SAT ACT Mastery

SAT ACT Mastery
Craig Gehring (Auteur)

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The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution

The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution
Keith Devlin (Auteur)

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Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America

Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
Paul Tough (Auteur)

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The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal

The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal
Barry Werth (Auteur)

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Description du produit

In this provocative and unsettling look at the consequences of America's puritanical "need to punish," Barry Werth explores the tragic story of one of America's great literary minds whose life and career were shattered by the "Pink Scare."

Newton Arvin (1900-1963) was one of America's most esteemed literary critics, admired by Edmund Wilson and Lillian Hellman, and mentor to Truman Capote. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and in 1951, won the National Book Award for his biography of Herman Melville. As a scholar and writer, Arvin focused on the secret, psychological drives of such American masters as Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and identified the witch-hunt mentality that lies deep in the American psyche.

Born and raised in the constrained society of Protestant Indiana, Arvin was a social radical and an unproclaimed homosexual. He came through the Red Scare relatively unscathed, but when the national antismut campaign followed, his apartment in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he was a distinguished professor at Smith College, was searched and relatively mild homoerotic materials were confiscated. He was arrested for possession of pornography, accused in the press of being a leader of a "smut ring," and forced to choose between friendship and survival. After naming several men, he despaired at his own guilt and confusion, and banished himself to the state mental institution overlooking the Smith campus. From there public shame and the fear of his associates began to unravel his connections with the esteemed institutions that had been the cornerstones of his life.

In The Scarlet Professor, Barry Werth probes into the virulence with which even the most marginal "sins" are pursued in the fever of America's recurring puritanical crusades. His insights into the tangle of political and moralistic fanaticism underlying America's social landscape provide a forthright and compelling perspective on the dangers of a society where the possibility of a "private life" no longer exists.

But The Scarlet Professor is not just a political parable. It also a story of redemption.

My Year in Oman: An American Experience in Arabia During the War On Terror

My Year in Oman: An American Experience in Arabia During the War On Terror
Matthew Heines (Auteur)

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The Other Side of the Dale

The Other Side of the Dale
Gervase Phinn (Auteur)
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Nothing's Changed But My Change

Nothing's Changed But My Change
Jeremy Schoemaker (Auteur), Kate Sprouse (Auteur), Brienna Pinnow (Sous la direction de), Mike Sprouse (Preface)

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