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The lost spy : an American in Stalin's secret service / by Meier, Andrew.(CARDINAL)458866; Meier, Andrew;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-380) and index.For half a century, the case of Isaiah Oggins, a 1920s New York intellectual brutally murdered in 1947 on Stalin's orders, remained hidden in the secret files of the KGB and the FBI--a footnote buried in the rubble of the Cold War. Then, in 1992, it surfaced briefly, when Boris Yeltsin handed over a deeply censored dossier to the White House. This book at last reveals the truth: Oggins was one of the first Americans to spy for the Soviets. Based on six years of international sleuthing, journalist Meier traces Oggins's rise in beguiling detail--a brilliant Columbia University graduate sent to run a safe house in Berlin and spy on the Romanovs in Paris and the Japanese in Manchuria--and his fall: death by poisoning in a KGB laboratory.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Biographies.; Oggins, Isaiah.; Spies; Spies; Americans;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 5
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Morgenthau : power, privilege, and the rise of an American dynasty / by Meier, Andrew,author.(CARDINAL)458866;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 901-995) and index."Since their arrival in the United States from Germany in 1866, the Morgenthaus have been a linchpin in American history -- losing everything only to grow rich again, assimilating, and then climbing to the country's highest ranks of power. In the words of former Mayor Ed Koch, they are "the closest thing we've got to royalty in New York City." With unprecedented, exclusive access to family archives, award-winning journalist Andrew Meier chronicles this epic American story, revealing how the Morgenthaus amassed enormous wealth, advised presidents, shaped the New Deal, decried mass murder during the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust, waged war in the Mediterranean and Pacific, and built a dynasty that would remake the city of New York. Morgenthau begins with Lazarus, who arrived in New York City dreaming of rebuilding the fortune he had lost in his homeland of Germany. While Lazarus died destitute, in shame and alone, the family would rise once again with the ascendance of Henry, who became a real estate baron, and one of the first to suggest to Woodrow Wilson that he run for president. From there, the Morgenthaus would go on to influence the most consequential presidencies of the 20th century, as Henry's son Henry, Jr., became FDR's longest-serving aide, his Treasury Secretary during the War, and his confidante of 30 years. Finally, there was Robert Morgenthau, a decorated World War II hero who went on to become the longest-tenured district attorney in the history of New York City -- "DA for life," as he was known. As DA, he oversaw some of the most important legal cases in New York of the last fifty years, from the war on the Mafia, the advent of white-collar prosecutions, to the race wars of the 1970s -- and, of course, the Central Park Five case. At heart public servants and confidantes, the Morgenthaus propelled candidates into power. But they were often forced to stand loyally on the sidelines, even as they witnessed the great moral and human cost of political expediency. The saga of the Morgenthau family has lain half-hidden in the shadows for too long. At heart a family history, Morgenthau is also an American epic, as big and improbable as the country itself"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Morgenthau, Henry, 1856-1946.; Morgenthau, Henry, 1891-1967.; Morgenthau, Lazarus, 1815-1897.; Morgenthau, Robert M.; Morgenthau family.; Capitalists and financiers; Jews in public life; Jews;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Black earth : a journey through Russia after the fall / by Meier, Andrew.(CARDINAL)458866;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-495) and index."Andrew Meier stood witness to the tumultuous final years of the USSR. But when many other journalists had taken leave of this vexed and beguiling land, believing it drained of stories. Meier returned, covering Russia and the former Soviet states as a Moscow correspondent for Time magazine from 1996 to 2001. In all, Meier reported from the lands of the former Soviet Union longer than almost any other Western journalist." "Inspired by both Russophile American writers like Edmund Wilson and native geniuses like Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - both of whom had attempted to penetrate Russia's veils of secrecy and lore - Meier journeyed to the five corners of this resurgent and reputedly free land: newly rich Moscow, war-torn Chechnya, arctic Norilsk, haunted Sakhalin, and proudly crumbling St. Petersburg. Such a wide lens makes Black Earth perhaps the most insightful book on post-Soviet Russia written to date, one that captures its present limbo - a land rich in potential, yet its people ever fearful of staggering back into repression and tyranny."--Jacket.
Subjects: Meier, Andrew; Post-communism;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Ringo saves the day! / by Clements, Andrew,1949-2019.; Meier, Ellen,illustrator.;
A young woman and her husband are glad that they gave a stray kitten a home when it saves their lives by alerting them to a gas leak.370LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Anecdotes.; Cats; Cats; Pets;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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Journals, 1952-2000 / by Schlesinger, Arthur M.,Jr.(Arthur Meier),1917-2007.(CARDINAL)121553; Schlesinger, Andrew.(CARDINAL)469655; Schlesinger, Stephen C.(CARDINAL)159918;
The distinguished political historian's journals provide an intimate history of post-war America, the writer's contributions to multiple presidential administrations, and his relationships with numerous cultural and intellectual figures.
Subjects: Diaries.; Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007; Historians;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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The age of Jackson / by Schlesinger, Arthur M.,Jr.(Arthur Meier),1917-2007.(CARDINAL)121553;
Bibliography : pages 529-559.
Subjects: Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Age of Jackson / by Schlesinger, Arthur M.,Jr.(Arthur Meier),1917-2007.(CARDINAL)121553;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-559) and index.
Subjects: Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The age of Jackson / by Schlesinger, Arthur M.,Jr.(Arthur Meier),1917-2007.(CARDINAL)121553;
Bibliography: pages 529-559.
