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UNINA9911100547103321 |
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Autore |
Pease Donald E |
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Titolo |
Theodor Seuss Geisel / / Donald E. Pease |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, c2010 |
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1-282-46584-8 |
9786612465840 |
0-19-971735-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (193 p.) |
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813 |
813.52 |
813.54 |
813/.52 |
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Authors, American - 20th century |
Illustrators - United States |
Children's literature - Authorship |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Preface; One: DR. SEUSS'S PASSAGE HOME; Two: BECOMING DR. SEUSS; Three: DR. SEUSS RETURNS; Four: DR. SEUSS AND HELEN GEISEL'S EMPIRE; Five: DR. SEUSS'S LEGACY; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index |
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Dr. Seuss' infectious rhymes, his blue-tufted, strong-willed creatures, and his knack for pithy, roundabout plots have been entertaining children and adults for decades. And as Donald Pease shows in this marvelous biography, the seemingly haphazard trajectory of Theodor Geisel's life bears a close resemblance to the zigzag plot lines of his children's books. Here is an engaging look at a man who indeed lived a zigzag life, by turns a cartoonist, ad agency artist (for Flit bug killer), author, caricaturist, documentary-film writer and producer, political cartoonist, and editor. Pease follows Ge |
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UNINA9910978257403321 |
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Autore |
Quiroga Alejandro |
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Titolo |
The People's Dictator : The Life of General Primo de Rivera |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Taylor & Francis, 2025 |
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Oxford : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2025 |
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©2025 |
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1-04-032160-7 |
1-04-032122-4 |
1-03-269184-0 |
9781032691848 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (468 pages) |
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Collana |
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Routledge Studies on Contemporary Spain Series |
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Prime ministers - Spain |
Dictators - Spain |
Biographies |
Spain Politics and government 1886-1931 |
Spain History 1868-1931 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction. Who and when -- Rebel without a cause (1870-1920) -- The forging of a conspirator (1920-1923) -- The military directory (1923-1925) -- The civil directory (1925-1930) -- Caudillo of the nation : propaganda, masculinity and the leadership cult -- The nationalisation of the masses -- Fall and death of a dictator -- What happened here? : History and memory of a dictator and his dictatorship. |
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This book is the first major biography of General Miguel Primo de Rivera, dictator of Spain between 1923 and 1930, who profoundly transformed Spain and played a key role in the shaping of a counterrevolutionary Europe in the interwar era. |
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