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  • Irving Babbitt, Literature and the Democratic Culture

    Edited by Milton Hindus ...
    Series series Library of Conservative Thought
    This is a sustained inquiry into the thought of the influential scholar and critic Irving Babbitt (1865-1933), intellectual leader of the movement known as the New Humanism. Milton Hindus considers the subjects that most interested Babbitt: ethics, literature, education, and social and political conservatism in the United States. In their most general sense, his concerns were man and his nature as ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Celine the Crippled Giant

    by Milton Hindus ...
    Louis Ferdinand Céline (the pseudonym of Louis Destouches) was a famous novelist and ferocious anti-Semitic pamphleteer who rose to fame before Hitler, but perfectly represented the fascist mind-set that swept across Europe between 1932 and 1944. Never a Nazi himself, he was author of Journey to the End of the Night, Death on the Installment Plan, Guignol's Band, Homage to Zola, and a series of ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Ghosts on the Roof

    Selected Journalism

    by Whittaker Chambers, Terry Teachout, Milton Hindus ...
    Whittaker Chambers is one of the most controversial figures in modern American history a former Communist spy who left the party, testified against Alger Hiss before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and wrote a classic autobiography, Witness. Dismissed by some as a crank, reviled by others as a traitor, Chambers still looms as a Dostoevskian figure over three decades after his death in ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Walt Whitman

    Edited by Milton Hindus ...
    This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes.This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995. ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Causality and Modern Science

    by Milton Hindus ...
    The causal problem has become topical once again. While we are no longer causalists or believers in the universal truth of the causal principle we continue to think of causes and effects, as well as of causal and noncausal relations among them. Instead of becoming indeterminists we have enlarged determinism to include noncausal categories. And we are still in the process of characterizing our ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

    by Richard Hofstadter ...
    Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in NonfictionAnti-Intellectualism in American Life is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society."As Mr. Hofstadter unfolds the fascinating story, it is no ... Read more

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  • Letters to a Young Contrarian

    by Christopher Hitchens ...
    From bestselling author and provocateur Christopher Hitchens, the classic guide to the art of principled dissent and disagreement.**“Hitchens is, first and last, a writer, an always exciting, often exacting, furious polemicist.” -**The Boston GlobeIn Letters to a Young Contrarian, Christopher Hitchens inspires the radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, and angry young people of tomorrow. Exploring ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass

    by Walt Whitman ...
    As featured in AMC's Breaking Bad*, given by Gale Boetticher to Walter White and discovered by Hank Schrader*. "I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease....observing a spear of summer grass." So begins Leaves of Grass, the first great American poem and indeed, to this day, ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Inventing Human Rights: A History

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    by Lynn Hunt ...
    “A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book ReviewHow were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture as a means for finding the truth. She demonstrates ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Long Loneliness

    The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist

    by Dorothy Day ...
    The compelling autobiography of Dorothy Day, a remarkable Catholic woman and social activist sainted by many, who championed the rights of the poor in America’s inner cities.When Dorothy Day died in 1980, the New York Times eulogized her as “a nonviolent social radical of luminous personality . . . founder of the Catholic Worker Movement and leader for more than fifty years in numerous battles of ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

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  • The Glorious American Essay

    One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present

    by Phillip Lopate ...
    **"Not only an education but a joy. This is a book for the ages." --Rivka GalchenA monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith.**The essay form is an especially democratic one, and many of the essays Phillip Lopate has gathered here address themselves--sometimes critically--to American ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • On Revolution

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    A unique and fascinating look at violent political change by one of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century and the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of TotalitarianismHannah Arendt’s penetrating observations on the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of our political landscape. On Revolution is her classic ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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