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  • Reluctant Modernism

    American Thought and Culture, 1880–1900

    by George Cotkin ...
    Series series American Thought and Culture
    In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Americans were faced with the challenges and uncertainties of a new era. The comfortable Victorian values of continuity, progress, and order clashed with the unsettling modern notions of constant change, relative truth, and chaos. Attempting to embrace the intellectual challenges of modernism, American thinkers of the day were yet reluctant to ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Dive Deeper:Journeys with Moby-Dick

    Journeys with Moby-Dick

    by George Cotkin ...
    Herman Melville's epic tale of obsession has all the ingredients of a first rate drama--fascinating characters in solitude and society, battles between good and evil, a thrilling chase to the death--and yet its allusions, digressions, and sheer scope can prove daunting to even the most intrepid reader. George Cotkin's Dive Deeper provides both a guide to the novel and a record of its dazzling ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Morality's Muddy Waters

    Ethical Quandaries in Modern America

    by George Cotkin ...
    In the face of an uncertain and dangerous world, Americans yearn for a firm moral compass, a clear set of ethical guidelines. But as history shows, by reducing complex situations to simple cases of right or wrong we often go astray.In Morality's Muddy Waters, historian George Cotkin offers a clarion call on behalf of moral complexity. Revisiting several defining moments in the twentieth century ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Feast of Excess

    A Cultural History of the New Sensibility

    by George Cotkin ...
    In 1952, John Cage shocked audiences with 4'33", his compositional ode to the ironic power of silence. From Cage's minimalism to Chris Burden's radical performance art two decades later (in one piece he had himself shot), the post-war American avant-garde shattered the divide between low and high art, between artist and audience. They changed the cultural landscape. Feast of Excess is an engaging ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Morality's Muddy Waters

    Ethical Quandaries in Modern America

    by George Cotkin ...
    In the face of an uncertain and dangerous world, Americans yearn for a firm moral compass, a clear set of ethical guidelines. But as history shows, by reducing complex situations to simple cases of right or wrong we often go astray.In Morality's Muddy Waters, historian George Cotkin offers a clarion call on behalf of moral complexity. Revisiting several defining moments in the twentieth century ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • American Betrayal

    The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character

    by Diana West ...
    Uncover the shocking truth about America's hidden history during World War II and the Cold War in Diana West's groundbreaking book, American Betrayal.In this real-life thriller and national tragedy, West digs deep to expose a body of lies that Americans have been led to regard as the near-sacred history of World War II and its Cold War aftermath. American Betrayal illuminates the massive, Moscow ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Chomsky Reader

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    The Chomsky Reader brings together for the first time the political thought of American's leading dissident intellectual—“arguably the most important intellectual alive” (The New York Times).At the center of practically every major debate over America's role in the world, one finds Noam Chomsky's ideas—sometimes attacked, sometimes studiously ignored, but always a powerful presence.Drawing from ... Read more

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  • Representations of the Intellectual

    The 1993 Reith Lectures

    by Edward W. Said ...
    **In these impassioned and inspiring essays, based on his 1993 Reith Lectures, Edward Said explores what it means to be an intellectual."Said is a brilliant and unique amalgam of scholar, aesthete and political activist. . . . He challenges and stimulates our thinking in every area." --Washington Post Book World**Are intellectuals merely the servants of special interests or do they have a larger ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Intellectual Morons

    How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas

    by Daniel J. Flynn ...
    Why do well-educated antiwar activists call the president of the United States “the new Hitler” and argue that the U.S. government orchestrated the September 11 attacks?Why does Al Gore believe that cars pose “a mortal threat to the security of every nation”?Why does the Princeton professor known as the father of the animal rights movement object to humans eating animals but not to humans having ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Cultures of War

    Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq

    by John W. Dower ...
    Finalist for the 2010 National Book Award in Nonfiction: The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian returns with a groundbreaking comparative study of the dynamics and pathologies of war in modern times.Over recent decades, John W. Dower, one of America’s preeminent historians, has addressed the roots and consequences of war from multiple perspectives. In War Without Mercy (1986), winner of the National ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • The Black Book of the American Left

    The Collected Conservative Writings of David Horowitz

    by David Horowitz ...
    David Horowitz spent the first part of his life in the world of the Communist-progressive left, a politics he inherited from his mother and father, and later in the New Left as one of its founders. When the wreckage he and his comrades had created became clear to him in the mid-1970s, he left. Three decades of second thoughts then made him this movement’s principal intellectual antagonist. For ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Bringing the War Home

    The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies

    by Jeremy Peter Varon ...
    In this first comprehensive comparison of left-wing violence in the United States and West Germany, Jeremy Varon focuses on America's Weather Underground and Germany's Red Army Faction to consider how and why young, middle-class radicals in prosperous democratic societies turned to armed struggle in efforts to overthrow their states. Based on a wealth of primary material, ranging from interviews ... Read more

    $31.49 USD