William J: 1364 books
F.B. Eyes
How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2015
Few institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover's white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind the scenes the FBI's hostility to black protest was energized by fear of and respect for black writing. Drawing on nearly 14,000 pages of newly released...
Choosing to Be Catholic
For the First Time or Once Again
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
First published in 2001, Choosing to Be Catholic has sold nearly 25,000 copies and maintains its status as a Catholic parish favorite. In this revised edition, Jesuit priest, master-teacher, and bestselling author William J. O’Malley, S.J., prompts seekers and skeptics alike to ask a new set of questions...
A Legacy of Preaching, Volume Two---Enlightenment to the Present Day
The Life, Theology, and Method of History’s Great Preachers
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
A Legacy of Preaching, Volume Two--Enlightenment to the Present Day explores the history and development of preaching through a biographical and theological examination of its most important preachers. Instead of teaching the history of preaching from the perspective of movements and eras, each contributor...
Tinseltown
Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
New York Times Bestseller • Edgar Award winner for Best Fact Crime
The Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true tale of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of...
by William J. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
“A vivid and convincing account of one of the most significant—but too often overlooked—figures in our history.”—Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion
Overshadowed by both his brilliant father and the brash and bold Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams has long...
A Century Turns
New Hopes, New Fears
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2010
In A Century Turns, William J. Bennett explores America's recent and momentous history?the contentious election of 1988, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of global Communism, the presidency of William Jefferson Clinton, the technological and commercial boom of the 1990s, the war on terror,...
Going to Pot
Why the Rush to Legalize Marijuana Is Harming America
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
William J. Bennett, former director of the National Drug Control policy under President George H.W. Bush and bestselling author of The Book of Virtues, and co-author Robert White provide strong societal and scientific arguments against the legalization of marijuana.
Marijuana, once considered...
The State of the Parties
The Changing Role of Contemporary American Parties
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
The State of the Parties brings readers up to date on party action in election years and in between. This essential party primer includes: new chapters on polarization between and within the parties in the aftermath of the 2012 election, demographic changes to America’s political parties and the...
Speculators in Empire
Iroquoia and the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
At the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the British secured the largest land cession in colonial North America. Crown representatives gained possession of an area claimed but not occupied by the Iroquois that encompassed parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia. The Iroquois,...
The Logic of Truth
St. Thomas Aquinas's Epistemology and Antonio Livi's Alethic Logic
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The “Dictatorship of Relativism”, the dominant culture of the post-modern world with its ideological roots in the Cartesian, Protestant, and French revolutions, is ultimately a revolt against Truth. It argues that man is incapable of knowing reality as reality but merely as physical-mathematical...
Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume I
Exploring and Evaluating the Debate
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume I lays the groundwork for a constructive contribution to the contemporary debate regarding divine action. Noted scholar, William J. Abraham argues that the concept of divine action is not a closed concept-like knowledge-but an open concept with a variety of...
Petrarchism at Work
Contextual Economies in the Age of Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
The Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarch (1304–1374) is best remembered today for vibrant and impassioned love poetry that helped to establish Italian as a literary language. Petrarch inspired later Renaissance writers, who produced an extraordinary body of work regarded today as perhaps...
The Methodology of Political Economy
Studying the Global Rural–Urban Matrix
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
The importance of the global rural-urban matrix is often overlooked due to urban-normativity. But sometimes agrarian populism and a pastoral rural imaginary result in the equally fallacy of a rural-normativity, as in Jeffersonian nostalgia for a lost way of life that never existed. The nature of rurality...
James Baldwin
The FBI File
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
The FBI’s secret dossier on the legendary and controversial writer, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
Decades before Black Lives Matter returned James Baldwin to prominence, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI considered the Harlem-born author the most powerful broker between black art...