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Maverick's Progress

An Autobiography

James Thomas Flexner

"The best biographer of George Washington, James T. Flexner has also opened up the history of American painting and the history of American medicine and has had absorbing adventures along the way, as a biographer and as a man. Maverick's Progress is a rich account of a varied and productive life, an instructive book for writers and a delightful book for readers."

- Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

"Flexner, historian, art critic, award-winning biographer of George Washington, Benedict Arnold and Alexander Hamilton, calls himself a maverick, and indeed this convivial autobiography, written with great charm and style, reveals an individual who goes his own way."

- Publisher's Weekly

"Any New Yorker-or outlander-who wants to capture the wonders of the Empire City can do so by reading James Thomas Flexner's Maverick's Progress. This remarkable and readable autobiography offers a history of a big chunk of the 20th century: its newspaper life; literary life; street life. From the newsroom of the "New York Herald Tribune" to the libraries where he researched his definitive biography of George Washington, Flexner personally defines the meaning of a Man of Letters."

- Herbert Mitgang

512 pp., 24 pp. of photographs, ISBN 0-8232-1660-8/$29.95 (cloth)

The Hudson River Guidebook

Arthur G. Adams.

The first comprehensive guide to the Hudson since the works of Ernest Ingersoll were published in the early 1900s, this guidebook arrives to fill the need for a detailed, point-by-point guide to the river from its intersection with the Atlantic to its source in the Adirondacks. Adams offers his reader five routes by which to tour the region. The traveler can venture directly up the main steamboat channel, or choose road and rail routes on the east and west shores of the river. Maps for each route are included, together with suggestions for excursions to many points of local and historical interest along the way. Over 250 photographs and paintings, and excerpts from American authors pepper the book, giving multiple perspectives of the region's long history.

x, 593 pp., ISBN 0-8232-1679-9/$35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8232-1680-2/$25.00 (paper)

The Tavern Lamps are Burning

Literary Journeys Through Six Regions and Four Centuries of New York State

Selected by Carl Carmer

In this anthology, we read Rudyard Kipling on Buffalo's grain elevators, Edith Wharton in the Hudson River country, Theodore Dreiser on Owego, Herman Melville on the Erie Canal, Henry James on Saratoga, Washington Irving on Knickerbocker, Samuel L. Clemens, De Witt Clinton, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and many more. This collection, complemented by 40 paintings from the collection of the New York State Historical Association, gives us upstate New York from a myriad of its inhabitants and visitors, a multi-faceted portrait of an area about which Carmer hopes "the peppered reader will be convinced that there is an over-all one of a kind nonesuchness that separates upstate from the rest of the world."

567 pp., ISBN 0-8232-1697-7/$35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8232-1698-5/$19.95 (paper)

Under the Sidewalks of New York

The Story of the Greatest Subway System in the World

Brian J. Cudahy

"Treats the subject thoroughly."

- Library Journal

"All the facts and figures are here in abundance."

- The New York Times Book Review

"This is a unique, authoritative, and popularly written history of the building, financing, and operation of the New York City subway system from the late 19th century to the present."

- Choice

xvii, 194 pp., ISBN 0-8232-1618-7/$19.95 (paper)

The Lithographs of Prentiss Taylor

A Catalogue Raisonné

Edited by Ingrid Rose and Roderick S. Quiroz.

This splendid catalogue raisonné of Taylor's lithographs is an important contribution to the growing body of resource materials documenting the history of America's graphic arts and artists of the twentieth century. Along with a selection of 142 lithographs by the artist, are six essays discussing the artist's life and work, a chronology, list of public collections and exhibitions, and bibliography.

xii, 132 pp/142 lithographs, ISBN 0-8232-1672-1/$49.95 (cloth)

Ordered Liberty

A Constitutional History of New York

Peter J. Galie

Ordered Liberty provides a comprehensive chronicle of the constitutional history of New York state. There currently exists no single or multi-volumed work in print which examines this history. The book uses as its organizational frame the nine constitutional conventions in New York history and the constitutions each produced. Each convention is placed in its political, legal, and economic context. The work of the convention is examined and the political theory reflected in each is explained. Finally, an assessment of each convention's accomplishments is presented. Subsequent sections of the volume examine appropriate methods by which to achieve that reform. An extensive bibliographical essay of primary and secondary sources on the state's constitutional history is also included.

xxv, 448 pp., ISBN-1651-9/$39.00 (cloth), ISBN-1652-x/$19.00 (paper)Martin Buber

Donald Moore, S.J.

Foreword by Maurice Friedman

Second Revised Edition

This new edition, with a Foreword by Buber scholar Maurice Friedman, contains a new preface by the author. The introduction addresses the new generation of readers who will be introduced to Buber. In addition, textual changes represent an increased awareness of gender, a recognition of important Buber scholarship since the first edition, and a strengthening of the author's original thesis: that Buber, the critic of religion, was, in the mold of the biblical prophets, a man of profound religious faith.

"This [book] is a comprehensive, systematic exposition of Buber's thought . . ."

- Library Journal

xxxiii, 286 pp., ISBN 0-8232-1639-x/$32.50 (cloth), ISBN 0-8232-1640-3/$18.00 (paper)

How to Think About War and Peace

Mortimer Adler

Introduction by John Logue

"I'm glad that Mortimer Adler's How to Think About War and Peace is being republished. It will help us think through how the U.N. can be restructured and empowered so that it can better achieve its noble goals."

- Robert Muller, former U.N. Assistant Secretary General

xx, 360 pp., ISBN 0-8232-1642-x/$30.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8232-1643-8/$18.00 (paper)

Classic American Philosophers

Max H. Fisch

Introduction by Nathan Houser

"The tone of the book is set by Professor Fisch's general introduction which is . . . the best brief essay on recent American philosophy that has appeared. The selections are well chosen, and the essays are useful both to students of philosophy and to general readers interested in the intellectual issues of today."

- Christian Century

"It is a book which merits and should have wide use in the many courses in American philosophy now being given at colleges over the country."

- Journal of Philosophy

xviii, 501 pp., ISBN-1657-8/$30.00 (cloth), ISBN-1658-6/$17.00 (paper)

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