The Vital Lie is the first book to examine the reality-illusion conflict in modern drama from Ibsen to present-day playwrights.

"An indispensable book for those who would relate Dreiser's philosophy to his fiction."  —Antioch Review

Details conditions in Alabama and the role of its citizens in a time of military crisis unknown since the Civil War

A warm and intimate account of a complex, contradictory man seen through the eyes of a long-standing friend and confidante.

Describes landmark free speech decisions of the Supreme Court while highlighting the issues of language, rhetoric, and communication that underlie them.

Almost from the time of Georgia’s settlement by Oglethorpe in 1733, both Georgians and Carolinians had made periodic unsuccessful attempts to conquer the Spanish Castillo San Marcos in St. Augustine; and during the American Revolution (in 1776, 1777, and 1778) the rebels tried without success to take the fortification, which was then a British stronghold.

Rabbi Morris Newfield led Temple Emanu-El in Birmingham from 1895-1940 and was counted among the most influential religious and social leaders of that city

Examines naval logistics, tactics, and strategy employed by the Union blockade off the Atlantic coast of the Confederacy.

A timely new novel evocative of the biblical story of the beheading of John the Baptist by a major American writer.