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The Meritocracy Quartet

Author : Jeffrey Lewis
Publisher : Haus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1907822887
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Meritocracy Quartet written by Jeffrey Lewis and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed writer Jeffrey Lewis is known for his deft portrayals of relatable figures from all walks of life. In The Meritocracy Quartet, his four interlinking novels—Meritocracy: A Love Story, The Conference of the Birds, Theme Song for an Old Show, and Adam the King—have been brought together for the first time into a single volume. Set against the backdrop of the changing American landscape over four decades, The Meritocracy Quartet is a testament to the country’s evolving personality. The quartet follows Louie, a Yale graduate from a modest background with a gift for forging connections in high and low places. Beginning in the 1960s, as he documents a going-away party for a fellow Yalie on his way to Vietnam, and continuing through his spiritual encounters with a 1970s group of city misfits, his turn to television writing in the 1980s, and a tragic love story between two of his close friends in the 1990s, Louie chronicles not only his own personal struggles—his silent love for his best friend’s girl, his delicate relationship with an at-times absent father—but also the attitudes, events, and people that marked his generation. From the Vietnam War to George W. Bush, from television trends to the divide between the haves and have-nots, The Meritocracy Quartet is a moving witness to everything America had to offer in the latter portion of the twentieth century.

Meritocracy

Author : Jeffrey Lewis
Publisher : Other Press
ISBN 13 : 9781590511985
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Meritocracy written by Jeffrey Lewis and published by Other Press. This book was released on 2005-09-17 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meritocracy is the story of a generation when it was young, caught at the moment when history arrived to exact a tragic and inevitable price. It is the end of the summer of 1966 and a small group of friends, recent Yale graduates, gather in a Maine summer cottage to say good-bye to one of their own. Harry Nolan is joining the Army and may be sent to Vietnam. Also present is Harry's beautiful young bride, Sascha. Harry and Sascha represent to their friends the apex of their generation. Sascha has men falling for her "up and down the eastern seaboard," and Harry, a rich and fearless Californian, son of a United States senator, has his friends convinced that he will one day be president. The story proceeds from the point-of-view of one of the friends, Louie, whose unspoken love for Sascha is like a worm that works its way through the narrative, cracking apart every innocent assumption. An aura of power, earned and unearned, assumed and desired, hangs over this Ivy League world. And it settles at last on Harry, who on this final weekend before his induction comes to understand a terrible paradox: if he's going into the Army simply to maintain his political viability, his action will dishonor his right to lead; but if he doesn't go, he will likely never have the chance. His wrestling with this paradox unleashes a spiral of events that becomes as fateful for all the characters as it is emblematic of the times they grew up in. In one sense, Meritocracy is a novel for the Al Gores and John Kerrys and George Bushes of today's America. But in a larger sense it is a book for all those of the postwar generation who have mourned the loss of their true "best and brightest," and who regret how the life of their nation, so brightly and hopefully imagined when they were young, and now entrusted to their care, has come to be diminished.

Establishment and Meritocracy

Author : Peter Hennessy
Publisher : Haus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1908323787
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Establishment and Meritocracy written by Peter Hennessy and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like so many of the postwar generation in Britain, Peter Hennessy climbed the ladders of opportunity set up by the 1944 Education Act designed to encourage a more meritocratic society. In this highly personal book, Hennessy examines the rise of meritocracy as a concept and the persistence of the shadowy notion of an establishment in Britain’s institutions of state. He asks whether these elusive concepts still have any power to explain British society, and why they continue to fascinate us. To what extent are the ideas of meritocracy and the establishment simply imagined? And if a meritocracy rose in the years following 1945, has it now stalled? With its penetrating examination of the British school system and postwar trends, Establishment and Meritocracy is an important resource for those concerned about the link between education and later success, both for individuals and their societies.

