1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911100547103321

Autore

Pease Donald E

Titolo

Theodor Seuss Geisel / / Donald E. Pease

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-46584-8

9786612465840

0-19-971735-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

Lives and legacies

Disciplina

813

813.52

813.54

813/.52

Soggetti

Authors, American - 20th century

Illustrators - United States

Children's literature - Authorship

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910978257403321

Autore

Quiroga Alejandro

Titolo

The People's Dictator : The Life of General Primo de Rivera

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Taylor & Francis, 2025

Oxford : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

1-04-032160-7

1-04-032122-4

1-03-269184-0

9781032691848

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (468 pages)

Collana

Routledge Studies on Contemporary Spain Series

Disciplina

946/.07092

B

Soggetti

Prime ministers - Spain

Dictators - Spain

Biographies

Spain Politics and government 1886-1931

Spain History 1868-1931

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.