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【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Higher A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City【電子書籍】[ Neal Bascomb ]

＜p＞The Roaring Twenties in New York was a time of exuberant ambition, free-flowing optimism, an explosion of artistic expression in the age of Prohibition. New York was the city that embodied the spirit and strength of a newly powerful America.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In 1924, in the vibrant heart of Manhattan, a fierce rivalry was born. Two architects, William Van Alen and Craig Severance (former friends and successful partners, but now bitter adversaries), set out to imprint their individual marks on the greatest canvas in the world--the rapidly evolving skyline of New York City. Each man desired to build the city’s tallest building, or ‘skyscraper.’ Each would stop at nothing to outdo his rival.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Van Alen was a creative genius who envisioned a bold, contemporary building that would move beyond the tired architecture of the previous century. By a stroke of good fortune he found a larger-than-life patron in automobile magnate Walter Chrysler, and they set out to build the legendary Chrysler building. Severance, by comparison, was a brilliant businessman, and he tapped his circle of downtown, old-money investors to begin construction on the Manhattan Company Building at 40 Wall Street.＜/p＞ ＜p＞From ground-breaking to bricklaying, Van Alen and Severance fought a cunning duel of wills. Each man was forced to revamp his architectural design in an attempt to push higher, to overcome his rival in mid-construction, as the structures rose, floor by floor, in record time. Yet just as the battle was underway, a third party entered the arena and announced plans to build an even larger building. This project would be overseen by one of Chrysler’s principal rivals--a representative of the General Motors group--and the building ultimately became known as The Empire State Building.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Infused with narrative thrills and perfectly rendered historical and engineering detail, ＜em＞Higher＜/em＞ brings to life a sensational episode in American history. Author Neal Bascomb interweaves characters such as Al Smith and Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, leading up to an astonishing climax that illustrates one of the most ingenious (and secret) architectural achievements of all time.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Dancing on My Own Essays on Art, Collectivity, and Joy【電子書籍】[ Simon Wu ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A ＜em＞Literary Hub＜/em＞ Most Noteworthy Nonfiction Book of 2024 ? ＜em＞A Brooklyn Rail＜/em＞ Best Art Book of 2024 ? ＜em＞A The Millions＜/em＞ and ＜em＞Hyperallergic＜/em＞ Most Anticipated Book of 2024 ? A ＜em＞Publishers Weekly＜/em＞ Summer Reads Pick＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞"A book that emerges out of the moment, electric with timely energies."＜/strong＞ ＜em＞＜strong＞?Washington Post＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“Keen and refreshing.” ?Cathy Park Hong＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞"Genius." ?Claudia Rankine＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞An expansive and deeply personal essay collection which explores the aesthetics of class aspiration, the complications of creating art and fashion, and the limits of identity politics.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In Robyn’s 2010 track ＜em＞Dancing on My Own＜/em＞, the Swedish pop-singer chronicles a night on the dance floor in the shadow of a former lover. She is bitter, angry, and at times desperate, and yet by the time the chorus arrives her frustration has melted away. She decides to dance on her own, and in this way, she transforms her solitude into a more complex joy.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Taking inspiration from Robyn’s seminal track, emerging art critic and curator Simon Wu dances through the institutions of art, capitalism, and identity in these expertly researched, beautifully rendered essays. In “A Model Childhood” he catalogs the decades’ worth of clutter in his mother’s suburban garage and its meaning for himself and his family. In “For Everyone,” Wu explores the complicated sensation of the Telfar bag (often referred to as “the Brooklyn Birkin”) and asks whether fashion can truly be revolutionary in a capitalist systemーif something can truly be “for everyone” without undercutting someone else. Throughout, Wu centers the sticky vulnerability of living in a body in a world where history is mapped into every choice we make, every party drug we take, and every person we kiss.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Wu’s message is that to dance on your own is to move from critique into joy. To approach identity with the utmost sympathy for the kinds of belonging it might promise, and to look beyond it. For readers of Cathy Park Hong and Alexander Chee,＜em＞Dancing on My Own＜/em＞ is a deeply felt and ultimately triumphant anthem about the never-ending journey of discovering oneself, and introduces a brilliant new writer on the rise.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The SS General and Die Glocke【電子書籍】[ Terry Meyer ]

＜p＞The General and Die Glocke weaves a tale of mystery and intrigue based on speculation of true historic events when Jim Sawyer, a local newspaper reporter, witnesses a military convoy hauling off a crashed UFO under the cloak of top secrecy. Civilian witnesses to the crash reported the object as bell shaped and “not of this world”. As he tries to further investigate the incident, his inquiries are stonewalled by the police and military who only offer him a suspicious coverup story. At wit's end, Sawyer doesn't know where to turn. To his surprise, he is surreptitiously contacted by Colonel Bill Watson, a retired military officer who worked for the Counter Intelligence Corp during WWII. He had read Sawyer's report about a crashed UFO that appeared in the national newspapers and knew what it was. The Colonel tells Sawyer about the American military capturing a treasure trove of Nazi research and development into top secret advanced wonder weapons and their covert dealings with the evil genius, SS General Hans Kammler, who was in charge of these programs. It appears that General Kammler disappeared without a trace at the end of WWII with his prize project called Die Glocke or The Bell. The Bell was assigned the highest level of security by the SS as “war ending” and was the culmination of German science into anti-gravity propulsion, time warping, and weapons of mass destruction. Kammler was a brutal and ambitious taskmaster little known outside theThird Reich inner circle. By the end of WWII, he had risen to be one of the most powerful and influential officers in the SS and the Nazi Party. He was also responsible for the deaths of thousands of slave laborers who unmercifully toiled on his projects. As Germany was falling in defeat, Kammler gathered all the valuable files, records and prototypes including The Bell from top SS research centers and fled to a secret base in Norway. He made a covert deal with the American military to exchange everything in his possession for his freedom and anonymity. This would put the American military decades ahead of the Soviets in weapons research and development. With the deployment of stealth aircraft, nuclear armed ICBM rockets, night optics, surface to air missiles, anti-gravity propulsion, and many more unimaginable devices based on German science, the U.S. had what it needed to counter any growing Soviet threat. It was only decades later when Jim Murphy learned of the breakthrough development in aviation reconnaissance stemming from the science behind The Bell. It was something beyond his imagination and ultimately cost him his life.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】A Grand Guy The Art & Life of Terry Southern【電子書籍】[ Lee Hill ]

＜p＞"When they're no longer surprised or astonished or engaged by what you say, the ball game is over. If they find it repulsive, or outlandish, or disgusting, that's all right, or if they love it, that's all right, but if they just shrug it off, it's time to retire."＜/p＞ ＜p＞-- Terry Southern＜/p＞ ＜p＞A Grand Guy＜/p＞ ＜p＞He was the hipster's hipster, the perfect icon of cool. A small-town Texan who disdained his "good ol' boy" roots, he bopped with the Beats, hobnobbed with Sartre and Camus, and called William Faulkner friend. He was considered one of the most creative and original players in the ＜em＞Paris Review Quality Lit Game,＜/em＞ yet his greatest literary success was a semi pornographic pulp novel. For decades, the crowd he ran with was composed of the most famous creative artists of the day. He wrote ＜em＞Dr. Strangelove＜/em＞ with Stanley Kubrick, ＜em＞Easy Rider＜/em＞ with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper, and worked on Saturday Night Live with a younger, louder breed of sacred cow torpedoers. He's a face in the crowd on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (the guy in the sunglasses). Wherever the cultural action was, he was there, the life of every party -- Paris in the '50s, London in the swinging '60s, Greenwich Village, and Big Bad Hollywood. Brilliant, dynamic, irrepressible, he enjoyed remarkable success and then squandered it with almost superhuman excess. There was, and ever will be, only one Terry Southern.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In a biography as vibrant and colorful as the life it celebrates, Lee Hill masterfully explores the high and low times of the unique, incomparable Terry Southern, one of the most genuine talents of this or any other age. Illuminating, exhilarating, and sobering, it is an intimate portrait of an unequaled satirist and satyrist whose appetite for life was enormous -- and whose aim was sure and true as he took shots at consumerism, America's repressive political culture, upper-class amorality, and middle-class banality. But more than simply the story of one man, here is a wide-screen, Technicolor view of a century in the throes of profound cultural change -- frorn the first chilly blasts of the Cold War and McCarthyism to the Vietnam era and the Reagan years; from Miles and Kerouac to the Beatles, the Stones, and beyond. And always at the center of the whirlwind was Terry Southern -- outrageous, unpredictable, charming, erudite, and eternally cool; a brazen innovator and unappreciated genius; and most of all, A Grand Guy.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。