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Sir Francis Galton was an influential mentor for the educational psychologists who supplied crucial doctrine to American eugenics from 1903 to 1930. Yet the nature of his influence has never been specified. The psychologists' own claim as to the Galton's contribution -- that he provided sufficient justification for their absolutist hereditarianism -- was clearly disingenuous. Rather, he appears to have functioned as a model for these figures, ...

Two Plays is the title of a new book by Gerald F. Sweeney. Featured are two full-length dramas: one called Divine Privilege set in Paris in the 1920's among expatriate American writers, the other A Porcelain to Mend concerns American journalists during the Chinese Revolution. The explosion of modern culture following the atrocities of World War I centered in Paris where Art (Picasso), Music (Stravinsky) and Literature (James Joyce) blossomed w...

Gerald F. Sweeney's new book is titled "US Composers and Poets - The Intersection of American Classical Music and American Literature."The relationship between American composers and American writers has always been close. Creating the music to accompany and enhance the prose and poetry pf our greatest writers has given us a treasury of musical masterpieces, including Ives' "Concord Sonata" after Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne and the Alcotts- as...

There was a magic time in the last century when New York became the world's capital of the arts and commerce. Confidant in world affairs and awakening to the revelations of the 1960's, Manhattan thrived on creativity and thrilled at its place and powerful effect on interpersonal discovery. Here are the stories about those exciting and electric times and the people swept up in the new normal of modern life-about their personal, intimate relatio...

Comes the Electric Circus is a novel that reflects the tumultuous changes from the traditional 1950's to the mind-blowing 60's. The story of the romance between two young Manhattanites, at a time when New York became the world's capitol of finance and the arts, captures the evolution of their love in the midst of the radical developments in the social and intellectual shifts that re-shaped America. Working in the lively television and magazine...

Wizard Ho!, the seventh and last novel in the Columbiad series, follows a merry band of Mahattanites in their search for a Wizard and his sidekick, Ripple, who operate a clandestine radio station that represents the embattled voice of the twentieth century intent on identifying the American soul.An interacial couple, Jim and Columbia Ruth, inspires a parade of dancers, musicians, videographers, writers and film buffs to find these radio maveri...

Crashing into Sunrise portrays a rowdy youth's transition from teenage mayhem to the awareness of the larger world around him. It depicts the emotional and intellectual upheaval of a young man of the 1940s surrounded by his adventurous buddies and the girls who shine along his path. This is Jim Mahoney, a reckless teenager with an unfinished personality and flawed character who discovers the force and power of ideas, books, love and music in c...

Eagles Rising chronicles an Irish-American family's transition from rural Iowa to Chicago where they confront labor, gangster and race wars. The WWI hero, haunted by a youthful anarchist plot, seeks support from his moxie wife and a Wizard. Eagles Rising is one of several stand-alone novels about the lives of an Irish-American family in the 20th century.

A TOURNAMENT OF A DISTINGUISHED WHITE ORDER follows the complicated love duel between a creative Army private and a sensuous young actress, a pair energized and troubled by a romance set during the Korean War. Jim Mahoney learns how to soldier while Fawn Evans battles for a career on the New York stage during Broadway's Golden Age. They become adults in the turbulent Fifties that are roiled with conflicts concerning the McCarthy hearings, the ...

A novel about how men and women love differently, notably a war hero and a true American courtesan. The Jazz Age is about to erupt. Six vibrant, wealthy young youths seek fulfillment in Long Island's polo society, Manhattan and old Southampton.

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