The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War, 1945-1947 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War, 1945-1947 write by Daniel Kurtz-Phelan. This book was released on 2018-04-10. The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War, 1945-1947 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An Economist Best Book of 2018 New York Times Book Review Editor’s Pick “Gripping [and] splendid.… An enormous contribution to our understanding of Marshall.”—Washington Post At the end of World War II, General George Marshall took on what he thought was a final mission—this time not to win a war, but to stop one. In China, conflict between Communists and Nationalists threatened to suck in the United States and escalate into revolution. Marshall’s charge was to cross the Pacific, broker a peace, and prevent a Communist takeover, all while staving off World War III. At first, the results seemed miraculous. But as they started to come apart, Marshall was faced with a wrenching choice—one that would alter the course of the Cold War, define the US-China relationship, and spark one of the darkest-ever turns in American political life. The China Mission offers a gripping, close-up view of the central figures of the time—from Marshall, Mao, and Chiang Kai-shek to Eisenhower, Truman, and MacArthur—as they stood face-to-face and struggled to make history, with consequences and lessons that echo today.
In Excess
In Excess - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Excess write by Masha Salazkina. This book was released on 2009-08-01. In Excess available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the 1920s and ’30s, Mexico attracted an international roster of artists and intellectuals—including Orson Welles, Katherine Anne Porter, and Leon Trotsky—who were drawn to the heady tumult engendered by battling cultural ideologies in an emerging center for the avant-garde. Against the backdrop of this cosmopolitan milieu, In Excess reconstructs the years that the renowned Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein spent in the country to work on his controversial film ¡Que Viva Mexico! Illuminating the inextricability of Eisenstein’s oeuvre from the global cultures of modernity and film, Masha Salazkina situates this unfinished project within the twin contexts of postrevolutionary Mexico and the ideas of such contemporaneous thinkers as Walter Benjamin. In doing so, Salazkina explains how Eisenstein’s engagement with Mexican mythology, politics, and art deeply influenced his ideas, particularly about sexuality. She also uncovers the role Eisenstein’s bisexuality played in his creative thinking and identifies his use of the baroque as an important turn toward excess and hybrid forms. Beautifully illustrated with rare photographs, In Excess provides the most complete genealogy available of major shifts in this modern master’s theories and aesthetics.
The Cinema of Eisenstein
The Cinema of Eisenstein - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cinema of Eisenstein write by David Bordwell. This book was released on 2020-10-07. The Cinema of Eisenstein available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Cinema of Eisenstein is David Bordwell's comprehensive analysis of the films of Sergei Eisenstein, arguably the key figure in the entire history of film. The director of such classics as Potemkin, Ivan the Terrible, October, Strike, and Alexander Nevsky, Eisenstein theorized montage, presented Soviet realism to the world, and mastered the concept of film epic. Comprehensive, authoritative, and illustrated throughout, this classic work deserves to be on the shelf of every serious student of cinema.
Eisenstein at Work
Eisenstein at Work - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eisenstein at Work write by Jay Leyda. This book was released on 1987. Eisenstein at Work available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Judges of England
The Judges of England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Judges of England write by Edward Foss. This book was released on 1857. The Judges of England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