Meritocracy Quartet

Author : Jeffrey Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780907822776
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Meritocracy Quartet written by Jeffrey Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed writer Jeffrey Lewis is known for his deft portrayals of relatable figures from all walks of life. In The Meritocracy Quartet, his four interlinking novels--Meritocracy: A Love Story, The Conference of the Birds, Theme Song for an Old Show, and Adam the King--have been brought together for the first time into a single volume. Set against the backdrop of the changing American landscape over four decades, The Meritocracy Quartet is a testament to the country's evolving personality. --

Berlin Cantata

Author : Jeffrey Lewis
Publisher : Haus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1907822429
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Berlin Cantata written by Jeffrey Lewis and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A city that has lost one of its limbs and is receiving a miraculous gift, a little bump under the flesh, where the limb is just beginning to grow back. Thus does the American girl in Jeffrey Lewis's remarkable polyphonic novel describe Berlin and the "remnant Jews, secret GDR Jews...Soviet Jews...Jews who'd fled and come back with the victors, Jews who were lost mandarins now, Jews who'd believed in the universality of man and maybe still did" whom she finds at a Day of Atonement gathering in the eastern part of the city in a year soon after the Wall fell. Berlin Cantata deploys thirteen voices to tell a story not only of atonement, but of discovery, loss, identity, intrigue, mystery, insanity, sadomasochism and lies. At its centre is a country house owned successively by Jews, Nazis and Communists. In the country house, the American girl seeks her hidden past. In the girl, a local reporter seeks redemption. In the reporter, a false hero of the past seeks exposure. In the false hero, the American girl seeks a guide. And so it goes, a round of conspiracy and desire. Even as he describes his native city, the false hero describes the characters of Berlin Cantata: "We dined on wreckage. We were not afraid to beg. We continued our long tradition of believing either in nothing or too much."

Adam the King

Author : Jeffrey Lewis
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590512847
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Adam the King written by Jeffrey Lewis and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2008 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Taut, startling, and dramatic, Adam the King depicts the inexorability of fate against the backdrop of the money-mad 90s, the emptiness of raging ambition, and the fallout from a society's deepening division."--BOOK JACKET.

The Radical Progress Quartet

Author : John O'Loughlin
Publisher : Centretruths Digital Media
ISBN 13 : 1446699870
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (466 download)

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Download or read book The Radical Progress Quartet written by John O'Loughlin and published by Centretruths Digital Media. This book was released on 2022-06-04 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE RADICAL PROGRESS QUARTET, dating from 2003, is comprised of 'Radical Progress', 'Stairway to Judgement', 'A Perfect Resolution', and 'The Last Judgement', all four books of which continue the author's commitment to the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism in pursuit of metaphysical perfection or, at any rate, credibility.

The Free Testament Quartet

Author : John O'Loughlin
Publisher : Centretruths Digital Media
ISBN 13 : 1446699889
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (466 download)

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Download or read book The Free Testament Quartet written by John O'Loughlin and published by Centretruths Digital Media. This book was released on 2022-05-25 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four e-books in this quartet are 'The Free Testament (Of a Bound Genius)', 'Revelationary Afterthoughts', 'Revolutionary Afterthoughts', and 'Judgemental Afterthoughts (Of a Free Genius)', all of which take the author's ideological philosophy closer to completion in what is a kind of ultimate testament to Social Theocratic truth.

The Meritocracy Trap

Author : Daniel Markovits
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735222010
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The Meritocracy Trap written by Daniel Markovits and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the meritocratic ideal – that social and economic rewards should follow achievement rather than breeding – reigns supreme. Both Democrats and Republicans insistently repeat meritocratic notions. Meritocracy cuts to the heart of who we are. It sustains the American dream. But what if, both up and down the social ladder, meritocracy is a sham? Today, meritocracy has become exactly what it was conceived to resist: a mechanism for the concentration and dynastic transmission of wealth and privilege across generations. Upward mobility has become a fantasy, and the embattled middle classes are now more likely to sink into the working poor than to rise into the professional elite. At the same time, meritocracy now ensnares even those who manage to claw their way to the top, requiring rich adults to work with crushing intensity, exploiting their expensive educations in order to extract a return. All this is not the result of deviations or retreats from meritocracy but rather stems directly from meritocracy’s successes. This is the radical argument that Daniel Markovits prosecutes with rare force. Markovits is well placed to expose the sham of meritocracy. Having spent his life at elite universities, he knows from the inside the corrosive system we are trapped within. Markovits also knows that, if we understand that meritocratic inequality produces near-universal harm, we can cure it. When The Meritocracy Trap reveals the inner workings of the meritocratic machine, it also illuminates the first steps outward, towards a new world that might once again afford dignity and prosperity to the American people.

