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America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-Blind Politics

Education, Incarceration, Segregation, and the Future of the U.S. Multiracial Democracy

by Grace Lee Boggs, Benjamin DeMott, Erica Frankenberg, Andrew Grant-Thomas, Lani Guinier, Maria Hinojosa, Gary Howard, Colbert I. King, Marc Mauer, Trinh Minh-Ha, Michael Omi, John Telford, Lisa Thurau, Johanna Wald, James J. Zogby, Nell Irvin Painter, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Houston Baker, Bob Herbert, Arthur Levine, Manning Marable, Alvin F. Poussaint, Cornel West, john a. powell ...

Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were disproportionately felt by underclass populations. In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence of this crisis today, despite public beliefs that America has become a "post-racial" nation after ... Read more

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Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were disproportionately felt by underclass populations. In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence of this crisis today, despite public beliefs that America has become a "post-racial" nation after
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You Don't Say

Modern American Inhibitions

by Benjamin DeMott ...

Series series Classics in Communication and Mass Culture Series
In this era of political correctness, it is often impossible to say things as one would like. Indeed, certain ways of feeling and talking that were once acceptable are now, in effect, forbidden. Of course, taboos extend further than speech. Social and sexual inhibitions are also evident. Benjamin DeMott argues that the very least a society should do is to try to understand the meaning of its own ... Read more

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In this era of political correctness, it is often impossible to say things as one would like. Indeed, certain ways of feeling and talking that were once acceptable are now, in effect, forbidden. Of course, taboos extend further than speech. Social and sexual inhibitions are also evident. Benjamin DeMott argues that the very least a society should do is to try to understand the meaning of its own
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Supergrow

Essays and Reports on Imagination in America

Edited by Benjamin DeMott ...

Supergrow is a collection of fifteen essays that appeared between 1966 and 1969 in publications such as the American Scholar, the New York Times, Antioch Review, Esquire, and the Saturday Review. Author Benjamin DeMott discusses everything under the sun--music, improving one's sex life, violence in Mississippi, theater, student revolts--but a single theme unifies the material: people ought to use ... Read more

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Supergrow is a collection of fifteen essays that appeared between 1966 and 1969 in publications such as the American Scholar, the New York Times, Antioch Review, Esquire, and the Saturday Review. Author Benjamin DeMott discusses everything under the sun--music, improving one's sex life, violence in Mississippi, theater, student revolts--but a single theme unifies the material: people ought to use
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Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence, Dennis Jackson ...

D. H. Lawrence’s great autobiographical novel paints a provocative portrait of an artist torn between affection for his mother and desire for two beautiful women. Set in the Nottinghamshire coalfields of Lawrence’s own boyhood, the story follows young Paul Morel’s growth into manhood in a British working-class family.Gertrude Morel, Paul’s puritanical mother, concentrates all her love and ... Read more

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D. H. Lawrence’s great autobiographical novel paints a provocative portrait of an artist torn between affection for his mother and desire for two beautiful women. Set in the Nottinghamshire coalfields of Lawrence’s own boyhood, the story follows young Paul Morel’s growth into manhood in a British working-class family.Gertrude Morel, Paul’s puritanical mother, concentrates all her love and
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Of Human Bondage

by W. Somerset Maugham, Maeve Binchy ...

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time"It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham," wrote Gore Vidal. "He was always so entirely there."Originally published in 1915, Of Human Bondage is a potent expression of the power of sexual obsession and of modern man's yearning for freedom. ... Read more

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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time"It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham," wrote Gore Vidal. "He was always so entirely there."Originally published in 1915, Of Human Bondage is a potent expression of the power of sexual obsession and of modern man's yearning for freedom.
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Howards End

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by E. M. Forster, Regina Marler ...

