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  | | Dateline_Liberated Paris The Hotel Scribe and the Invasion of the Press by Ronald Weber Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 2019 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-1850-4, ISBN: 1-5381-1850-5 "Vividly capturing the heady times in the waning months of World War II, Ronald Weber follows the exploits of Allied reporters as they flooded into liberated Paris after four dark years of Nazi occupation. He traces the remarkable adventures of the men and women who lived, worked, and played in the legendary Hôtel Scribe, set in a highly fashionable part of the largely undamaged city. Press jeeps and trailers packed the street outside, w ..." |
 | | Riverwatcher(Reprint) A Fly-Fishing Mystery by Ronald Weber Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2017 by Skyhorse Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-1924-8, ISBN: 1-5107-1924-5 " Even those who can’t tell a Royal Coachman from a Wooly Bugger will have fun.” Publishers Weekly Fly fishermen tend to be a peaceful bunch. But suddenly the sleepy, northern Michigan town of Ossning, home of the trout-packed Borchard River, has a killer in its midst. Charlie Orr, a solitary fisherman of advanced years, who spends his summers camping in a state forest campground, is brutally murdered one night while reading by lampl ..." |
 | | The Lisbon Route Entry and Escape in Nazi Europe by Ronald Weber Hardcover, 376 Pages, Published 2011 by Ivan R. Dee ISBN-13: 978-1-56663-876-0, ISBN: 1-56663-876-3 "The Lisbon Route tells of the extraordinary World War II transformation of Portugal's tranquil port city into the great escape hatch of Nazi Europe. Royalty, celebrities, diplomats, fleeing troops, and ordinary citizens desperately slogged their way across France and Spain to reach the neutral nation. Here the exiles found peace and plenty, though they often faced excruciating delays and uncertainties before they could book passage on s ..." |
 | | News of Paris(1st Edition) American Journalists in the City of Light Between the Wars by Ronald Weber Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2006 by Ivan R. Dee ISBN-13: 978-1-56663-676-6, ISBN: 1-56663-676-0 "A bumptious narrative history of American newspapermen in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, a time when serious journalism still went hand in hand with relative poverty, good times, and a carefree spirit cultivated by eccentric personalities. An absorbing and delightful book." |
 | | Hired Pens Professional Writers In America'S Golden Age Of Print by Ronald Weber, Ohio Univ Prtrade Paperback, 326 Pages, Published 1997 by Ohio University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8214-1205-3, ISBN: 0-8214-1205-1 "Hired Pens tells the story of the class of full-time independent professional writers who emerged in America in the 1830s and '40s and flourished during the great age of print that began after the Civil War and continued into the 1960s. While most accounts of the writing life focus on high-culture artists, Hired Pens treats authors who pursued the shifting popular tastes of Grub Street. Likewise it treats a literary marketplace that inc ..." |
 | | Riverwatcher A Fly-Fishing Mystery (Fly-Fishing Mysteries) by Ronald Weber Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2013 by Skyhorse Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-62087-810-1, ISBN: 1-62087-810-0 "Lottery winner and ex-journalist Donal Fitzgerald joins forces with his girlfriend, DNR conservation officer Mercy Virdon, to solve the mysterious death of a beloved angler, Charlie, who was murdered in his tent in a state campground and who was known by all—and who may have known too much. Set in the engaging small town of Ossning on the Borchard River in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula—an angler’s dream, filled with eccentric, believable, ..." |
 | | The Midwestern Ascendancy in American Writing(1st Edition) (Midwestern History and Culture) by Ronald Weber Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1992 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-36366-4, ISBN: 0-253-36366-7 ""... thoughtful, engaging... [Weber’s] kind of literary history succeeds where the more fashionable kind often fails: It sends the reader back to the books themselves." —The Bloomsbury Review"Weber... completes an important chapter in a literary history that closes with the advent of modernism... " —American Literature"... well-written, balanced, and extraordinarily sure-footed account... " —The Annals of Iowa"... this book is a must fo ..." |
 | | News of Paris American Journalists in the City of Light Between the Wars by Ronald Weber Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2007 by Ivan R. Dee ISBN-13: 978-1-56663-732-9, ISBN: 1-56663-732-5 "The great American exodus to Paris after World War I included not only writers and artists but journalists. They came by the score, the raw and the accomplished, and in their baggage most carried the dream of eventually becoming poets, short-story writers, or novelists. Meanwhile Paris offered them an overwhelming advantage (coupled with a favorable postwar exchange rate and freedom from Prohibition) by providing jobs that enabled them ..." |