The Virtuous Circles Quartet

Author : John O'Loughlin
Publisher : Centretruths Digital Media
ISBN 13 : 1446699846
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (466 download)

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Download or read book The Virtuous Circles Quartet written by John O'Loughlin and published by Centretruths Digital Media. This book was released on 2013-02-08 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This quartet of aphoristic philosophy continues the author's quest for Social Transcendentalist perfection through texts as diverse as the aforementioned 'The Virtuous Circles', which opens the volume, 'The Struggle for Ultimate Freedom', 'Apotheosis of the Gnosis' and 'Eschatology or Scatology', the latter of which would suggest a choice between Heaven and, in effect, Hell, though Mr O'Loughlin has definite ideological alternatives in mind.

The Yang and Anti-Yin Quartet

Author : John O'Loughlin
Publisher : Centretruths Digital Media
ISBN 13 : 1446701808
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (467 download)

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Download or read book The Yang and Anti-Yin Quartet written by John O'Loughlin and published by Centretruths Digital Media. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This quartet of books of aphoristic philosophy with a Social Theocratic dimension is comprised of 'Yang and Anti-Yin', 'Lamb and Anti-Lion', 'Celestial City and Anti-Vanity Fair' and, last but by no means least, 'Jesus - A Summing Up!', the title of which is a kind of oblique tribute to Arthur Koestler's estimable 'Janus - A Summing Up', which, however, would not have much bearing on the aforementioned works in terms of thematic structure, as germane, by and large, to the noumenal distinction between metaphysics and antimetachemistry, as explained in the texts.

Leonard Cohen

Author : Jeffrey Lewis
Publisher : Haus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1913368939
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Leonard Cohen written by Jeffrey Lewis and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-06 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man who shares his name with a famous singer must grapple with his identity, purpose, and love. The Leonard Cohen at the center of Leonard Cohen: A Novel is an everyman, a would-be artist, a would-be lover, a would-be tragic figure, yet a man haunted by the greatness of his namesake. He struggles to compete. He struggles to be more than a punchline in his own mind. He struggles, in particular, to write one song as great as the least of the great Leonard Cohen's songs. At the center of Leonard's life is Daphne. In their meeting on a Greek island, a contemporary fable of Daphne and Apollo plays out. But even with Daphne, Leonard is shadowed by the other Leonard Cohen, whom he fears is the real Apollo. The ancient myth haunts the fated lovers, and the nobody Leonard Cohen’s life becomes at once a mystery, a miracle, and a myth on its own terms. Once upon a time, Apollo fell hard for Daphne, who turned herself into a laurel tree. No less a fate awaits the protagonists of this slender yet universal novel, where art, love, and fame all fatefully intertwine.

The Meritocracy Myth

Author : Stephen J. McNamee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742599779
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book The Meritocracy Myth written by Stephen J. McNamee and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2009-08-16 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Meritocracy Myth challenges the widely held American belief in meritocracyOCothat people get out of the system what they put into it based on individual merit. Fully revised and updated throughout, the second edition includes compelling new case studies, such as the impact of social and cultural capital in the cases of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and new material on current topics such as the impact of the financial and credit crisis, intergenerational mobility, and the impact of racism and sexism. The Meritocracy Myth examines talent, attitude, work ethic, and character as elements of merit and evaluates the effect of non-merit factors such as social status, race, heritage, and wealth on meritocracy. A compelling book on an often-overlooked topic, first edition was highly regarded and proved a useful examination of this classic American ideal.

