The American Imagination
Author | : Times Literary Supplement |
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Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
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Author | : Times Literary Supplement |
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Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
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Release | : 2002 |
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Author | : Benjamin Crocker Clough |
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Total Pages | : 707 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : American wit and humor |
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Author | : Neal Gabler |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 914 |
Release | : 2007-10-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0679757473 |
The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history: Walt Disney. Walt Disney was a true visionary whose desire for escape, iron determination and obsessive perfectionism transformed animation from a novelty to an art form, first with Mickey Mouse and then with his feature films–most notably Snow White, Fantasia, and Bambi. In his superb biography, Neal Gabler shows us how, over the course of two decades, Disney revolutionized the entertainment industry. In a way that was unprecedented and later widely imitated, he built a synergistic empire that combined film, television, theme parks, music, book publishing, and merchandise. Walt Disney is a revelation of both the work and the man–of both the remarkable accomplishment and the hidden life. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography USA Today Biography of the Year
Author | : Howard E. McCurdy |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2011-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801898684 |
People dreamed of cosmic exploration—winged spaceships and lunar voyages; space stations and robot astronauts—long before it actually happened. Space and the American Imagination traces the emergence of space travel in the popular mind, its expression in science fiction, and its influence on national space programs. Space exploration dramatically illustrates the power of imagination. Howard E. McCurdy shows how that power inspired people to attempt what they once deemed impossible. In a mere half-century since the launch of the first Earth-orbiting satellite in 1957, humans achieved much of what they had once only read about in the fiction of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells and the nonfiction of Willy Ley. Reaching these goals, however, required broad-based support, and McCurdy examines how advocates employed familiar metaphors to excite interest (promising, for example, that space exploration would recreate the American frontier experience) and prepare the public for daring missions into space. When unexpected realities and harsh obstacles threatened their progress, the space community intensified efforts to make their wildest dreams come true. This lively and important work remains relevant given contemporary questions about future plans at NASA. Fully revised and updated since its original publication in 1997, Space and the American Imagination includes a reworked introduction and conclusion and new chapters on robotics and space commerce.
Author | : Ben Crocker Clough |
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Total Pages | : 734 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : Kenneth Schuyler Lynn |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : American fiction |
ISBN | : 9780837162690 |
Author | : Gary Scott Smith |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2011-06-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0199830703 |
Does heaven exist? If so, what is it like? And how does one get in? Throughout history, painters, poets, philosophers, pastors, and many ordinary people have pondered these questions. Perhaps no other topic captures the popular imagination quite like heaven. Gary Scott Smith examines how Americans from the Puritans to the present have imagined heaven. He argues that whether Americans have perceived heaven as reality or fantasy, as God's home or a human invention, as a source of inspiration and comfort or an opiate that distracts from earthly life, or as a place of worship or a perpetual playground has varied largely according to the spirit of the age. In the colonial era, conceptions of heaven focused primarily on the glory of God. For the Victorians, heaven was a warm, comfortable home where people would live forever with their family and friends. Today, heaven is often less distinctively Christian and more of a celestial entertainment center or a paradise where everyone can reach his full potential. Drawing on an astounding array of sources, including works of art, music, sociology, psychology, folklore, liturgy, sermons, poetry, fiction, jokes, and devotional books, Smith paints a sweeping, provocative portrait of what Americans-from Jonathan Edwards to Mitch Albom-have thought about heaven.
Author | : Times, London. Literary supplement |
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Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1959 |
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Total Pages | : 209 |
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