Good News on the Frontier
Author | : Thomas H. Campbell |
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Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1965 |
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Author | : Thomas H. Campbell |
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Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1965 |
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Author | : Dave Eggers |
Publisher | : Knopf Canada |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2016-07-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0735272468 |
A captivating, often hilarious novel of family, loss, wilderness, and the curse of a violent America, Dave Eggers’s Heroes of the Frontier is a powerful examination of our contemporary life and a rousing story of adventure. Josie and her children’s father have split up, she’s been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice, and she’s grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed. When her ex asks to take the children to meet his new fiancée’s family, Josie makes a run for it, figuring Alaska is about as far as she can get without a passport. Josie and her kids, Paul and Ana, rent a rattling old RV named the Chateau, and at first their trip feels like a vacation: They see bears and bison, they eat hot dogs cooked on a bonfire, and they spend nights parked along icy cold rivers in dark forests. But as they drive, pushed north by the ubiquitous wildfires, Josie is chased by enemies both real and imagined, past mistakes pursuing her tiny family, even to the very edge of civilization. A tremendous new novel from the bestselling author of The Circle, Heroes of the Frontier is the darkly comic story of a mother and her two young children on a journey through an Alaskan wilderness plagued by wildfires and a uniquely American madness.
Author | : Greg Grandin |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Books |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2019-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1250179815 |
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE A new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump’s border wall. Ever since this nation’s inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolizing a future of endless promise, it was the foundation of the United States’ belief in itself as an exceptional nation – democratic, individualistic, forward-looking. Today, though, America hasa new symbol: the border wall. In The End of the Myth, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin explores the meaning of the frontier throughout the full sweep of U.S. history – from the American Revolution to the War of 1898, the New Deal to the election of 2016. For centuries, he shows, America’s constant expansion – fighting wars and opening markets – served as a “gate of escape,” helping to deflect domestic political and economic conflicts outward. But this deflection meant that the country’s problems, from racism to inequality, were never confronted directly. And now, the combined catastrophe of the 2008 financial meltdown and our unwinnable wars in the Middle East have slammed this gate shut, bringing political passions that had long been directed elsewhere back home. It is this new reality, Grandin says, that explains the rise of reactionary populism and racist nationalism, the extreme anger and polarization that catapulted Trump to the presidency. The border wall may or may not be built, but it will survive as a rallying point, an allegorical tombstone marking the end of American exceptionalism.
Author | : Thomas H. Campbell |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 2005-09-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1597523917 |
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Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : Missions |
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No. 3 of each volume contains the annual report and minutes of the annual meeting.
Author | : Robert Gish |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1988-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780803221215 |
The western frontier was officially pronounced closed in 1890, the year Harvey Fergusson was born in Albuquerque. He spent his life reopening it in a series of novels stretching from the classic Wolf Song to the belatedly acclaimed Grant of Kingdom and The Conquest of Don Pedro. In this first full biography and critical study, Robert F. Gish sees Fergusson as a modern frontiersman in love with the outdoors, women, and writing. The scion of New Mexico family prominent in business and politics, Fergusson moved restlessly from one new frontier to another, always seeking to recreate in his life and work the adventure and freedom enjoyed by his ancestors. After a strenuous open-air life by the Rio Grande he went east to raise a ruckus us a journalist and then to Hollywood as a screenwriter, all the while testing his sexual mettle. Finally freelance writing was the only frontier available to one of his imaginative energy. Fergusson?s early novel Wolf Song is still considered one of the best ever written about the mountain man. Gish shows the writer embracing the gloriously masculine and atavistic role of a ?lone rider? even as he scorned ?the worship of the primitive.? Fergusson struck up a friendship with H. L. Mencken and Theodore Dreiser (who influenced his literary style) and played a part in the development of Taos and Santa Fe as meccas for artists and writers. Based on extensive research, including Fergusson?s diaries and correspondence, Frontier?s End goes a long way toward reconciling the regional with the mainstream in American literature in the person of a serious novelist whose importance is finally being recognized.
Author | : Steuart Pennington |
Publisher | : Conceptualee Publishing |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 062042379X |
"Africa - the good news is the conclusion of a year of extensive research and includes contributions from over 40 leading writers on Africa - from the continent and beyond. It provides insights into what is happening in Africa today. It is about Africa, and the good in Africa"--Jacket.
Author | : Ross B. Emmett |
Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2009-06-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1848556578 |
Contains refereed articles on constrasting relational conceptions of the individual in economics. This book also covers the development of Adam Smith's style of lecturing; a comparison of problems encountered in the historian's work as editor, based upon editing Harrod's papers and Haberler's "Prosperity and Depression".
Author | : C.S. Song |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2002-05-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1579109586 |
The pioneer of contextual theology concludes his trilogy on the person and message of Jesus with a profound meditation on the significance of Jesus for a post-Christian world.
Author | : David Seed |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 184631755X |
This timely book investigates fiction that speculates about wars likely to break out in the near or distant future. Ranging widely across periods and conflicts real and imagined, Future Wars explores the interplay between politics, literature, science fiction, and war in a range of classic texts. Individual essays look at Reagan's infamous “Star Wars” project, nuclear fiction, Martian invasion, and the Pax Americana. The use of future war scenarios in military planning dates back to the nineteenth century, and Future Wars concludes with a US Army officer's assessment of the continuing usefulness of future wars fiction.