read, tells the story in all its complexity (which involves going beyond Boston to look at how opposition to the Tea Act played out in Charleston, Philadelphia, and New York), and places the "tea party" in the ...

Murder at Mount Hermon: The Unsolved Killing of Headmaster Elliott Speer

6 reviews
Craig Walley

Northeastern, 2004

Walley Comes Closest to "Solving" Speer Murder
As a student at Northfield Mount Hermon in the early 1970s, little was said about the unsolved murder of former Headmaster Elliott Speer. I recall a rumor that the gun used in the killing was somewhere on the bottom of the school's Shadow Lake. Craig Walley's well-researched and -written book examines that rumor and many more in an absorbing murder mystery. Murder at Mount Hermon captures the ...

Victorian Boston Today: Twelve Walking Tours

1 review

Northeastern, 2004

Offers the reader twelve truly outstanding "walking tours"
Compiled, edited, and organized by Mary Melvin Petronella for the New England Chapter of the Victorian Society in America, Victorian Boston Today offers the contemporary reader twelve truly outstanding "walking tours" that reveal Boston's Victorian cultural and architectural legacy. The tours comprising this traveler's compendium include: Boston's Nineteenth-Century Waterfront (Pauline ...

The Boston Braves, 1871-1953 (The Sportstown Series)

1 review
Harold Kaese

Northeastern, 2004

The Boston Braves (The Sportstown Series)
This book is a fun read, especially for diehard Braves fans. If you are an Atlanta fan and you don't relate to the Milwaukee and Boston years for the Braves you will find this book a valuable resource for understanding the history of the team.

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