“Basically, all parts are character parts. The problem of the actor is to protect the differences in a character: to identify that the character being portrayed has his own personality traits. He has to find things within himself to establish these differences. I’m best when I portray not good guys, or bad guys, but human guys. These are the people I understand.” Arthur Kennedy’s words speak volumes about the kind of actor he was, one sought by both Hollywood and Broadway to be in dramas involving real people struggling with real problems. His many talents were recognized with several Academy Award nominations and the winning of a Golden Globe and a Tony award. This work covers Kennedy’s film and stage career, film-by-film and play-by-play, and provides pictures, synopses, and commentary for each one. Acting anecdotes from Kennedy himself or from his peers in film and on stage, such as Errol Flynn, Elia Kazan, James Cagney, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, and many others, bedizen the commentary. Among the films and plays included are Joy in the Morning, Henry IV Part I, Strange Alibi, High Sierra, Bad Men, Desperate Journey, Cheyenne, The Window and Champion.

Arthur Kennedy, Man of Characters: A Stage and Cinema Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Craig R. Smith

Meredith C. Macksoud

Jackie Lohrke

Arts & Literature

McFarland

REDISCOVERING GOLD IN THE ST CENTURY is a primer for both the interested investor and collector that traces the history of U.S. gold coins, valuation and pricing factors, market cycles, independent certification and the effect that growing public demand has upon the shrinking supply of rare gold coins.

Rediscovering Gold in the 21st Century

Business & Money

Idea Factory Pr

Welcome to the inflatocracy-our new form of government of, by, and for inflation-in which deliberately debasing our money has become a tool of social engineering, mind manipulation, wealth redistribution, and secret taxation. Inflation empowers Washington inflatocrats to pick the pockets not only of Americans but also of Germans, Chinese, Brazilians and South Africans, imposing a hidden tax on people around the world who trust paper US dollars as their reserve currency-a worldwide tax that exports our inflation, all to feed our politicians' power-mad addiction to stratospheric spending. The inflatocracy, and the huge welfare state it makes possible, have brought America to the brink of bankruptcy. In The Inflation Deception, monetary expert Craig R. Smith, the chairman of Swiss America Trading Corporation and former think tank futurist Lowell Ponte explain how the inflatocracy took over our government. They offer three political and three financial ways to restore a free and prosperous America.

The Inflation Deception: Six Ways Government Tricks Us...and Seven Ways to Stop It!

Lowell Ponte

Economics

Idea Factory Press

For two decades, students and instructors have relied on award-winning author Craig Smith's detailed description and analysis of rhetorical theories and the historical contexts for major thinkers who advanced them. He employs key themes from important philosophical schools in this well-researched chronicle of rhetoric and human consciousness. One is that rhetoric is a response to uncertainty. The modern philosophers, like the naturalists of ancient Greece and the Scholastics who preceded them, tried to end uncertainty by combining the discoveries of science and psychology with rationalism. Their aim was progress and a consensus among experts as to what truth is. However, where modernism proved ineffective, rhetoric was revived to fill the breach. Another significant theme is that different conceptions of human consciousness lead to different theories of rhetoric, and for every major school of thought, another school of thought forms in reaction.
 Classic and contemporary examples demonstrate the usefulness of rhetorical theory, especially its ability to inform and guide. By providing probes for rhetorical criticism, discussions also demonstrate that rhetorical criticism illustrates, verifies, and refines rhetorical theory. Thus, the synergistic relationship between theory and criticism in rhetoric is no different than in other arts: Theory informs practice; analysis of successful practice refines theory.
 Smith's absorbing study has been expanded to include thorough treatments of rhetoric in the Romantic Era, feminist and queer theory, and historical context for the creation of rhetorical theory and its use in public address.
 Title of related interest also available from Waveland Press: Foss et al., Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric, 30th Anniversary Edition (ISBN 9781478615248).

Rhetoric and Human Consciousness: A History, Fifth Edition

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Waveland Press. Inc.

Don't Bank On It!

Independent Publisher

Relying on the authors established expertise in rhetorical theory and political communication, this book re-contextualizes Romantic rhetorical theory in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to provide a foundation for a Neo-Romantic rhetorical theory for our own time. In the process, it uses a unique methodology to correct misconceptions about many Romantic writers. The methodology of the early chapters uses a dialectical approach to trace Romanticism and its opposition, the Enlightenment, back through Humanism and its opposition, Scholasticism, to St. Augustine. These chapters include a revisionist analysis of the churchs treatment of Galileo in the course of showing how difficult it was for scientific study to be accepted in the academic world. The study also re-conceptualizes Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, and Edmund Burke as bridge figures to the Romantic Era instead of as Enlightenment figures. This move throws new light on the major artists of the Romantic Era, who are examined in chapters seven and eight. Chapter nine focuses on Percy Bysshe Shelley and his development of the rhetorical poem, and thereby provides a new genre in the Romantic catalogue. Chapter ten uses the foregoing to analyse and reconceptualize the rhetorical theories of Hugh Blair and Thomas De Quincey. The concluding chapter then synthesizes their theories with relevant contemporary rhetorical theories thereby constructing a Neo-Romantic theory for our own time. In the process, this book links the Romantics love of nature to the current environmental crisis.

Romanticism, Rhetoric and the Search for the Sublime: A Neo-Romantic Theory for Our Time

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Creating a meaningful and engaging survey of the uses, definitions, and styles of rhetoric as it has evolved from ancient to present times would be a daunting task for most scholars. Luckily, for all who want to know about rhetoric’s intersection with diverse disciplines of thought, how it has guided human interaction, and its place as a powerful force in public affairs and education, the latest edition of Craig Smith’s Rhetoric and Human Consciousness provides enriching insights. His detailed, well-researched text maintains a balanced, in-depth analysis of theories, perspectives, people, and situations associated with various dimensions of rhetoric. The historical development of rhetorical theory, together with multiple examples, illustrates and highlights rhetorical themes and trends in philosophical, political, psychological, scientific, and religious thought and creativity. Smith argues that for almost every school of thought, another school of thought forms in reaction. From this perspective, he presents investigations of Greco-Roman, medieval, Renaissance, modern, existential, postmodern, and feminist thinking, examining the evolving definitions of rhetoric from myth and display to persuasion and symbolic inducement. He demonstrates that all of us use rhetoric to achieve higher levels of understanding when we communicate with others because it is crucial to decision making in an uncertain world. An elevated understanding of rhetoric helps us become better persuaders and critical listeners.

Rhetoric and Human Consciousness: A History

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Waveland Pr Inc.

Experts estimate that Americans consume more than 25 percent of the world's oil but have control over less than 3 percent of its proven oil supply. This unbalanced pattern of consumption makes it possible for foreign governments, corrupt political leaders, terrorist organizations and oil conglomerates to hold the economy and the citizens of the United States in a virtual stranglehold. There is no greater proof of this than the direct relationship between skyrocketing gas prices and the explosion of wealth among those who control the world's supply of oil. In Black Gold Stranglehold, Jerome R. Corsi and Craig Smith expose the fraudulent science that has made America so vulnerable: the belief that oil is a fossil fuel and that it is a finite resource.

Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil

Jerome R. Corsi

WND Books

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