Featured White Sale Titles
By FUPress
3rd May 2010
Fordham Press is pleased to announce its first-ever White Sale, happening now through May 31st. Choose from a selection of over 125 titles and receive up to 75% off the cover price!
Titles include books in every topic. Here are a few of our most popular titles, now 75% off for a limited time!
Intersections: The Grand Concourse at 100
Edited by Antonio Sergio Bessa
Foreword by Daniel Libeskind
Intersections: The Grand Concourse at 100 examines the rich history of the Bronx’s most famous thoroughfare through a fascinating collection of pieces–written by top-rate historians and contemporary museum curators, and accompanied by two original texts by Alsatian-born engineer Louis Risse, who designed and oversaw the construction of the Grand Concourse–on the context that informed its planning and construction, along with a vast and lush collection of photographs that bring this intoxicating period back to life.
NOW: $9.99 (was $39.95)
Victor Herbert: A Theatrical Life
By Neil Gould
Mining a wealth of sources—many for the first time—Gould provides a fascinating portrait of Herbert and his world. Born in Dublin in 1859, Herbert arrived in the United States in 1886. From his first job in the orchestra pit of the Metropolitan Opera, Herbert went on to perform in countless festivals and concerts, and conduct the Pittsburgh Orchestra. In 1894, he composed his first operetta, Prince Ananias, and by the time of his death in 1924, he’d composed forty-two more—many of them, such as Naughty Marietta, spectacular Broadway hits. Along the way, he also wrote two operas, stage music for the Ziegfeld Follies, and the first full score for a motion picture, The Fall of a Nation. As exuberant as Herbert himself, this book is also a chronicle of American popular culture during one of its most creative periods. For anyone enraptured by the sound of the American musical, this book is delightfully required reading.
NOW: $11.25 (was $45)
America’s Japan: The First Year, 1945-1946
By: Grant K. Goodman
One of the few non-Japanese Americans trained to read, write, and speak Japanese, Princeton undergraduate Grant Goodman had a privileged position during World War II. As an Army lieutenant, Goodman served in the Philippines at the close of the war and in Tokyo as an intelligence officer on General Douglas MacArthur’s staff. Goodman translated thousands of letters, interviews, and other documents by Japanese citizens of all kinds, and came to know, as few Americans could, the “hearts and minds” of a defeated people as they moved slowly to democracy.
This book is a not only a fascinating personal chronicle of Grant Goodman’s unique experience in Japan. Moving deftly between his role as an Army officer gathering essential information and as a young scholar fascinated by Japanese culture, he provides a vividly drawn portrait of daily life in occupied Tokyo.
NOW: $6.25 (was $25)