 | | Catch And Keep (Worldwide Library Mysteries) by Ronald Weber Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2001 by Worldwide Library ISBN-13: 978-0-373-26388-2, ISBN: 0-373-26388-0 "Former journalist Fitzgerald joins forces with his girlfriend, Mercy, to probe the murders of an old colleague, who had been working on a story about the controversial "catch and release" fishing policy in Michigan's lower peninsula, and her husband, and finds himself up against a powerful militia group. Reprint." |
 | | Aluminum Hatch by Ronald Weber Paperback, 253 Pages, Published 1999 by Worldwide Library ISBN-13: 978-0-373-26324-0, ISBN: 0-373-26324-4 "When much-hated Link Pickett, owner of a camping/fishing establishment on Michigan's Borchard River, is found dead in a canoe, rabid environmentalist Vernon Kelso is immediately suspected, but his son, Kit, and ex-wife, Mercy, are determined to prove his innocence. Reprint." |
 | | Seeing Earth(1st Edition) Literary Responses To Space Exploration by Ronald Weber Hardcover, 152 Pages, Published 1985 by Ohio University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8214-0791-2, ISBN: 0-8214-0791-0 "As our interest in space continues to grow, the cultural effects of space exploration become important. In Seeing Earth, Ronald Weber focuses on the literary response to this new frontier, examining an area of contemporary expression that has remained until now virtually untouched.The author surveys what has been written about space exploration and calls attention to its dominant use as a means of deflecting attention back to earth and ..." |
 | | An Almost Chosen People(1st Edition) The Moral Aspirations of Americans by Ronald Weber, Walter N. Nicgorski Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 1976 by University Of Notre Dame Press ISBN-13: 978-0-268-00581-8, ISBN: 0-268-00581-8 |
 | | Catch and Keep(1st Edition) A Mystery by Ronald Weber Hardcover, 255 Pages, Published 2000 by Write Way Pub ISBN-13: 978-1-885173-25-6, ISBN: 1-885173-25-3 "In this sequel to Ronald Weber's Aluminum Hatch, Fitzgerald gets a call from a colleague in the newspaper business, asking Fitzgerald to see if he can locate a wannabe reporter who hasn't checked in for some time. Reluctantly, Fitzgerald drives out to the remote lake area where the reporter lives, and finds her dead from a gunshot to the head. After calling in his discovery to the sheriff, Fitzgerald learns that the reporter's husbands ..." |
 | | The Aluminum Hatch by Ronald Weber Hardcover, 207 Pages, Published 1998 by Write Way Pub ISBN-13: 978-1-885173-48-5, ISBN: 1-885173-48-2 "When much-hated Link Pickett, owner of a camping/fishing establishment on Michigan's Borchard River, is found dead in a canoe, rabid environmentalist Vernon Kelso is immediately suspected, but his son, Kit, and ex-wife, Mercy, are determined to prove hisinnocence" |
 | | Hired Pens(1st Edition) Professional Writers in America's Golden Age of Print by Ronald Weber Hardcover, 326 Pages, Published 1997 by Ohio University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8214-1204-6, ISBN: 0-8214-1204-3 "Ever wonder how Franklin W. Dixon or Carolyn Keene managed to churn out the hundreds of titles in their respective Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series? The answer is, they didn't. Franklin W. Dixon and Carolyn Keene were the noms de plume of a small army of anonymous writers-for-hire who produced a neverending stream of adventure tales aimed at young readers. In Hired Pens, author Ronald Weber explores the so-called golden age of pri ..." |
 | | Wisconsin Government and Politics(8th Edition) by Ronald Weber Paperback, Published 2004 ISBN-13: 978-0-07-301960-4, ISBN: 0-07-301960-7 "University School Book" |
 | | Hemingway's Art of Non-Fiction(1st Edition) by Ronald Weber Paperback, 182 Pages, Published 2014 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-349-20625-4, ISBN: 1-349-20625-3 "Ernest Hemingway devoted a large part of his writing life to nonfiction in the form of newspaper and magazine journalism and especially in the form of five full-length books. His nonfiction, however, is usually taken only as a diversion from the main business of his career, fiction, and examined only for light shed on the fiction. In this study - the first devoted exclusively to Hemingway's nonfiction books, the heart of his effort as a ..." |
 | | Riverwatcher A Fly-Fishing Mystery by Ronald Weber 256 Pages, Published 2013 by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-1-62636-292-5, ISBN: 1-62636-292-0 "Big Rapids is a college town, and in college towns you can get drugs anywhere you want. So Calvin thinks Charlie brought a stash ... “Good Lord.” “I told Calvin there's one big flaw in his reasoning: Charlie didn't smoke pot anymore. All he did at night on the river was sip whiskey, puff on his pipe. Plain tobacco. If Charlie was still smoking pot, we'd all know because we fished with him.” “What did Calvin say to that?” “That we'r ..." |
 | | The Lisbon Route Entry and Escape in Nazi Europe by Ronald Weber 376 Pages, Published 2011 by Government Institutes ISBN-13: 978-1-56663-892-0, ISBN: 1-56663-892-5 ""k * Rupert Downing's Paris—to—Lisbon escape took place at the same time as Arthur Koestler's and covered some of the same terrain. The book he wrote about the journey appeared in 1941, the year of Koestler's ac— count. But Downing's playful title, IfI Laugh: The Chronicle ofMy Strange Adventures in the Great Paris Exodus—lune 1940, set his work decidedly apart from Koestler's embittered Scum of the Earth. A British playwright and ..." |
 | | Lisbon Route, the Entry and Escape in Nazi Europe by Ronald Weber Published 2011 ISBN-13: 978-1-282-99193-4, ISBN: 1-282-99193-0 |
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