Our Towns

2018-05-08 Travel

Author : James Fallows
Release : 2018-05-08
Genre : Travel
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Download or read book Our Towns written by James Fallows. This book was released on 2018-05-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BEST SELLER • The basis for the HBO documentary now streaming on HBO Max For five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, the America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems—from economic dislocation to the opioid scourge—but it is also crafting solutions, with a practical-minded determination at dramatic odds with the bitter paralysis of national politics. At times of dysfunction on a national level, reform possibilities have often arisen from the local level. The Fallowses describe America in the middle of one of these creative waves. Their view of the country is as complex and contradictory as America itself, but it also reflects the energy, the generosity and compassion, the dreams, and the determination of many who are in the midst of making things better. Our Towns is the story of their journey—and an account of a country busy remaking itself.

Twilight of Democracy

2020-07-21 Political Science

Author : Anne Applebaum
Release : 2020-07-21
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book Twilight of Democracy written by Anne Applebaum. This book was released on 2020-07-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "How did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document ... is Applebaum's answer." —Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian explains, with electrifying clarity, why elites in democracies around the world are turning toward nationalism and authoritarianism. From the United States and Britain to continental Europe and beyond, liberal democracy is under siege, while authoritarianism is on the rise. In Twilight of Democracy, Anne Applebaum, an award-winning historian of Soviet atrocities who was one of the first American journalists to raise an alarm about antidemocratic trends in the West, explains the lure of nationalism and autocracy. In this captivating essay, she contends that political systems with radically simple beliefs are inherently appealing, especially when they benefit the loyal to the exclusion of everyone else. Elegantly written and urgently argued, Twilight of Democracy is a brilliant dissection of a world-shaking shift and a stirring glimpse of the road back to democratic values.

A Literary Clinic

1917 Books and reading

Author : Samuel McChord Crothers
Release : 1917
Genre : Books and reading
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Download or read book A Literary Clinic written by Samuel McChord Crothers. This book was released on 1917. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Faraway Women and the Atlantic Monthly

2019 Literary Criticism

Author : Cathryn Halverson
Release : 2019
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 540/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Faraway Women and the Atlantic Monthly written by Cathryn Halverson. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first decades of the twentieth century, famed Atlantic Monthly editor Ellery Sedgwick chose to publish a group of nontraditional writers he later referred to as Faraway Women, working-class authors living in the western United States far from his base in Boston. Cathryn Halverson surveys these enormously popular Atlantic contributors, among them a young woman raised in Oregon lumber camps, homesteaders in Wyoming, Idaho, and Alberta, and a world traveler who called Los Angeles and Honolulu home. Faraway Women and the Atlantic Monthly examines gender and power as it charts an archival journey connecting the least remembered writers and readers of the time with one of its most renowned literary figures, Gertrude Stein. It shows how distant friends, patrons, publishers, and readers inspired, fostered, and consumed the innovative life narratives of these unlikely authors, and it also tracks their own strategies for seizing creative outlets and forging new protocols of public expression. Troubling binary categories of east and west, national and regional, and cosmopolitan and local, the book recasts the coordinates of early twentieth-century American literature.

Republic of Words

2011 Literary Criticism

Author : Susan Goodman
Release : 2011
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 960/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Republic of Words written by Susan Goodman. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Atlantic Monthly became the conscience of the American public and the biggest platform of the nation's flourishing literature

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