Background
Weintraub, Stanley was born on April 17, 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Ben and Ray (Segal) Weintraub.
(This biography of Victoria highlights the many dramas of ...)
This biography of Victoria highlights the many dramas of her life. For example, she was fatherless at eight months and treated poorly by her family, but survived to become the only English queen comparable to Elizabeth I. The character of Victoria herself, stubborn and vital, is also drawn out.
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( Charlotte was young and beautiful. Lionel, almost ten ...)
Charlotte was young and beautiful. Lionel, almost ten years older, was rich and her cousin. Theirs was an arranged betrothal joining two branches of Europe's most powerful banking firm. It seemed an unlikely love match, and even their wedding had to survive catastrophe. Yet their marriage lasted through tragedies and triumphs. Charlotte became one of the grand chatelaines of the Victorian era; Lionel, England's leading financier, persevered through years of bigotry to become the first of his faith to be seated in Parliament. In Charlotte and Lionel, acclaimed biographer Stanley Weintraub, using full access to the Rothschild family archives, tells the story of their stunning and surprising love for each other, opening a fascinating window into a memorable age. Together, Charlotte and Lionel de Rothschild challenged and redefined their place in Victorian society. At her celebrated salons, England's leading politicians and policy makers met and shared opinions. Disraeli regularly argued politics with adversaries; Gladstone discussed religion with Charlotte; "Tom Thumb" (with P. T. Barnum) entertained; artists and writers and aristocrats mingled. Refusing to swear a Christian oath, Lionel was elected to Parliament half a dozen times before he could take his seat. After a decade-long battle, the House of Commons changed its rules, enabling Lionel and future Jewish or non-Christian members to serve. Lionel (and, behind the scenes, Charlotte) influenced events worldwide, helping to fund relief to a starving Ireland, aiding persecuted Jews in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, brokering the purchase of the Suez Canal, and arranging for France's postwar reparations to Germany. Yet despite the distractions of their power, glamour, and wealth, and problems of health for which money could buy no solutions, they remained intensely devoted to each other and their family. Although Charlotte lost a daughter, then her beloved husband, and had to come back herself from severe illness, she remained unbroken. Charlotte and Lionel presents the evocative tale of one of the least known yet most touching love stories from the glamorous decades of Victorian England.
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(A major biography of Queen Victoria--the first complete l...)
A major biography of Queen Victoria--the first complete life of her in over twenty years--and the first to be written by an American. Illustrated.
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(The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh mon...)
The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918 will live in history as a great moment--the hour the Armistice went into effect, bringing an end to the First World War. Guns were silenced, and worldwide the great and small alike celebrated the end of 51 months of fighting. In this magnificent book, Stanley Weintraub recreates the days leading up to the armistice and documents the reactions of survivors on both sides of the front. Thirty-year-old Major Omar Bradley lamented that his rank would be reduced to that of captain and that he was "professionally ruined." King George V celebrated with a bottle of brandy laid aside for the Battle of Waterloo. In America, for 16-year-old Charles Lindbergh the end of the war meant the purchase of a war-surplus "Flying Jenny." In a German hospital, Corporal Adolf Hitler, temporarily blinded by teargas, wept. Weintraub has delved into the archives, sifted through a large collection of letters and diaries sent to him by survivors and heirs to survivors, and interviewed many eyewitnesses to produce this vivid rendering of the end not just of a war but of an era. Here are notable literary, military, and political figures of the 20th century as young men and women--their careers to come still at the mercy of a last bullet or burst of shrapnel. Here also are the reflections of such figures as Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann and Joseph Conrad on the effects of the war, and eerie premonitions of the Second World War, whose seeds were sown in both the harshness and the paradoxical laxity of the peace agreement. A major evocation of the last days of the Great War, A Stillness Heard Round the World offers both historical vignettes and heartfelt visions of the horror of war and the ecstacy of peace.
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(It was truly a white Christmas in the Ardennes Forest in ...)
It was truly a white Christmas in the Ardennes Forest in 1944, but that was cold comfort to the Allied soldiers trying to stop the Nazis from retaking Belgium in one of the most decisive battles of World War II. While a German loudspeaker taunted, ?How would you like to die for Christmas?? the Allied forces dug in, despite freezing conditions. They needed a miracle. In a medieval chapel, General Patton, who needed clear skies to allow airborne reinforcements to reach his trapped men, uttered what would become a famous prayer: ?Sir, whose side are you on?? His soldiers wouldn?t be home for Christmas, but as the skies cleared, they went on to win a battle? and a war.
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(Offering new perspectives on the Victorian era's politica...)
Offering new perspectives on the Victorian era's political and literary giant, this portrait chronicles Disraeli's brilliant and varied career, set against the backdrop of the British Empire at its height. 20,000 first printing. BOMC. History Bk Club.
