Overview :"I could have been a contender, I could have been somebody." So speaks the haunted former boxer Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) to his brother ... Read More
Overview :"Remarkably ambitious . . . an impressive tour de force." --Washington Post Book World For Alexander the Great, fame meant accomplishing wh... Read More
Overview :Now a classic, The World in a Frame covers the history of popular American films from the 1930s to the 1970s. Leo Braudy, one of America's l... Read More
Overview :Manliness has always been linked to physical prowess and to war; indeed the warrior has been the archetypal man across countless cultures th... Read More
Overview :An award-winning scholar and author charts four hundred years of monsters and how they reflect the culture that created them Leo Braudy, a f... Read More
Overview :Hollywood's famous sign, constructed of massive white block letters set into a steep hillside, is an emblem of the movie capital it looms ov... Read More
Overview :Hollywood's famous sign, constructed of massive white block letters set into a steep hillside, is an emblem of the movie capital it looms ov... Read More
Overview :Native Informant is Leo Braudy's first book after his widely acclaimed and award-winning history of fame, The Frenzy of Renown. With a verve... Read More