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Oscar Wilde

by Richard Ellmann


Blood Sport

The Manly Art

by Elliott J. Gorn

John L. Sullivan and His America

by Michael T. Isenberg

Beyond the Ring: The Role of Boxing in American Society

by Jeffrey T. Sammons

On Boxing

by Joyce Carol Oates


Underground Artist

A Game of Dark

Salt River Times

Max's Dream

A Parcel of Trees

While the Bell Rings

Underground Alley

Earthfasts

Winter Quarters

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Born Too Late

The Last Emperor is a spectacular film photographed in brilliant color. It is also a moral drama with controversial political overtones of great ambiguity.

The Last Emperor

a film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci

Twilight in the Forbidden City (1973), out of print

by Reginald F. Johnston. with a preface by the Emperor

From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi

translated by W.J.F. Jenner

From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi

reprinted with new general and chapter introductions by W.J.F. Jenner, afterword by Simon Winchester

The Last Emperor

by Edward Behr

The Last Manchu: The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China

translated by Kuo Ying Paul Tsai, edited, with a revised preface and epilogue and Paul Kramer

A Dream of Tartary: The Origins and Misfortunes of Henry Pu Yi

by Henry McAleavy

Pu Yi: J'étais empereur de Chine: L'autobiographie du dernier empereur de Chine (1906–1967)

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The Kaiser and the Kritik

Kaiser, Hof und Staat: Wilhlem II und die deutsche Politik

by John C.G. Röhl

Max Weber and German Politics: 1890–1920

by Wolfgang J. Mommsen, translated by Michael S. Steinberg

Max Weber zur Politik im Weltkrieg: Schriften und Reden, 1914–1918 (Max Weber Gesamtausgabe, Abteilung 1, Band 15)

edited by Wolfgang J. Mommsen, in collaboration with Gangolf Hübner

Max Weber and his Contemporaries

edited by Wolfgang J. Mommsen, edited by Jürgen Osterhammel


Coming Up for Air

Turn-of-the-Century Cabaret: Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Cracow, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Zurich

by Harold B. Segel

Paris: The Musical Kaleidoscope, 1870–1925

by Elaine Brody


China on My Mind

China Watch

by John King Fairbank

The Great Chinese Revolution: 1800–1985

by John King Fairbank


The Fundamentalists and the Constitution

The American Founding: Politics, Statesmanship, and the Constitution

edited by Ralph A. Rossum, edited by Gary L. McDowell

The Complete Anti-Federalist

edited by Herbert J. Storing

"The Constitutional Order, 1787–1987"

edited by Irving Kristol, edited by Nathan Glazer

Constitutionalism and Rights

edited by Gary C. Bryner, edited by Noel B. Reynolds

The Founders' Constitution

edited by Philip B. Kurland, edited by Ralph Lerner

The Framing and Ratification of the Constitution

edited by Leonard W. Levy, edited by Dennis J. Mahoney

The Moral Foundations of the American Republic

edited by Robert H. Horwitz

Saving the Revolution: "The Federalist Papers" and The American Founding

edited by Charles R. Kesler

Taking the Constitution Seriously

by Walter Berns

The Thinking Revolutionary: Principle and Practice in the New Republic

by Ralph Lerner

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