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Miksa, Fenyo: AZ Elsodort Orszag, Naplojegyzetek 1944-1945 bol, Budapest Revai 1946

Diary of his war years, Sprache: Hungarian, G+ as some wear to covers and brittle yellowed paper of wartime poor consistency, 637pps. The author was one of eight children born in M lyk t, Hungary into a hard-working Jewish tailoring family that produced quality attire and other fine clothing. Because of his exceptional abilities in composition and the Hungarian language in general he was awarded a scholarship to attend the then-prominent Evangelical Secondary School of Budapest. After graduating from high school with exceptional honors in Hungarian writing, he earned his Law Diploma from the Budapest University of Law (now part of the University of Budapest)). After a brief and failed attempt at working as a private attorney, he found an opportunity to work for the then two-year-old Hungarian Federation of Industrialists (GYOSZ), an organization which became key to the development of Hungary's primarily rural agricultural economic base, into an increasingly industrial one. In 1908 Fenyo, whose first and foremost love was writing, and two other writers, Hugo Ignotus and Erno Osv t, founded the literary and social journal Nyugat ("The West"). The "Nyugat" soon became the most controversial and high caliber periodical review for Hungarian intellectuals, including some who later became Nobel Prize-winning scientists and researchers, and its content and history are part of the government high school level curriculae today ever since the end of World War II. Fenyo was active in the Hungarian government during the period between World War I and II. As an independent member of the Hungarian Parliament Miksa wrote a critical and cautionary study on Hitler and the dictator's dangerous plans for Europe. He was virtually the only Member of Parliament to dare criticize the Nazi regime. His book Hitler Tanulmany (1934) led to Miksa being placed on Adolf Hitler's personal Most Wanted List. Fenyo was forced into hiding during WWII. During this time he kept a diary (this book), which was published in 1946 and was a best-seller that same year. In the post-war years Miksa was invited to become a Minister in the new Jewish State of Israel by David Ben-Gurion, but he refused because of concerns about violence following the creation of the new state and his personal religious affiliation, since he had converted to Catholicism more than 30 years earlier. His conversion out of Judaism into Catholicism was more out of a social and socio-economic consideration ( something clearly depicted to in the movie Sunshine (1999 film), starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz , directed by Istv n Szabc, who also wrote the screenplay, released by Paramount Pictures in 1999 ). In general Miksa Fenyo was an agnostic who cherished some of his original Jewish cultural traditions and many non-Jewish Hungarian and Italian cultural traditions. Fenyo became a US citizen in the early 1950s and lived in New York City until moving to Vienna with his second wife Ria in 1969. During much of his adult life he travelled regularly to his favorite country, Italy. In 1964 he was awarded the prestigiopus Italian Rome Award for his travel journal and diary Ami Kimaradt Az Odysseab"l ( English trans.: That Which The Odyssey Forgot To Mention ). Rare item. On 4 April 1972 Miksa Fenyo died in Vienna at the age of 95, at his last residence on Seilerst"tte Strasse. His survivors included his second wife Ria Fenyo (d. 1993); four children, of which his first three, Ivan, Gyorgy and Panni have since died; his last son, born in Budapest in 1935, is Prof. Mario D. Fenyo, a historian currently tenured at Bowie State University, in Bowie, Maryland; and two grandchildren, Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo (a philosopher and writer born in Washington, DC in 1964), and Gian-Carlo B. Fenyo. Miksa Fenyo's legacy is just now being rediscovered in Hungary, and with the upcoming 100th anniversary of the founding of the "Nyugat" periodical in 2008 his life and works are likely to be of growing interest, both within Hungary and abroad.

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Johnson, Alvin. THE BATTLE OF THE WILD TURKEY AND OTHER TALES. New York: Atheneum, 1961.
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First printing. A wonderful collection of short stories, most set on the Nebraska plains in the late 1800's, published when the author was 86. INSCRIBED on the blank prelim 'To Calvin J. Nichols, with the warmest regards of Alvin Johnson.' Johnson is best known for his founding of the New School for Social Research in 1919, but in 1933, he created a 'university in exile' as a haven for scholars who fled from Nazi persecution. Laid in are newpaper obituaries for Johnson (1971.) Near fine in very good dust jacket (slight discoloration to the endpapers from the clippings, a little wear to the dj at the top of the spine.)

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Beam, Alex: Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital, New York PublicAffairs 2001
ISBN: 1891620754 Fine

273 pp., [8] pp. of plates, illus., maps, bib. notes, index; 25 cm. AS NEW. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "An entertaining and poignant social history of McLean Hospital--temporary home to many of the troubled geniuses of our age--and of the evolution of the treatment of mental illness from the early 19th century to today. Its landscaped ground, chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with Tudor mansions, could belong to a New England prep school. There are no fences, no guards, no locked gates. But McLean Hospital is a mental institution-one of the most famous, most elite, and once most luxurious in America. McLean 'alumni' include Olmsted himself, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, James Taylor and Ray Charles, as well as (more secretly) other notables from among the rich and famous. In its 'golden age,' McLean provided as genteel an environment for the treatment of mental illness as one could imagine. But the golden age is over, and a downsized, downscale McLean - despite its affiliation with Harvard University - is struggling to stay afloat. Gracefully Insane, by Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam, is a fascinating and emotional biography of McLean Hospital from its founding in 1817 through today. It is filled with stories about patients and doctors: the Ralph Waldo Emerson protege whose brilliance disappeared along with his madness; Anne Sexton's poetry seminar, and many more. The story of McLean is also the story of the hopes and failures of psychology and psychotherapy; of the evolution of attitudes about mental illness, of approaches to treatment, and of the economic pressures that are making McLean - and other institutions like it - relics of a bygone age. This is a compelling and often oddly poignant reading for fans of books like Plath's The Bell Jar and Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted (both inspired by their author's stays at McLean) and for anyone interested in the history of medicine or psychotherapy, or the social history of New England. / Alex Beam is a columnist for the Boston Globe and the author of two novels. He has also written for the Atlantic Monthly, Slate and Forbes/FYI. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts with his wife and three sons." - Publisher. Fine Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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Owen, John: L.T. Hobhouse, Sociologist, London Thomas Nelson 1975
ISBN: 0177110805 New

Leonard Trelawney Hobhouse (1864-1929) was one of the leading social theorists of his generation and is noted for his prominence in the fields of liberalism and sociology. He was a temporary lecturer at LSE from 1896-97 before he became a journalist for the Manchester Guardian in 1897. He returned to the School as a lecturer in 1904, remaining until 1929. In 1907 he became the first Professor of Sociology in a British university. He was pivotal in the establishment and foundation of sociology as an academic discipline and in the refinement of its methodology. In the history of political thought he figures as the last exponent of Liberal political philosophy in the grand manner and was an heir to the liberal tradition of John Stuart Mill (1806-73). Mill was one of the great historians of political thought and is famous for On Liberty (1859), a classic defence of the freedom oif the individual. Hobhouse's Liberalism (1911) has been described as timelessly classic and the best twentieth century statement of Liberal ideals. He was a, if not the, leading Liberal theorist of the New Liberalism of the Edwardian period, and he was a major advocate of the social reforms of the Asquith government. He is acknowledged as one of the founding fathers of theoretical sociology in Britain and is counted among the most considerable British sociologists of the twentieth century. His published works include: Labour Movement (1893), Theory of Knowledge (1896), Morals in Evolution (1906), Development and Purpose (1913), and The Elements of Social Justice (1922). First Edition New Cloth 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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