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Amidst the crumbling Ottoman Empire, an immigrant struggles to realize his potential in America in stark conflict with the demands of a large family
Heirs To The Pushcart Fortune weaves the lives of two generations of an immigrant's family during two of the seminal events of the twentieth century, the Great Depression and the Second World War.
This family saga explores the immigrant's search for that elusive American dream and how a chance encounter with a female professoor at Barnard College alters both their lives.
It's a tale of the the true legacy of the immigrant experience––the transmission to succeeding generations of ethical values challenged by the confrontation with reality.
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Pausing For A Backward Glance, is about the effect the Dreyfus Affaire in fin-de-siecle France had on the iconic figures of French culture––Monet, Cezanne, Degas, Pissarro, Proust, Debussy, and the effect they had on those events. And how that Affaire roiled the very foundations of French civilization.
Juxtaposing that event with the post-war investigations by the House Un-American Activities Committee into our Hollywood icons, the book examines the similarities between those seminal events and how it roiled our own culture.
Hollywood screenwriter uncovers betrayals and divided loyalties inbr />
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“Pausing For a Backward Glance,” by Jack Salem, is a fictional account of a 1950s screenwriter whose personal life in America mirrors her shocking discoveries in Francebr />
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LOS ANGELES – In a story of intrigue and suspicion, ruined lives and relationships, Jack Salem’s new work of historical fiction, “Pausing For a Backward Glance” (ISBN 1456322710) juxtaposes two seminal events – the devastating e |
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Shanghai Escapist
by Robert Liu
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 Shanghai Escapist grabs the faint-of-heart right from the get-go and serves up an ultimatum: What would you do if caught in the same circumstances? From the opening scene, the reader is tossed into the maze of daily intrigue as it existed in 1960s-70 |
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