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Author | : Norah Vincent |
Publisher | : Viking Adult |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2006-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780670034666 |
A Los Angeles Times columnist recounts her eighteen-month undercover stint as a man, a time during which she underwent considerable personal risks as she worked a sales job, joined a bowling league, frequented sex clubs, dated, and encountered firsthand the rigid codes and rituals of masculinity. 80,000 first printing.
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Author | : Tim O'Brien |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2006-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547527047 |
A politician’s past war crimes are revealed in this psychologically haunting novel by the National Book Award–winning author of The Things They Carried. Vietnam veteran John Wade is running for senate when long-hidden secrets about his involvement in wartime atrocities come to light. But the loss of his political fortunes is only the beginning of John’s downfall. A retreat with his wife, Kathy, to a lakeside cabin in northern Minnesota only exacerbates the tensions rising between them. Then, within days of their arrival, Kathy mysteriously vanishes into the watery wilderness. When a police search fails to locate her, suspicion falls on the disgraced politician with a violent past. But when John himself disappears, the questions mount—with no answers in sight. In this contemplative thriller, acclaimed author Tim O’Brien examines America’s legacy of violence and warfare and its lasting impact both at home and abroad.
Author | : David Kuchta |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2002-05-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520921399 |
In 1666, King Charles II felt it necessary to reform Englishmen's dress by introducing a fashion that developed into the three-piece suit. We learn what inspired this royal revolution in masculine attire--and the reasons for its remarkable longevity--in David Kuchta's engaging and handsomely illustrated account. Between 1550 and 1850, Kuchta says, English upper- and middle-class men understood their authority to be based in part upon the display of masculine character: how they presented themselves in public and demonstrated their masculinity helped define their political legitimacy, moral authority, and economic utility. Much has been written about the ways political culture, religion, and economic theory helped shape ideals and practices of masculinity. Kuchta allows us to see the process working in reverse, in that masculine manners and habits of consumption in a patriarchal society contributed actively to people's understanding of what held England together. Kuchta shows not only how the ideology of modern English masculinity was a self-consciously political and public creation but also how such explicitly political decisions and values became internalized, personalized, and naturalized into everyday manners and habits.
Author | : Brian Miller |
Publisher | : Berrett-Koehler Publishers |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2012-03-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1609945085 |
“Powerful, compelling, and well researched . . . demolishes what may be the most destructive myth in America.” —David Korten, author of Agenda for a New Economy The Self-Made Myth exposes the false claim that business success is the result of heroic individual effort with little or no outside help. Brian Miller and Mike Lapham not only bust the myth; they present profiles of business leaders who recognize the public investments and supports that made their success possible—including Warren Buffett, Ben Cohen of Ben and Jerry’s, New Belgium Brewing CEO Kim Jordan, and others. The book also thoroughly demolishes the claims of supposedly self-made individuals such as Donald Trump and Ross Perot. How we view the creation of wealth and individual success is critical because it shapes our choices on taxes, regulation, public investments in schools and infrastructure, CEO pay, and more. It takes a village to raise a business—and it’s time to recognize that fact.
Author | : Irvin G. Wyllie |
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Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : National characteristics, American |
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Author | : Garry Wills |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2017-06-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1504045408 |
With a new preface: A “stunning” analysis of the troubled Republican president by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg (The New York Times Book Review). In this acclaimed biography that earned him a spot on Nixon’s infamous “enemies list,” Garry Wills takes a thoughtful, in-depth, and often “very amusing” look at the thirty-seventh US president, and draws some surprising conclusions about a man whose name has become synonymous with scandal and the abuse of power (Kirkus Reviews). Arguing that Nixon was a reflection of the country that elected him, Wills examines not only the psychology of the man himself and his relationships with others—from his wife, Pat, to his vice-president, Spiro Agnew—but also the state of the nation at the time, mired in the Vietnam War and experiencing a cultural rift that pitted the young against the old. Putting his findings into moral, economic, intellectual, and political contexts, he ultimately “paints a broad and provocative landscape of the nation’s—and Nixon’s—travails” (The New York Times). Simultaneously compassionate and critical, and raising interesting perspectives on the shifting definitions of terms like “conservative” and “liberal” over recent decades, Nixon Agonistes is a brilliant and indispensable book from one of America’s most acclaimed historians.
Author | : Timothy Sandefur |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2018-03-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781944424855 |
Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass rose to become one of the nation's foremost intellectuals--a statesman, author, lecturer, and scholar who helped lead the fight against slavery and racial oppression. Unlike other leading abolitionists, however, Douglass embraced the U.S. Constitution, insisting that it was an essentially anti-slavery document and that its guarantees for individual rights belonged to all Americans, of whatever race. As the nation pauses to remember Douglass on his bicentennial, Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man gives us an insightful glimpse into the mind of one of America's greatest thinkers.
Author | : Norah Vincent |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780670019717 |
A follow-up to Self-Made Man traces the author's commitment to a mental institution, where she embraced health and made observations about the effect of institutionalization and medication on the depressed and insane. 100,000 first printing.
Author | : Timothy Howe |
Publisher | : Oxbow Books Limited |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Pharaohs |
ISBN | : 9781789250428 |
This book examines the ways in which Alexander the Great's most successful Successor, Ptolemy I Soter, created his own literary, dynastic, artistic, and political legacy.