This is a book for anyone who values art and fears its misuse, and for those who want to understand what keeps totalitarian regimes in power and how culture - normally an unquestioned good - can play a part in this.

On March 16, 1978 Aldo Moro, a former Prime Minister of Italy, was ambushed in Rome. Within three minutes the gang killed his escort and bundled Moro into one of three getaway cars. An hour later the terrorist group the Red Brigades announced that Moro wa

The Movie Brats is about power in the American film industry--how the legendary moguls lost it, and how a new young generation of filmmakers came to inherit it. The authors submit that social changes in America--and not just the advent of television--were

Winner of the 1961 National Book Award; ; The dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback.; ; The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans st

It is the year 1327. Franciscans in an Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, but Brother William of Baskerville’s investigation is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

The renowned psychiatrist's most powerful and important book--a brilliant analysis of the crucial role that German doctors played in Nazi genocide.