Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968-1989

Over Here is a selection of witty and well written essays on American subjects from the late 1960s to the end of the 1980s. An informal chronicle of American letters and life, its topics range from serious fiction (by Joan Didion, John Updike, Robert Coover, Mary McCarthy, and others) and cultural criticism (by Diana Trilling, Marshall McLuhan, Robert Brustein, and Neil Postman) to "popular" phenomena like espionage and crime novels, television, sports, journalism, horror fiction, the Charles Manson case, and the writings of Tom Wolfe. Beginning with close, skeptical readings of the terms in which life in contemporary America has been represented and explained, the book offers longer views of the difficult issues of America's recent past--Vietnam, sexual and social revolution, the drug scene, the career of Richard Nixon, political terrorism and the Cold War, the oil crises, Reaganism and the Roaring Eighties on Wall Street, the whole sad comedy of an American imperium that keeps betraying the democratic intentions it purports to serve. Yet in "criticizing America," Over Here asserts the value as well as the difficulty of being where and what we are.

Literature & Fiction

Edwards, Thomas

History & Criticism

Rutgers University Press

Gangraena

A facsimile of 17th century polemical work, with a modern introduction.

Religion & Spirituality

The Rota

The First and Second Part of Gangraena, or, A Catalogue and Discovery of Many of the Errors, Heresies, Blasphemies and Pernicious Practices of the ... Last Years: Also a Particular Narration O

Byrche, John

Literary

Legare Street Press

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Waters In The Wilderness: Or Original Hymns Of Prayer And Praise (1876)

Kessinger Publishing

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

Henry Derozio, the Eurasian, Poet, Teacher, and Journalist

History

BiblioLife

The Chester Cambrian Societies, 1760-1906 (1906)

Biographies & Memoirs

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T116896 With a half-title. Cantabrigiæ : Typis Academicis excudebat J. Archdeacon: prostant apud J. Woodyer, Cantab. et J. Beecroft, T. Payne, et M. Hingeston, Londin., 1768. [4],114p. ; 8°

Duæ dissertationes: in quarum priore probatur, variantes lectiones et menda, quæ in Sacram Scripturam irrepserunt, non labefactare ejus auctoritatem ... ... A Thoma Edwards, ... (Latin Edition)

World

Gale ECCO, Print Editions

Prolegomena in libros Veteris Testamenti poeticos; sive dissertatio, in qua, ... Francisci Harii, ... de antiqua Hebræorum poesis hypothesin ... ... Lowthianæ confutatio, ... (Latin Edition)

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