In this stunning work chronicling the author's exploration ofhis own past--and the lives of many hundreds of thousands ofnameless immigrants who struggled alongside his ownancestors--Peter Quinn paints a brilliant new portrait of theIrish-American men and women whose evolving culture and valuescontinue to play such a central role in all of our identities asAmericans. In Quinn's hands, the Irish sterotype of "Paddy" givesway to an image of "Jimmy"--an archetypal Irish-American (acomposite of Jimmy Cagney and Jimmy Walker) who comes to life as afast-talking, tough-yet-refined urban American redefining Americanpolitics, street culture, religion, and imagination. From theirimmigration into America to the politics of the modern day, Quinn'svibrant prose weaves together the story of a people that has madean immeasurable contribution to American history and culture.
The legendary 1951 scroll draft of "On the Road," published asKerouac originally composed it IN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951,Jack Kerouac wrote his first full draft of "On the Road"atyped as asingle-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper,which he later taped together to form a 120-foot scroll. A majorliterary event when it was published in Viking hardcover in 2007,this is the uncut version of an American classicarougher, wilder,and more provocative than the official work that appeared, heavilyedited, in 1957. This version, capturing a moment in creativehistory, represents the first full expression of Kerouacasrevolutionary aesthetic.
In this incisive analysis of generals, John Keegan examinesthe meaning of heroism as represented by Alexander the Great,Wellington, Grant, and Hitler, and argues that generalship, likewarfare itself, is a cultural activity that has, through the years,required a change in the very nature of leadership. 16 pages ofphotos.
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Originally published in 1897, this is Durkheim's pioneering attempt to offer a sociological explanation for a phenomenon regarded until then as exclusively psychological and individualistic.
