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13 produkter
Alger Hiss and the Battle for History
Av Susan Jacoby, Mark Crispin Miller
Häftad, 2010
506 kr
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A tough, evenhanded investigation of changing public perceptions of the Alger Hiss case and why it has served as a litmus test of American political loyalties for sixty yearsBooks on Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss abound, as countless scholars have labored to uncover the facts behind Chambers’s …
Great Agnostic
Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
Av Susan Jacoby
E-bok, 2013
197 kr
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"Jacoby writes with wit and vigor, affectionately resurrecting a man whose life and work are due for reconsideration" (The Boston Globe). During the Gilded Age, which saw the dawn of America''s enduring culture wars, Robert Green Ingersoll was known as "the Great Agnostic." The nation''s most …
Age of American Unreason
Av Susan Jacoby
E-bok, 2008
142 kr
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A cultural history of the last forty years, The Age of American Unreason focuses on the convergence of social forces—usually treated as separate entities—that has created a perfect storm of anti-rationalism. These include the upsurge of religious fundamentalism, with more political power today than …
Never Say Die
The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age
Av Susan Jacoby
E-bok, 2011
110 kr
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Susan Jacoby, an unsparing chronicler of unreason in American culture, now offers an impassioned, tough-minded critique of the myth that a radically new old age—unmarred by physical or mental deterioration, financial problems, or intimate loneliness—awaits the huge baby boom generation. Combining …
Never Say Die: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age
Av Susan Jacoby
Häftad, 2012
267 kr
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Last Men on Top
Av Susan Jacoby
E-bok, 2013
47 kr
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A feminist—and the bestselling author of The Age of American Unreason— looks back at the last pre-feminist generation of men who supposedly had it all and asks: what exactly did they have? How fabulous was life for men in the 1950s and early 1960s? How real is the world depicted by a television …
Way We Live Now
from The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies
Av Susan Jacoby
E-bok, 2018
16 kr
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In this selection from her searing cultural history of the last half century, Susan Jacoby chronicles the menacing surge of anti-rationalism in contemporary American life and the degradation of public speech in presidential rhetoric, radio broadcast, television, and internet media where homogenized …
Strange Gods
A Secular History of Conversion
Av Susan Jacoby
E-bok, 2016
173 kr
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In a groundbreaking historical work that addresses religious conversion in the West from an uncompromisingly secular perspective, Susan Jacoby challenges the conventional narrative of conversion as a purely spiritual journey. From the transformation on the road to Damascus of the Jew Saul into the …
Half-Jew
Av Susan Jacoby
E-bok, 2016
236 kr
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Since childhood, Susan Jacoby, the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of American Unreason, was sure that her father was keeping a secret. At age twenty, just before beginning her writing career as a reporter for the Washington Post , she learned the truth: Robert Jacoby, a Catholic …
Great Agnostic
Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
Av Susan Jacoby
Häftad, 2014
154 kr
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A biography that restores /robert Ingersoll—America’s foremost nineteenth-century champion of reason and secularism—to our still-contested twenty-first-century public square"Jacoby makes the case that Americans are dearly indebted to Ingersoll, and would be well-served to revisit his life and …
Why Baseball Matters
Av Susan Jacoby
Häftad, 2019
181 kr
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A best-selling author and passionate baseball fan takes a tough-minded look at America’s most traditional game in our twenty-first-century culture of digital distractionBaseball, first dubbed the “national pastime” in print in 1856, is the country’s most tradition-bound sport. Despite remaining …
