Results for "Stewart, Matthew"

How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders’ oligarchy in the Civil War. This is a story about a dangerous idea—one which ignited revolutions in America, France, and Haiti; burst across Europe in the r... Read More about An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America

A “brilliant” (The Washington Post), “clear-eyed and incisive” (The New Republic) analysis of how the wealthiest group in American society is making life miserable for everyone—including themselves.In 21st-century America, the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution have walked away with the big prizes ... Read More about The 9.9 Percent: The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture

How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders’ oligarchy in the Civil War. This is a story about a dangerous idea—one which ignited revolutions in America, France, and Haiti; burst across Europe in the r... Read More about An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America

A “brilliant” (The Washington Post), “clear-eyed and incisive” (The New Republic) analysis of how the wealthiest group in American society is making life miserable for everyone—including themselves.In 21st-century America, the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution have walked away with the big prizes ... Read More about The 9.9 Percent: The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture

A handbook to Hemingway's famous collection of short stories that emphasizes its status as a modernist masterwork. The volume of collected short stories and vignettes In Our Time was Ernest Hemingway's first commercial publication. Its appearance in 1925 launched the full-fledged literary career of... Read More about Modernism and Tradition in Ernest Hemingway's in Our Time: A Guide for Students and Readers (Studies in American Literature and Culture)