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(Dust jacket art by Lawrence Ratzkin. Weintraub investigat...)
Dust jacket art by Lawrence Ratzkin. Weintraub investigates the World War I's impact on Shaw's life and writing.
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(In the closing days of World War II, America looked up to...)
In the closing days of World War II, America looked up to three five-star generals as its greatest heroes. George C. Marshall, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Douglas MacArthur personified victory, from the Pentagon to Normandy to the Far East. Counterparts and on occasion competitors, they had leapfrogged each other, sometimes stonewalled each other, even supported and protected each other throughout their celebrated careers. In the public mind they stood for glamour, integrity, and competence. But for dramatic twists of circumstance, all three -- rather than only one -- might have occupied the White House. The story of their interconnected lives opens a fascinating window onto some of the twentieth century's most crucial events, revealing the personalities behind the public images and showing how much of a difference three men can make. Marshall and MacArthur were contemporaries and competitors. Eisenhower was MacArthur's underling, then Marshall's deputy, before becoming MacArthur's counterpart as a supreme commander, Ike in Western Europe, MacArthur in the Pacific. Each of the three five-star generals would go on to extraordinary postwar careers: MacArthur as a virtual viceroy of Japan, overseeing its transition to a new constitutional democracy, and then leading the UN forces in the Korean War; Marshall as secretary of state, author of the Marshall Plan, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize; Eisenhower as president. Fifteen Stars presents the intertwined lives of these three great men against the sweeping background of six unforgettable decades, from two world wars to the Cold War. It is history at its most dramatic yet most personal -- a triumph for Stanley Weintraub, our preeminent military historian.
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(At twenty the "Fra Angelico of Satanism", as Roger Fry wa...)
At twenty the "Fra Angelico of Satanism", as Roger Fry was to call Aubrey Beardsley, was an obscure clerk in a London insurance firm. Three years later he was the most notorious and perhaps the most influential artist in England.Here, then, is the marvelous boyhe died at twenty-fiveas human being and as complex and tragic genius, in the rich context of 150 examples of his graphic art.The original version of Aubrey Beardsley was a National Book Award nominee.
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(A more incongruous friendship than the one reflected in t...)
A more incongruous friendship than the one reflected in this correspondence is hard to imagine. Shaw is now remembered as the leading playwright of his time, and one of era's most memorable wits; Harris has become notorious for his near-pornographic My Life and Loves, and for a humorless (and disintegrating) sense of self-importance. At one time, Harris had been one of the later nineteenth century's most visible literary figures, a friend of such dissimilar people as Lord Randolph Churchill and Oscar Wilde, an editor of the London Evening News at 29, then editor of the Fortnightly Review and the Saturday Review, whose theatre critic Shaw became. Never quite respectable, Harris had been tolerated -even courted- as an amiable vulgarian when he was a rising star. However, his booming voice and four-letter language, his inability to look like anything other than an Albanian highwayman even when dressed in tails, his gluttonous gormandizing and insatiable womanizing, quickly made him a pariah in Edwardian circles as his career began to slip and he began to snatch at shady quick-money opportunities.Through these pages emerge the literary and political life of Edwardian and Georgian England, and wartime American, via Shaw's wit and ebullience and Harris's pomposity and paranoia.
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( Charlotte was young and beautiful. Lionel, almost ten ...)
Charlotte was young and beautiful. Lionel, almost ten years older, was rich and her cousin. Theirs was an arranged betrothal joining two branches of Europe's most powerful banking firm. It seemed an unlikely love match, and even their wedding had to survive catastrophe. Yet their marriage lasted through tragedies and triumphs. Charlotte became one of the grand chatelaines of the Victorian era; Lionel, England's leading financier, persevered through years of bigotry to become the first of his faith to be seated in Parliament. In Charlotte and Lionel, acclaimed biographer Stanley Weintraub, using full access to the Rothschild family archives, tells the story of their stunning and surprising love for each other, opening a fascinating window into a memorable age. Together, Charlotte and Lionel de Rothschild challenged and redefined their place in Victorian society. At her celebrated salons, England's leading politicians and policy makers met and shared opinions. Disraeli regularly argued politics with adversaries; Gladstone discussed religion with Charlotte; "Tom Thumb" (with P. T. Barnum) entertained; artists and writers and aristocrats mingled. Refusing to swear a Christian oath, Lionel was elected to Parliament half a dozen times before he could take his seat. After a decade-long battle, the House of Commons changed its rules, enabling Lionel and future Jewish or non-Christian members to serve. Lionel (and, behind the scenes, Charlotte) influenced events worldwide, helping to fund relief to a starving Ireland, aiding persecuted Jews in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, brokering the purchase of the Suez Canal, and arranging for France's postwar reparations to Germany. Yet despite the distractions of their power, glamour, and wealth, and problems of health for which money could buy no solutions, they remained intensely devoted to each other and their family. Although Charlotte lost a daughter, then her beloved husband, and had to come back herself from severe illness, she remained unbroken. Charlotte and Lionel presents the evocative tale of one of the least known yet most touching love stories from the glamorous decades of Victorian England.
