Present Tense An American Editor S Odyssey
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Present Tense An American Editor S Odyssey
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Author : Norman Cousins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
Present Tense An American Editor S Odyssey written by Norman Cousins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Editorials categories.
The writings in this book reflect eh issues and diversions that preoccupied the editorial page and the editor's articles in the Saturday Review -- Preface.
The American Intellectual Elite
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Author : John Sommer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-12
The American Intellectual Elite written by John Sommer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-12 with Social Science categories.
There are almost as many works about intellectuals as there are intellectuals. Perhaps this is because intellectuals are masters of the word and their mastery is often used to write about themselves. Indeed, with the possible exceptions of sports figures and film actors, intellectuals may be the most overpublicized people in America. In this classic study, originally published in 1974, Charles Kadushin examines the attitudes of that class of people known as the American intellectual elite. While most works on intellectuals first establish who should be included under the title "intellectual," and debate their characteristics, Kadushin instead sets forth a sociological history of leading American intellectuals of the late 1960s. The book's concern, however, is primarily with time and place. While The American Intellectual Elite is very much about social circles and the networked "small world" of intellectuals defined by the institutions such as the journals and magazines around which they gathered, the uniqueness of this volume is the recognition that fact must come before theory. Thus, the collective attitude of leading intellectuals of the sixties are presented in a straightforward and dispassionate manner on topics as diverse as the Vietnam War, race relations, foreign and domestic policy, and the place of intellectuals in the resolution of such issues. Now in paperback with a new introduction by the author, The American Intellectual Elite is an influential work that will be valued by students of sociology, members of the intellectual elite, and professionals and students of contemporary American history.
An American Ordeal
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Author : Charles DeBenedetti
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 1990-03-01
An American Ordeal written by Charles DeBenedetti and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-03-01 with Political Science categories.
The first interpretive history that covers the antiwar movement in this country throughout the entire Vietnam era. Richly illustrated with compelling photographs of the times, the book chronicles the war struggle that provoked a struggle about America.
Picturing Model Citizens
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Author : Thy Phu
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 2011-05-13
Picturing Model Citizens written by Thy Phu and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-13 with Social Science categories.
At the heart of the model minority myth—often associated with Asian Americans—is the concept of civility. In this groundbreaking book, Picturing Model Citizens, Thy Phu exposes the complex links between civility and citizenship, and argues that civility plays a crucial role in constructing Asian American citizenship. Featuring works by Arnold Genthe, Carl Iwasaki, Toyo Miyatake, Nick Ut, and others, Picturing Model Citizens traces the trope of civility from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Through an examination of photographs of Chinese immigrants, Japanese internment camps, the Hiroshima Maidens project, napalm victims, and the SARS epidemic, Phu explores civility's unexpected appearance in images that draw on discourses of intimacy, cultivation, apology, and hygiene. She reveals how Asian American visual culture illustrates not only cultural ideas of civility, but also contests the contradictions of state-defined citizenship.
Major 20th Century Writers
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Author : Bryan Ryan
language : en
Publisher: Gale Cengage
Release Date : 1991
Major 20th Century Writers written by Bryan Ryan and has been published by Gale Cengage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
VOL. 1 (A-D) VOL. 2 (E-K) VOL 3. (L-Q) VOL. 4 (R-Z/INDEXES).
American Culture American Tastes
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Author : Michael Kammen
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2012-10-03
American Culture American Tastes written by Michael Kammen and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-03 with Social Science categories.
Americans have a long history of public arguments about taste, the uses of leisure, and what is culturally appropriate in a democracy that has a strong work ethic. Michael Kammen surveys these debates as well as our changing taste preferences, especially in the past century, and the shifting perceptions that have accompanied them. Professor Kammen shows how the post-traditional popular culture that flourished after the 1880s became full-blown mass culture after World War II, in an era of unprecedented affluence and travel. He charts the influence of advertising and opinion polling; the development of standardized products, shopping centers, and mass-marketing; the separation of youth and adult culture; the gradual repudiation of the genteel tradition; and the commercialization of organized entertainment. He stresses the significance of television in the shaping of mass culture, and of consumerism in its reconfiguration over the past two decades. Focusing on our own time, Kammen discusses the use of the fluid nature of cultural taste to enlarge audiences and increase revenues, and reveals how the public role of intellectuals and cultural critics has declined as the power of corporate sponsors and promoters has risen. As a result of this diminution of cultural authority, he says, definitive pronouncements have been replaced by divergent points of view, and there is, as well, a tendency to blur fact and fiction, reality and illusion. An important commentary on the often conflicting ways Americans have understood, defined, and talked about their changing culture in the twentieth century.
The New York Times Book Review
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967-10
The New York Times Book Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967-10 with Books categories.
Save The Humans
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Author : Jeremy Brecher
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-11-17
Save The Humans written by Jeremy Brecher and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-17 with Political Science categories.
Save the Humans? argues that individual self-interest depends on common preservation - cooperation to provide for mutual well-being. As world leaders fail to cooperate to address climate change, nuclear proliferation, economic meltdown and other threats to our survival, increasing numbers of people experience a pervasive sense of denial and despair. But Jeremy Brecher has seen common preservation in action, and in Save the Humans? he shows how it works. From Gandhi's civil disobedience campaigns in India, to the 2011 uprisings throughout the Middle East, Brecher shows what we can learn from past social movements to help us confront today's global threats.
John Ciardi
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Author : Vince Clemente
language : en
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Release Date : 1987-01-01
John Ciardi written by Vince Clemente and has been published by University of Arkansas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Opposition To War 2 Volumes
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Author : Mitchell K. Hall
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2018-01-04
Opposition To War 2 Volumes written by Mitchell K. Hall and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-04 with History categories.
How have Americans sought peaceful, rather than destructive, solutions to domestic and world conflict? This two-volume set documents peace and antiwar movements in the United States from the colonial era to the present. Although national leaders often claim to be fighting to achieve peace, the real peace seekers struggle against enormous resistance to their message and have often faced persecution for their efforts. Despite a well-established pattern of being involved in wars, the United States also has a long tradition of citizens who made extensive efforts to build and maintain peaceful societies and prevent the destructive human and material costs of war. Unarmed activists have most consistently upheld American values at home. Opposition to War: An Encyclopedia of U.S. Peace and Antiwar Movements investigates this historical tradition of resistance to involvement in armed conflict—an especially important and relevant topic today as the nation has been mired in numerous military conflicts throughout most of the current century. The book examines a largely misunderstood and underappreciated minority of Americans who have committed themselves to finding peaceful resolutions to domestic and international conflicts—individuals who have proposed and conducted an array of practical and creative methods for peaceful change, from the transformation of individual behavior to the development of international governing and legal systems, for more than 250 years. Readers will learn how individuals working alone or organized into societies of various size have steadfastly campaigned to stop war, end the arms race, eliminate the underlying causes of war, and defend the civil liberties of Americans when wartime nationalism most threatens them.