Subjects: Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845.; Old State Library Collection.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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Bach & friends [videorecording] / by Lawrence, Michael R.drtpro; Michael Lawrence Films.;
Disc 1. Bach & friends -- disc 2. Performances: Fugue in D major, BWV 532 (Felix Hell) -- Bach improvisation (Bobby McFerrin, vocalist) -- Cello suite no. 1, BWV 1007. Prelude (Matt Haimovitz, violoncello) -- Organ fugue in G major, BWV 577 (Mike Hawley) -- Orchestra suite no. 2, BWV 1067. Badinerie (Ward Swingle, Swingle Singers) -- Violin sonata no. 1, BWV 1001. Fugue / transcribed for lute (Manuel Barrueco, guitar) -- Improvisation based on Sleepers, awake, BWV 645 (John Bayless, Anatoly Larkin) -- Cello suite no. 2, BWV 1000. Prelude (Edgar Meyer, double bass) -- Goldberg variation 17, BWV 988 (Simone Dinnerstein) -- Violin partita no. 3 (BWV 1006). Prelude (Christ Thile, mandolin) -- Chromatic fantasy, BWV 903 (Richard Stoltzman, clarinet) -- Violin sonata no. 1, BWV 1001. Presto (Béla Fleck, banjo) -- Art of fugue, BWV 1080. Contrapunctus no. 1, 9 (Emerson String Quartet) -- Jesu, joy of man's desire, BWV 147 ; Amazing grace (John Bayless, piano) -- Two-part inventions. No. 4 in Dm, BWV 786 (Jake Shimabukuro, ukelele) -- Cello suite no. 6, BWV 1012. Allemande (Zuill Bailey, violoncello) -- Fugue in D minor, BWV 948 (Hilda Huang, piano) -- Partita no. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004. Chaconne (Joshua Bell, violin).Director of photography, Richard Chisolm ; sound design, Don Barto, Sr.Joshua Bell, violinist ; Robert Tiso, glass harpist ; Mike Hawley, pianist ; Matt Haimovitz, violoncellist ; Bobby McFerin, singer/conductor ; Simone Dinnerstein, pianist ; Hilary Hahn, violinist ; Chris Thile, mandolinist ; Emerson String Quartet ; Zuill Bailey, violoncellist ; Béla Fleck, banjo-player ; Richard Stoltzman, clarinetist ; Philip Glass, composer ; Felix Hell, organist ; Christoph Wolff, author/Bach scholar ; John Bayless, pianist/improviser ; Anatoly Larkin, pianist/composer ; Uri Caine, composer/pianist ; Ward Swingle ; The Swingle Singers ; Charles J. Limb, MRI brain/music researcher ; Tim Page, music critic ; John Q. Walker of Zenph Studios ; Sid Meier, game designer ; Jake Shimabukuro, ukuleleist ; Edgar Meyer, bassist/composer ; Peter Schickele/PDQ Bach ; João Carlos Martins, pianist/conductor ; Andrew Talle, musicologist/Bach scholar ; Manuel Barrueco, guitarist ; Hilda Huang, pianist ; Harlan Brothers, mathematician/composer.The first disc is a documentary film including interviews and performances by several musicians, musicologists, and researchers about Bach. The second disc consists of complete performances of Bach compositions from the film.DVD; audio stereo.; NTSC; region code 0 (worldwide).
Subjects: Documentary films.; Feature films.; Filmed performances.; Nonfiction films.; Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750.; Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750.; Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750.; Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750; Composers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The new taxonomy / by Wheeler, Quentin D.,1954-(CARDINAL)334461;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introductory : toward the new taxonomy / Quentin D. Wheeler -- Networks and their role in e-taxonomy / Malcolm J. Scoble -- Taxonomy as a team sport / Sandra Knapp -- Planetary biodiversity inventories as models for the new taxonomy / Lawrence M. Page -- On the use of taxonomic concepts in support of biodiversity research and taxonomy / Nico M. Franz, Robert K. Peet and Alan S. Weakley -- International infrastructure for enabling the new taxonomy : the role of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) / Larry Speers and James L. Edwards -- DNA sequence in taxonomy : opportunities and challenges / Rudolf Meier -- Animal names for all : ICZN, ZooBank and the new taxonomy / Andrew Polaszek, Richard Pyle and Doug Yanega -- Understanding morphology in systematic context : three-dimensional specimen ordination and recognition / Norman MacLeod -- Taxonomic shock and awe / Quentin D. Wheeler."The most fundamental of all biological sciences, taxonomy underpins any long term strategies for reconstructing the great tree of life or salvaging as much biodiversity as possible. Yet we are still unable to say with any certainty how many species are living on the Earth. The New Taxonomy describes how a confluence of theory, cyberinfrastructure and international teamwork can meet this unprecedented research challenge and marks an emerging field, cybertaxonomy." "The book examines the efforts of several international groups to catalog the world's biodiversity and make it accessible. An answer to Julian Huxley's The New Systematics, the book signals the beginning of an upward trajectory of taxonomy to meet the unprecedented challenges of the biodiversity crisis. Contemporary taxonomists reclaim the unique mission, goals and importance of taxonomy as an independent science. They cover technologies such as DNA evidence and its applications, computer-assisted species identification, digital morphology and E-typification."--Jacket.
Subjects: Biology; Communication in biology.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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