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American Allegory
Lindy Hop and the Racial Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
“Perhaps,” wrote Ralph Ellison more than seventy years ago, “the zoot suit contains profound political meaning; perhaps the symmetrical frenzy of the Lindy-hop conceals clues to great potential power.” As Ellison noted then, many of our most mundane cultural forms are larger and more important...
A Long Saturday
Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
George Steiner is one of the preeminent intellectuals of our time. The Washington Post has declared that no one else “writing on literature can match him as polymath and polyglot, and few can equal the verve and eloquence of his writing,” while the New York Times says of his works that “the...
Richard Rorty
The Making of an American Philosopher
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
On his death in 2007, Richard Rorty was heralded by the New York Times as “one of the world’s most influential contemporary thinkers.” Controversial on the left and the right for his critiques of objectivity and political radicalism, Rorty experienced a renown denied to all but a handful of...
Narration
Four Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
Newly famous in the wake of the publication of her groundbreaking Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein delivered her Narration lectures to packed audiences at the University of Chicago in 1935. Stein had not been back to her home country since departing for France in 1903, and...
by Norman Maclean
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
In his eighty-seven years, Norman Maclean played many parts: fisherman, logger, firefighter, scholar, teacher. But it was a role he took up late in life, that of writer, that won him enduring fame and critical acclaim—as well as the devotion of readers worldwide. Though the 1976 collection A River...
American Diplomacy
Sixtieth-Anniversary Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
For more than sixty years, George F. Kennan’s American Diplomacy has been a standard work on American foreign policy. Drawing on his considerable diplomatic experience and expertise, Kennan offers an overview and critique of the foreign policy of an emerging great power whose claims to rightness...
Illinois Justice
The Scandal of 1969 and the Rise of John Paul Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Illinois political scandals reached new depths in the 1960s and ’70s. In Illinois Justice, Kenneth Manaster takes us behind the scenes of one of the most spectacular. The so-called Scandal of 1969 not only ended an Illinois Supreme Court justice’s aspirations to the US Supreme Court, but also...
American Egyptologist
The Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
James Henry Breasted (1865–1935) had a career that epitomizes our popular image of the archaeologist. Daring, handsome, and charismatic, he traveled on expeditions to remote and politically unstable corners of the Middle East, helped identify the tomb of King Tut, and was on the cover of Tim**e...
The Myth of Achievement Tests
The GED and the Role of Character in American Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Achievement tests play an important role in modern societies. They are used to evaluate schools, to assign students to tracks within schools, and to identify weaknesses in student knowledge. The GED is an achievement test used to grant the status of high school graduate to anyone who passes it. GED...
A Question of Upbringing
Book 1 of A Dance to the Music of Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally published—as twelve individual novels—but with...
Leo Strauss on Political Philosophy
Responding to the Challenge of Positivism and Historicism
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2018
Leo Strauss is known primarily for reviving classical political philosophy through careful analyses of works by ancient thinkers. As with his published writings, Strauss’s seminars devoted to specific philosophers were notoriously dense, accessible only to graduate students and scholars with a good...
The Way of Coyote
Shared Journeys in the Urban Wilds
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
A hiking trail through majestic mountains. A raw, unpeopled wilderness stretching as far as the eye can see. These are the settings we associate with our most famous books about nature. But Gavin Van Horn isn’t most nature writers. He lives and works not in some perfectly remote cabin in the woods...
Ancient Mesopotamia
Portrait of a Dead Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
"This splendid work of scholarship . . . sums up with economy and power all that the written record so far deciphered has to tell about the ancient and complementary civilizations of Babylon and Assyria."—Edward B. Garside, New York Times Book Review
Ancient Mesopotamia—the area...
The Venture of Islam, Volume 3
The Gunpower Empires and Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
The Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrated with charts and maps, Hodgson traces and interprets the historical development of Islamic civilization from before the birth of Muhammad to the middle...