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(SILENT NIGHT brings to life one of the most unlikely and ...)
SILENT NIGHT brings to life one of the most unlikely and touching events in the annals of war. In the early months of WWI, on Christmas Eve, men on both sides left their trenches, laid down their arms, and joined in a spontaneous celebration with their new friends, the enemy. For a brief, blissful time, remembered since in song and story, a world war stopped. Even the participants found what they were doing incredible. Germans placed candle-lit Christmas trees on trench parapets and warring soldiers sang carols. In the spirit of the season they ventured out beyond their barbed wire to meet in No Man's Land, where they buried the dead in moving ceremonies, exchanged gifts, ate and drank together, and joyously played football, often with improvised balls. The truce spread as men defied orders and fired harmlessly into the air. But, reluctantly, they were forced to re-start history's most bloody war. SILENT NIGHT vividly recovers a dreamlike event, one of the most extraordinary of Christmas stories.
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(In the beginning months of World War I, a very strange th...)
In the beginning months of World War I, a very strange thing happened. After the fierce trench warfare of November and December, on Christmas Eve, 1914, the fighting spontaneously stopped. Men on both sides laid down their arms and came to celebrate Christmas with each other. They shared food parcels across the lines, sang carols together, and erected Christmas trees with candles. They buried the dead, exchanged presents, and even played soccer together. Stanley Weintraub uses the letters and diaries of the men present to underscore the reality of this strange, delicate, twilight-like state of truce, when peace and good will really were for all men. It was with reluctance that the truce came to an end, and men had to get back to the business of killing.
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(The 20th century brought Britain once again to the forefr...)
The 20th century brought Britain once again to the forefront in world drama. Not since Shakespeare's time had Britain produced such an astounding group of talented playwrights. The names of most of these dramatists are known all over the Western world and their plays are in constant production by repertory and amateur companies everywhere. The playwrights presented in DLB Volume 10 are those whose careers had reached their heights prior to the end of World War II, or whose lives had ended by that time. The writings of these authors offer insights into the deepest thinking and the highest aspirations of the 20th century. Seven appendices offer additional information, in essay form, on the British theater during 1900-1945. 71 entries include: W. H. Auden, Harold Brighouse, Noel Coward, T. S. Eliot, John Galsworthy, W. Somerset Maugham, A. A. Milne, Sean O'Casey, Bernard Shaw, John van Druten, Oscar Wilde and William Butler Yeats.
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Weintraub, Stanley was born on April 17, 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Ben and Ray (Segal) Weintraub.
Bachelor of Science, West Chester (Pennsylvania) State College, 1949; Master of Arts, Temple University, 1951; Doctor of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, 1956.
Instructor, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 1953-1959; assistant professor, Pennsylvania State University, 1959-1962; associate professor, Pennsylvania State University, 1962-1965; Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University, 1965-1970; research professor, Pennsylvania State University, 1970-1986; Evan Pugh professor Arts and Humanities, Pennsylvania State University, since 1986; director, Institute for Arts and Humanistic Studies, 1970-1990. Visiting professor University of California at Los Angeles, 1963, U. Hawaii, 1973, U. Malaya, 1977, National U. Singapore, 1982.
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(It was truly a white Christmas in the Ardennes Forest in ...)
(Offering new perspectives on the Victorian era's politica...)
(The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh mon...)
(At twenty the "Fra Angelico of Satanism", as Roger Fry wa...)
(A major biography of Queen Victoria--the first complete l...)
(At twenty the "Fra Angelico of Satanism", as Roger Fry wa...)
(The Yellow Book : Quintessence of the Nineties Mass Marke...)
(In the closing days of World War II, America looked up to...)
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(A more incongruous friendship than the one reflected in t...)
(SILENT NIGHT brings to life one of the most unlikely and ...)
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(The 20th century brought Britain once again to the forefr...)
(In the beginning months of World War I, a very strange th...)
(This biography of Victoria highlights the many dramas of ...)
(A dual portrait of Lawrence of Arabia and George Bernard ...)
(25 ESSAYS GIVING A CRITICAL VIEW OF BERNARD SHAW'S PLAY. ...)
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( Charlotte was young and beautiful. Lionel, almost ten ...)
( Charlotte was young and beautiful. Lionel, almost ten ...)
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President Jewish Community Council of Bellefonte (Pennsylvania) State College, 1966-1967. Served to First lieutenant Army of the United States, 1951-1953, Korea. Member The Authors' Guild, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association.
Married Rodelle Horwitz, June 6, 1954. Children: Mark, David, Erica.