Theme Song For An Old Show

Author : Jeffrey Lewis
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Theme Song For An Old Show written by Jeffrey Lewis and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply felt homage to classic television from the author of Meritocracy and The Conference of the Birds. One of the most beloved programs in the history of television, the cop show Northie, has fallen into a ratings slump. Will it be cannibalized by unscrupulous studio executives for one last burst of high scores? Or will it be allowed to conclude its run in dignity? These are the questions faced by the protagonist Louie, now a television producer, in this third volume of Jeffrey Lewis's "Meritocracy Quartet." Zacky Kurtz, the "King of Television," who is obsessed by the possibility of being the first producer to get "bare ass" on network television, drives the plot toward a conclusion that is as passionate an indictment of our mass culture's coarsening as American literature has recently produced. Yet Theme Song for an Old Show is about more than dirty business on television. It is an elegiac tribute to the medium, and to the kind of show of which Louie was a proud part, and to Louie’s father, a television producer of an earlier, more naïve era. PRAISE FOR JEFFREY LEWIS'S MERITOCRACY: A LOVE STORY: "A hauntingly beautiful love story...loaded with powerful characters...written by a writer with consummate skill." – The Portland Press-Herald "A sheen of nostalgia glazes this tribute to privileged college kids in the 1960s...a paean to lost youth and hopes." – Publishers Weekly "Jeffrey Lewis's wonderful novel Meritocracy [has] historical perspective and reach...A tragic story about what could have been and what wasn't." – The Jerusalem Post

The Rise of the Meritocracy

Author : Michael Young
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 141281572X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Meritocracy written by Michael Young and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Young has christened the oligarchy of the future “Meritocracy.” Indeed, the word is now part of the English language. It would appear that the formula: IQ+Effort=Merit may well constitute the basic belief of the ruling class in the twenty-first century. Projecting himself into the year 2034, the author of this sociological satire shows how present decisions and practices may remold our society. It is widespread knowledge that it is insufficient to be somebody's nephew to obtain a responsible post in business, government, teaching, or science. Experts in education and selection apply scientific principles to sift out the leaders of tomorrow. You need intelligence rating, qualification, experience, application, and a certain caliber to achieve status. In a word, one must show merit to advance in the new society of tomorrow. In a new opening essay, Young reflects on the reception of his work, and its production, in a candid and lively way. Many of the critical ambiguities surrounding its original publication are now clarified and resolved. What we have is what the Guardian of London called “A brilliant essay.” and what Time and Tide described as “a fountain gush of new ideas. Its wit and style make it compulsively enjoyable reading from cover to cover.”

Meritocracy and Economic Inequality

Author : Kenneth Arrow
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069119033X
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Meritocracy and Economic Inequality written by Kenneth Arrow and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Americans strongly favor equality of opportunity if not outcome, but many are weary of poverty's seeming immunity to public policy. This helps to explain the recent attention paid to cultural and genetic explanations of persistent poverty, including claims that economic inequality is a function of intellectual ability, as well as more subtle depictions of the United States as a meritocracy where barriers to achievement are personal--either voluntary or inherited--rather than systemic. This volume of original essays by luminaries in the economic, social, and biological sciences, however, confirms mounting evidence that the connection between intelligence and inequality is surprisingly weak and demonstrates that targeted educational and economic reforms can reduce the income gap and improve the country's aggregate productivity and economic well-being. It also offers a novel agenda of equal access to valuable associations. Amartya Sen, John Roemer, Robert M. Hauser, Glenn Loury, Orley Ashenfelter, and others sift and analyze the latest arguments and quantitative findings on equality in order to explain how merit is and should be defined, how economic rewards are distributed, and how patterns of economic success persist across generations. Moving well beyond exploration, they draw specific conclusions that are bold yet empirically grounded, finding that schooling improves occupational success in ways unrelated to cognitive ability, that IQ is not a strong independent predictor of economic success, and that people's associations--their neighborhoods, working groups, and other social ties--significantly explain many of the poverty traps we observe. The optimistic message of this beautifully edited book is that important violations of equality of opportunity do exist but can be attenuated by policies that will serve the general economy. Policy makers will read with interest concrete suggestions for crafting economically beneficial anti-discrimination measures, enhancing educational and associational opportunity, and centering economic reforms in community-based institutions. Here is an example of some of our most brilliant social thinkers using the most advanced techniques that their disciplines have to offer to tackle an issue of great social importance.

New York

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1228 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: