James Burns: 54 books
Female Voices from an Ewe Dance-drumming Community in Ghana
Our Music Has Become a Divine Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Ewe dance-drumming has been extensively studied throughout the history of ethnomusicology, but up to now there has not been a single study that addresses Ewe female musicians. James Burns redresses this deficiency through a detailed ethnography of a group of female musicians from the Dzigbordi community...
Revival Now
A Jesus Awakening
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
In Christian history, no phenomenon is clearer than the recurrence of revivals. A passion for repentance sweeps across a city, and those who had been unaware of the supernatural are now keenly aware of God’s presence. Gripped by conviction of wrongdoing, they throw everything aside and desperately...
by James Burns
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
By 1940 going to the movies was the most popular form of public leisure in Britain's empire. This book explores the social and cultural impact of the movies in colonial societies in the early cinema age.
Fire and Light
How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
"With this profound and magnificent book, drawing on his deep reservoir of thought and expertise in the humanities, James MacGregor Burns takes us into the fire's center. As a 21st-century philosopher, he brings to vivid life the incandescent personalities and ideas that embody the best in Western...
John Kennedy
A Political Profile
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The authorized biography of John F. Kennedy offers a fresh and candid look at what shaped the man America came to love and admire, just as he was on the cusp of the presidency
Historian, political scientist, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author James MacGregor Burns wrote Roosevelt: The Lion...
Packing the Court
The Rise of Judicial Power and the Coming Crisis of the Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
From renowned political theorist James MacGregor Burns, an incisive critique of the overreaching power of an ideological Supreme Court
For decades, Pulitzer Prize-winner James MacGregor Burns has been one of the great masters of the study of power and leadership in America. In Packing the Court,...
The American Experiment
The Vineyard of Liberty, The Workshop of Democracy, and The Crosswinds of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s stunning trilogy of American history, spanning the birth of the Constitution to the final days of the Cold War.
In these three volumes, Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winner James MacGregor Burns chronicles with depth and narrative...
by Robert Burns, James Barke, Sydney Goodsir Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The Merry Muses of Caledonia is among Burns' best known, but least read, work. This collection of bawdy poems, some written by and some collected by Burns, ranges from celebrations of spirited women in Ellibanks, to misogyny in There was twa wives and male fantasy in Nine Inch will please a lady....
by James MacGregor Burns
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
“A brilliant full-length portrait of Franklin Roosevelt the politician”—the first in an award-winning two-volume biography (The Christian Science Monitor).
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the longest serving president in United States history, reshaping the country during the crises of...
by James MacGregor Burns
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian examines transformational leaders from Moses to Machiavelli to Martin Luther King Jr. in this “impressive book” (The Washington Post).
Historian and political scientist James MacGregor Burns has spent much of his career documenting the use and misuse...
Running Alone
Presidential Leadership from JFK to Bush II
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Since mid-century, America has witnessed an ominous decline in presidential leadership, culminating in the failing presidency of George W. Bush today. How did this happen? In Running Alone, the distinguished political scientist and leadership expert James MacGregor Burns finds the origin of the problem...
by James MacGregor Burns
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
The “engrossing” Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning history of FDR’s final years (Barbara Tuchman).
The second entry in James Macgregor Burns’s definitive two-volume biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt begins with the president’s precedent-breaking third term election...
George Washington
The American Presidents Series: The 1st President, 1789-1797
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
A premier leadership scholar and an eighteenth-century expert define the special contributions and qualifications of our first president
Revolutionary hero, founding president, and first citizen of the young republic, George Washington was the most illustrious public man of his time, a man...
by Hezekiah Butterworth, James Whitcomb Riley, John Bowring
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
CONTENTS: HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH 1. First New England Christmas JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY 2. A Defective Santa Claus JOHN BOWRING 3. Watchman, Tell Us of the Night JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER 4. A Christmas Carmen JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER 5. The Mystic's Christmas L. FRANK BAUM 6. Little Bun Rabbit LEO TOLSTOY...