First published in 1910, Howards End is the novel that earned E. M. Forster recognition as a major writer. Soon to be a limited series on Starz.At its heart lie two families—the wealthy and business-minded Wilcoxes and the cultured and idealistic Schlegels. When the beautiful and independent Helen Schlegel begins an impetuous affair with the ardent Paul Wilcox, a series of events is sparked—some ... Read more

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First published in 1910, Howards End is the novel that earned E. M. Forster recognition as a major writer. Soon to be a limited series on Starz.At its heart lie two families—the wealthy and business-minded Wilcoxes and the cultured and idealistic Schlegels. When the beautiful and independent Helen Schlegel begins an impetuous affair with the ardent Paul Wilcox, a series of events is sparked—some
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First published in 1910, Howards End is the novel that earned E. M. Forster recognition as a major writer. Soon to be a limited series on Starz.At its heart lie two families—the wealthy and business-minded Wilcoxes and the cultured and idealistic Schlegels. When the beautiful and independent Helen Schlegel begins an impetuous affair with the ardent Paul Wilcox, a series of events is sparked—some ... Read more

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First published in 1910, Howards End is the novel that earned E. M. Forster recognition as a major writer. Soon to be a limited series on Starz.At its heart lie two families—the wealthy and business-minded Wilcoxes and the cultured and idealistic Schlegels. When the beautiful and independent Helen Schlegel begins an impetuous affair with the ardent Paul Wilcox, a series of events is sparked—some
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Kangaroo

by David Herbert Lawrence ...

Kangaroo is an account of a visit to New South Wales by an English writer named Richard Lovat Somers, and his German wife Harriet, in the early 1920s. This appears to be semi-autobiographical, based on a three-month visit to Australia by Lawrence and his wife Frieda, in 1922.The novel includes a chapter ("Nightmare") describing the Somers' experiences in wartime Cornwall (St Columb Major), vivid ... Read more

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Kangaroo is an account of a visit to New South Wales by an English writer named Richard Lovat Somers, and his German wife Harriet, in the early 1920s. This appears to be semi-autobiographical, based on a three-month visit to Australia by Lawrence and his wife Frieda, in 1922.The novel includes a chapter ("Nightmare") describing the Somers' experiences in wartime Cornwall (St Columb Major), vivid
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The Moon and Sixpence

by William Somerset Maugham ...

"The Moon and Sixpence" by W. Somerset Maugham is a riveting exploration of artistic passion and unconventional life. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, the novel follows Charles Strickland, who abandons convention to pursue art. Maugham delves into the clash between societal norms and individual freedom, portraying Strickland's tumultuous journey through Europe and Tahiti. With vivid prose and ... Read more

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"The Moon and Sixpence" by W. Somerset Maugham is a riveting exploration of artistic passion and unconventional life. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, the novel follows Charles Strickland, who abandons convention to pursue art. Maugham delves into the clash between societal norms and individual freedom, portraying Strickland's tumultuous journey through Europe and Tahiti. With vivid prose and
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A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster ...

Series series Vintage Classics
A beautiful Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, with an introduction by P. N. Furbank.Britain’s three-hundred-year relationship with the Indian subcontinent produced much fiction of interest but only one indisputable masterpiece of English literature: E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India, published in 1924, at the height ... Read more

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A beautiful Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, with an introduction by P. N. Furbank.Britain’s three-hundred-year relationship with the Indian subcontinent produced much fiction of interest but only one indisputable masterpiece of English literature: E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India, published in 1924, at the height
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The Rainbow (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #77]

by D. H. Lawrence, Centaur Classics ...

"The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation." —E. M. Forster"[Lawrence] was a language, a setting, a world entirely of his own… He was, like all true poetry, against tepid living and tepid loves… [giving] full expression to the gestures of passion." —Anaïs Nin"Lawrence is the most Dostoevskian of English novelists, in whose best work conflicting ideological positions are brought into play ... Read more

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"The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation." —E. M. Forster"[Lawrence] was a language, a setting, a world entirely of his own… He was, like all true poetry, against tepid living and tepid loves… [giving] full expression to the gestures of passion." —Anaïs Nin"Lawrence is the most Dostoevskian of English novelists, in whose best work conflicting ideological positions are brought into play
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The Man Who Knew Too Much

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton ...

Everyone who was not born a duke and who has not achieved a premiership will congratulate himself after reading these detective stories of crimes among the upper classes. The criminal hunter in the case never brings the criminals to justice though he captures every one. Yet his work is invaluable. His chief case is concerned with the murder of a powerful nobleman, and its solution involves a ... Read more

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Everyone who was not born a duke and who has not achieved a premiership will congratulate himself after reading these detective stories of crimes among the upper classes. The criminal hunter in the case never brings the criminals to justice though he captures every one. Yet his work is invaluable. His chief case is concerned with the murder of a powerful nobleman, and its solution involves a
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