The public guardian of Cook County, Illinois, charges that the child welfare bureaucracy, designed to help children, is instead helping to destroy them.... Læs mere
In explaining the power of celebrity in modern life, Richard Schickel ranges through every realm of our culture—film, theatre, television, literature, art, the media, pop music, politics—for examples of how celebrity shapes our world and bends our minds.
Identifying and explaining the essential ideas of American life, John McElroy traces them historically from their origins in the earliest experiences of the American colonists.
Here, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author traces the development of trial by jury - "the palladium of justice". He summarises the issue, and offers explanations of the full implications of one of the most basic social rights.
This scrupulous biography follows Rostenkowski's rise to power from his modest origins in Chicago's Polish northwest side though his national legislative triumphs, to his criminal conviction and imprisonment. Photos.
Offers an innovative, well-grounded explanation of witchcraft's link to organic illness. While most historians have concentrated on... Læs mere
The tragedy of Oedipus, who unknowingly slays his father and marries his mother, is one of the mythical cornerstones of Western civilization. Plays for Performance Series.
Molière's beloved comedy features a rising member of the middle class who lusts for social status and higher learning. Plays for Performance Series.