American Audacity
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American Audacity
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Author : Christopher Benfey
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2010-02-22
American Audacity written by Christopher Benfey and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
One of the foremost critics in contemporary American letters, Christopher Benfey has long been known for his brilliant and incisive essays. Appearing in such publications as the New York Review of Books, the New Republic, and the Times Literary Supplement, Benfey's writings have helped us reimagine the American literary canon. In American Audacity, Benfey gathers his finest writings on eminent American authors (including Emerson, Dickinson, Whitman, Millay, Faulkner, Frost, and Welty), bringing to his subjects---as the New York Times Book Review has said of his earlier work---"a scholar's thoroughness, a critic's astuteness and a storyteller's sense of drama." Although Benfey's interests range from art to literature to social history, this collection focuses on particular American writers and the various ways in which an American identity and culture inform their work. Broken into three sections, "Northerners,""Southerners," and "The Union Reconsidered," American Audacity explores a variety of canonical works, old (Emerson, Dickinson, Millay, Whitman), modern (Faulkner, Dos Passos), and more contemporary (Gary Snyder, E. L. Doctorow). Christopher Benfey is the author of numerous highly regarded books, including Emily Dickinson: Lives of a Poet; The Double Life of Stephen Crane; Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable; and, most recently, The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan. Benfey's poems have appeared in the Paris Review, Pequod, and Ploughshares. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Currently he is Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. "In its vigorous and original criticism of American writers, Christopher Benfey's American Audacity displays its own audacities on every page." ---William H. Pritchard
American Audacity In Defense Of Literary Daring
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Author : William Giraldi
language : en
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Release Date : 2018-08-21
American Audacity In Defense Of Literary Daring written by William Giraldi and has been published by Liveright Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
One of the most gifted literary essayists of his generation defends stylistic boldness and intellectual daring in American letters. Over the last decade William Giraldi has established himself as a charismatic and uncompromising literary essayist, “a literature-besotted Midas of prose” (Cynthia Ozick). Now, American Audacity gathers a selection of his most powerful considerations of American writers and themes—a “gorgeous fury of language and sensibility” (Walter Kirn)—including an introductory call to arms for twenty-first-century American literature, and a new appreciation of James Baldwin’s genius for nonfiction. With potent insights into the storied tradition of American letters, and written with a “commitment to the dynamism and dimensions of language,” American Audacity considers giants from the past (Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Harper Lee, Denis Johnson), some of our most well-known living critics and novelists (Harold Bloom, Stanley Fish, Katie Roiphe, Cormac McCarthy, Allan Gurganus, Elizabeth Spencer), as well as those cultural-literary themes that have concerned Giraldi as an American novelist (bestsellers, the “problem” of Catholic fiction, the art of hate mail, and his viral essay on bibliophilia). Demanding that literature be audacious, and urgent in its convictions, American Audacity is itself an act of intellectual daring, a compendium shot through with Giraldi’s “emboldened and emboldening critical voice” (Sven Birkerts). At a time when literature is threatened by ceaseless electronic bombardment, Giraldi argues that literature “must do what literature has always done: facilitate those silent spaces, remain steadfastly itself in its employment of slowness, interiority, grace, and in its marshaling of aesthetic sophistication and complexity.” American Audacity is ultimately an assertion of intelligence and discernment from a maker of “perfectly paced prose” (The New Yorker), a book that reaffirms the pleasure and wisdom of the deepest literary values.
Here S Audacity
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Author : Frank Shay
language : en
Publisher: Freeport, N.Y. : Books for Libraries Press
Release Date : 1967
Here S Audacity written by Frank Shay and has been published by Freeport, N.Y. : Books for Libraries Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Folklore categories.
The Audacity Of Hope
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Author : Barack Obama
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2007-10-05
The Audacity Of Hope written by Barack Obama and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-05 with Political Science categories.
Barack Obama's success in becoming President of the United States meant that he dramatically changed the face that his country presented to the world. In this bestselling book, Barack Obama discusses the importance of empathy in politics, his hopes for a different America with different policies, and how the ideals of its democracy can be renewed. With intimacy and self-deprecating humour, Obama describes his experiences as a politician and balancing his family life with his public vocation. His search for consensus and his respect for the democratic process inform every sentence. A senator and a lawyer, a professor and a father, a Christian and a sceptic, Barack Obama has written a book of transforming power that will inspire people the world over.
Profiles In Audacity
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Author : Alan Axelrod
language : en
Publisher: Union Square + ORM
Release Date : 2009-10-23
Profiles In Audacity written by Alan Axelrod and has been published by Union Square + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-23 with Business & Economics categories.
A journey through history’s great decisions—and the people who had the courage to make them: “Insightful.” —Booklist In brief, compelling, and inspiring vignettes, bestselling author and historian Alan Axelrod pinpoints and investigates the make-or-break event in the lives and careers of some of history’s most significant figures. Axelrod explores the fascinating question of why the people who made history made their choices—and conveys the resonance of those choices today. The forty-six profiles range from ancient times to the present day and include: Cleopatra’s decision to rescue Egypt Washington’s decision to cross the Delaware and win Gandhi’s decision to prevail against the British Empire without bloodshed Truman’s decision to drop the A-bomb and end WW II Rosa Parks’s decision to sit in for civil rights Boris Yeltsin’s decision to embrace a new world order Flight 93’s decision to take a stand against terror, and more
The Audacity Of Truth
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Author : Albert A. Hernandez D.Div.
