An American Looks at His World
Author | : Glenn Frank |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Social problems |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Glenn Frank |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Social problems |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ben Rhodes |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2021-06-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1984856065 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Vital reading for Americans and people anywhere who seek to understand what is happening ‘after the fall’ of the global system created by the United States” (New York Journal of Books), from the former White House aide, close confidant to President Barack Obama, and author of The World as It Is At a time when democracy in the United States is endangered as never before, Ben Rhodes spent years traveling the world to understand why. He visited dozens of countries, meeting with politicians and activists confronting the same nationalism and authoritarianism that are tearing America apart. Along the way, he discusses the growing authoritarianism of Vladimir Putin, and his aggression towards Ukraine, with the foremost opposition leader in Russia, who was subsequently poisoned and imprisoned; he profiled Hong Kong protesters who saw their movement snuffed out by China under Xi Jinping; and America itself reached the precipice of losing democracy before giving itself a fragile second chance. The characters and issues that Rhodes illuminates paint a picture that shows us where we are today—from Barack Obama to a rising generation of international leaders; from the authoritarian playbook endangering democracy to the flood of disinformation enabling authoritarianism. Ultimately, Rhodes writes personally and powerfully about finding hope in the belief that looking squarely at where America has gone wrong can make clear how essential it is to fight for what America is supposed to be, for our own country and the entire world.
Author | : Luke O'Neil |
Publisher | : OR Books |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1682192156 |
When Luke O’Neil isn’t angry, he’s asleep. When he’s awake, he gives vent to some of the most heartfelt, political and anger-fueled prose to power its way to the public sphere since Hunter S. Thompson smashed a typewriter’s keys. Welcome to Hell World is an unexpurgated selection of Luke O’Neil’s finest rants, near-poetic rhapsodies, and investigatory journalism. Racism, sexism, immigration, unemployment, Marcus Aurelius, opioid addiction, Iraq: all are processed through the O’Neil grinder. He details failings in his own life and in those he observes around him: and the result is a book that is at once intensely confessional and an energetic, unforgettable condemnation of American mores. Welcome to Hell World is, in the author’s words, a “fever dream nightmare of reporting and personal essays from one of the lowest periods in our country in recent memory.” It is also a burning example of some of the best writing you’re likely to read anywhere.
Author | : Glenn Frank |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bill McKibben |
Publisher | : Henry Holt |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-05-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1250823609 |
"McKibben grew up believing--knowing--that the United States was the greatest country on earth ... With the remarkable rise of suburbia, he assumed that all Americans would share in the wealth. But fifty years later, he finds himself in an increasingly doubtful nation strained by bleak racial and economic inequality, on a planet whose future is in peril. And he is curious: what the hell happened? In this ... cri de coeur, McKibben digs deep into our history (and his own well-meaning but not all-seeing past) and into the latest scholarship on race and inequality in America, on the rise of the religious right, and on our environmental crisis to explain how we got to this point"--Publisher marketing.
Author | : Herbert George Wells |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Brian Williams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Frontier and pioneer life |
ISBN | : 9780716658078 |
Author | : Nadine Stewart |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2021-01-14 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 1350063762 |
Studies of millinery tend to focus on hats, rather than the extraordinarily skilled workers who create them. American Milliners and their World sets out to redress the balance, examining the position of the milliner in American society from the 18th to the 20th century. Concentrating on the struggle of female hat-makers to claim their social place, it investigates how they were influenced by changing attitudes towards women in the workplace. Drawing on diaries, etiquette books, trade journals and contemporary literature, Stewart illustrates how making hats became big business, but milliners' working conditions failed to improve. Taking the reader from the Industrial Revolution of the 1760s to the sexual revolution of the 1960s, and from Belle Epoque feathers to elegant cloches and Jackie Kennedy's pillbox hat, the book offers a new insight into the rise and fall of a fashionable industry. Beautifully illustrated and packed with original research, American Milliners and their World blends fashion history and anthropology to tell the forgotten stories of the women behind some of the most iconic hats of the last three centuries.
Author | : Edward Caudill |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2013-11-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0252095308 |
Tracing the growth of creationism in America as a political movement, this book explains why the particularly American phenomenon of anti-evolution has succeeded as a popular belief. Conceptualizing the history of creationism as a strategic public relations campaign, Edward Caudill examines why this movement has captured the imagination of the American public, from the explosive Scopes trial of 1925 to today's heated battles over public school curricula. Caudill shows how creationists have appealed to cultural values such as individual rights and admiration of the rebel spirit, thus spinning creationism as a viable, even preferable, alternative to evolution. In particular, Caudill argues that the current anti-evolution campaign follows a template created by Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, the Scopes trial's primary combatants. Their celebrity status and dexterity with the press prefigured the Moral Majority's 1980s media blitz, more recent staunchly creationist politicians such as Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee, and creationists' savvy use of the Internet and museums to publicize their cause. Drawing from trial transcripts, media sources, films, and archival documents, Intelligently Designed highlights the importance of historical myth in popular culture, religion, and politics and situates this nearly century-old debate in American cultural history.
Author | : St. Louis Public Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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