American Spectator
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Publisher | : Greenwood Press |
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Release | : 1971-01-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780313216220 |
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Publisher | : Greenwood Press |
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Release | : 1971-01-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780313216220 |
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Total Pages | : 854 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Publisher | : Abbey Publishing |
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Release | : 1971 |
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ISBN | : 9780313216220 |
Author | : R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. |
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Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
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A compilation of The American Spectator's hilarious monthly column, The Continuing Crisis, as chronicled for four decades by founder and editor-in-chief, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
Author | : Saturday Evening Club |
Publisher | : Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, [19--] |
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Release | : 19?? |
Genre | : Periodicals |
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Author | : F.H. Buckley |
Publisher | : Encounter Books |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2020-01-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1641770813 |
Americans have never been more divided, and we’re ripe for a breakup. The bitter partisan animosities, the legislative gridlock, the growing acceptance of violence in the name of political virtue—it all invites us to think that we’d be happier were we two different countries. In all the ways that matter, save for the naked force of law, we are already two nations. There’s another reason why secession beckons, says F.H. Buckley: we’re too big. In population and area, the United States is one of the biggest countries in the world, and American Secession provides data showing that smaller countries are happier and less corrupt. They’re less inclined to throw their weight around militarily, and they’re freer too. There are advantages to bigness, certainly, but the costs exceed the benefits. On many counts, bigness is badness. Across the world, large countries are staring down secession movements. Many have already split apart. Do we imagine that we, almost alone in the world, are immune? We had a civil war to prevent a secession, and we’re tempted to see that terrible precedent as proof against another effort. This book explodes that comforting belief and shows just how easy it would be for a state to exit the Union if that’s what its voters wanted. But if that isn’t what we really want, Buckley proposes another option, a kind of Secession Lite, that could heal our divisions while allowing us to keep our identity as Americans.
Author | : Eric Gordon |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1584658037 |
How conceptions of the American city changed in response to new media technologies
Author | : Donald J. Devine |
Publisher | : Encounter Books |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2021-01-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1641771526 |
Western civilization fashioned a capitalism that created a worldwide economic cornucopia and higher standards of living than any other system, yet its legitimacy is often questioned by its beneficiaries. Boston University Emeritus Professor Angelo M. Codevilla, proclaims Donald Devine’s The Enduring Tension between Capitalism and the Moral Order, “the best answer to this question since Adam Smith’s. Like Smith, Devine shows the mutually sustaining nature of morality and economic freedom, and provides a much-needed clearing away of the confusion with which recent authors have befogged this essential relationship.” Devine begins with Karl Marx setting capitalism’s roots in feudalism and the implications of that traditionalist inheritance, finally transformed by Rousseau’s “Christian heresy,” which turned the vision of heavenly perfection into an impossibly perfect ideal for earthly society. To unravel this capitalist enigma, Devine identifies the roots of the confusion, critiques the rationalized responses, and identifies the remedy—the revival of an historical Lockean pluralism able to fuse a moral scaffolding sufficient to hold the walls and preserve the best of capitalist civilization.
Author | : George Jean Nathan |
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Release | : 1934 |
Genre | : Literature |
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Author | : Wendy Bellion |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2012-12-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 080783890X |
In this richly illustrated study, the first book-length exploration of illusionistic art in the early United States, Wendy Bellion investigates Americans' experiences with material forms of visual deception and argues that encounters with illusory art shaped their understanding of knowledge, representation, and subjectivity between 1790 and 1825. Focusing on the work of the well-known Peale family and their Philadelphia Museum, as well as other Philadelphians, Bellion explores the range of illusions encountered in public spaces, from trompe l'oeil paintings and drawings at art exhibitions to ephemeral displays of phantasmagoria, "Invisible Ladies," and other spectacles of deception. Bellion reconstructs the elite and vernacular sites where such art and objects appeared and argues that early national exhibitions doubled as spaces of citizen formation. Within a post-Revolutionary culture troubled by the social and political consequences of deception, keen perception signified able citizenship. Setting illusions into dialogue with Enlightenment cultures of science, print, politics, and the senses, Citizen Spectator demonstrates that pictorial and optical illusions functioned to cultivate but also to confound discernment. Bellion reveals the equivocal nature of illusion during the early republic, mapping its changing forms and functions, and uncovers surprising links between early American art, culture, and citizenship.