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2018-10-12
The Audacity Of Truth written by Albert A. Hernandez D.Div. and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-12 with Political Science categories.
From terrorist attacks to anti-patriotism in our classrooms and beyond, the United States of America is under attack from all fronts. We are quickly losing our identity as Americans, and the American dream has become an American nightmare for many. Just look around. Child pornography is everywhere, filth permeates television airwaves, the homosexual and feminist movements have forced legislation for the legalization of marriage between gays and lesbians, and abortion and divorce are commonplace. Meanwhile, rebellious and obnoxious youth are everywhere, violence is constant, and our national and local governments are dysfunctional. Our health care system is also a mess: We are a fat, irresponsible, and a sick nation. We’ve neglected our health and abused our bodies. We are continuously and carelessly exhausting those systems designed to care for us, and the ramifications are taking a serious toll. It’s time to seek real solutions to the problems that plague us with the insights in The Audacity of Truth.
The Audacity Of Hope By Barack Obama Summary
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Author : QuickRead
language : en
Publisher: QuickRead.com
Release Date :
The Audacity Of Hope By Barack Obama Summary written by QuickRead and has been published by QuickRead.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Study Aids categories.
Do you want more free book summaries like this? Download our app for free at https://www.QuickRead.com/App and get access to hundreds of free book and audiobook summaries. Based on his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention, The Audacity of Hope helped catapult the then unknown Illinois senator into the national spotlight. Building off a sermon by his former pastor who used the same phrase, The Audacity of Hope laid out the ideas that would become the foundations of his 2008 presidential campaign. The book has 3 main points it tries to get across; that despite political differences all Americans share a core belief in community and in freedom, that a lot of our problems are due to politicians becoming more beholden to their donors than to their constituents, and that wars like the one on terrorism can’t be won using violence, since ultimately they’re wars of ideas.
Summary The Audacity Of Hope
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Author : BusinessNews Publishing,
language : en
Publisher: Primento
Release Date : 2017-01-30
Summary The Audacity Of Hope written by BusinessNews Publishing, and has been published by Primento this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-30 with Political Science categories.
The must-read summary of Barack Obama's book: “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Restoring the American Dream”. This complete summary of "The Audacity of Hope" by Barack Obama, the outgoing US president, presents his argument that American society has always been guided by optimism, and that this should be the driving force behind political campaigns and democracy, instead of the bitter partisanship that is so frequently seen. He assesses the role that faith plays in democracy and looks at how Americans can overcome their differences and tensions and tackle concrete problems. Added-value of this summary: • Save time • Understand American democracy and how it has become corrupted by partisanship • Expand your knowledge of American politics and society To learn more, read "The Audacity of Hope" and discover the outgoing president's suggestions for a more optimistic and coherent democracy.
Audacity
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Author : Jonathan Chait
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2017-01-17
Audacity written by Jonathan Chait and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-17 with Political Science categories.
"An essential starting point for those assessing the Obama presidency.” —Washington Monthly Two presidencies later, the time has never been better to revisit the legacy of Barack Obama. In Audacity, New York Magazine writer Jonathan Chait makes the unassailable case that, in the eyes of history, Obama will be viewed as one of America’s best and most accomplished presidents. Over the course of eight years, Barack Obama has amassed an array of outstanding achievements. His administration saved the American economy from collapse, expanded health insurance to millions who previously could not afford it, negotiated an historic nuclear deal with Iran, helped craft a groundbreaking international climate accord, reined in Wall Street and crafted a new vision of racial progress. He has done all of this despite a left that frequently disdained him as a sellout, and a hysterical right that did everything possible to destroy his agenda even when they agreed with what he was doing. Now, as the page turns to our next Commander in Chief, Jonathan Chait, acclaimed as one of the most incisive and meticulous political commentators in America, digs deep into Obama’s record on major policy fronts—economics, the environment, domestic reform, health care, race, foreign policy, and civil rights—to demonstrate why history will judge our forty-fourth president as among the greatest in history. Audacity does not shy away from Obama’s failures, most notably in foreign policy. Yet Chait convincingly shows that President Obama has accomplished what candidate Obama said he would, despite overwhelming opposition—and that the hopes of those who voted for him have not been dashed despite the smokescreen of extremist propaganda and the limits of short-term perspective.
The Audacity Of Deceit
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Author : Bradley S. O'Leary
language : en
Publisher: WND Books
Release Date : 2008
The Audacity Of Deceit written by Bradley S. O'Leary and has been published by WND Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Argues that Barack Obama's political agenda would promote more government intervention in health care, increase taxes to pay for social initiatives, and introduce a naiveté in foreign policy which would benefit rogue states around the world.