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Orwells Ghosts Wisdom And Warnings For The Twenty First Century
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Book Synopsis Orwell's Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century by : Laura Beers
Download or read book Orwell's Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century written by Laura Beers and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the 75th anniversary of 1984, Laura Beers explores George Orwell’s still-radical ideas and why they are critical today. George Orwell dedicated his career to exposing social injustice and political duplicity, urging his readers to face hard truths about Western society and politics. Now, the uncanny parallels between the interwar era and our own—rising inequality, censorship, and challenges to traditional social hierarchies—make his writing even more of the moment. Invocations of Orwell and his classic dystopian novel 1984 have reached new heights, with both sides of the political spectrum embracing the rhetoric of Orwellianism. In Orwell’s Ghosts, historian Laura Beers considers Orwell’s full body of work—his six novels, three nonfiction works, and brilliant essays on politics, language, and the class system—to examine what “Orwellian” truly means and reveal the misconstrued thinker in all his complexity. She explores how Orwell’s writing on free speech addresses the proliferation of “fake news” and the emergence of cancel culture, highlights his vivid critiques of capitalism and the oppressive nature of the British Empire, and, in contrast, analyzes his failure to understand feminism. Timely, wide-ranging, and thought-provoking, Orwell’s Ghosts investigates how the writings of a lionized champion of truth and freedom can help us face the crises of modernity.
Download or read book Orwell's Ghosts written by Laura Beers and published by Hurst Publishers. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventy-five years after the publication of his classic dystopian novel 1984, George Orwell is experiencing a renaissance. Conservatives accuse governments and mainstream media of ‘Orwellian’ censorship, while progressives denounce the narrative manipulations of ‘Orwellian’ leaders including Trump, Johnson, Bolsonaro and Putin, especially around the Ukraine War. But what does it really mean to call something Orwellian? What would the man himself say about these crises, and what can we learn from his ideas? Orwell’s Ghosts introduces readers to Orwell in all his complexity, exploring his commitment to political liberty and economic justice alongside his problematic attitudes towards women. This free thinker’s witty and perceptive commentaries remain invaluable, from remarks on political truth and disinformation and observations on class, race and empire, to insights on the appeal and threat of authoritarianism, and the promise of socialism. Even Orwell’s misogyny offers troubling lessons about the left’s flawed relationship with gender equality. All of his books offer a remarkably resonant bridge between the first half of the twentieth century and the present day. Revisiting Orwell’s own age of rapid change and urgent crossroads, this book sheds unique light on both our recent past and the upheavals of today’s world.
Book Synopsis Midsummer Passion & Other Tales of Maine Cussedness by : Erskine Caldwell
Download or read book Midsummer Passion & Other Tales of Maine Cussedness written by Erskine Caldwell and published by Yankee Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 1990 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush by : Joan Hoff
Download or read book A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush written by Joan Hoff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-10 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush critiques U.S. foreign policy during this period by showing how moralistic diplomacy has increasingly assumed Faustian overtones, especially during the Cold War and following September 11. The ideological components of American diplomacy, originating in the late 18th and 19th centuries, evolved through the 20th century as U.S. economic and political power steadily increased. Seeing myth making as essential in any country's founding and a common determinant of its foreign policy, Professor Joan Hoff reveals how the basic belief in its exceptionalism has driven America's past and present attempts to remake the world in its own image. She expands her original concept of 'independent internationalism' as the modus operandi of U.S. diplomacy to reveal the many unethical Faustian deals the United States entered into since 1920 to obtain its current global supremacy.
Book Synopsis Burning Down George Orwell's House by : Andrew Ervin
Download or read book Burning Down George Orwell's House written by Andrew Ervin and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A darkly comic novel about advertising, truth, single malt, Scottish hospitality—or lack thereof—and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Ray Welter, who was until recently a high-flying advertising executive in Chicago, has left the world of newspeak behind. He decamps to the isolated Scottish Isle of Jura in order to spend a few months in the cottage where George Orwell wrote most of his seminal novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Ray is miserable, and quite prepared to make his troubles go away with the help of copious quantities of excellent scotch. But a few of the islanders take a decidedly shallow view of a foreigner coming to visit in order to sort himself out, and Ray quickly finds himself having to deal with not only his own issues but also a community whose eccentricities are at times amusing and at others downright dangerous. Also, the locals believe—or claim to believe—that there’s a werewolf about, and against his better judgment, Ray’s misadventures build to the night of a traditional, boozy werewolf hunt on the Isle of Jura on the summer solstice.
Download or read book Dixie Ghosts written by Frank D. McSherry and published by Thomas Nelson Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These terrifying anthologies contain some of the best in American ghost stories. Each of the books was edited by master anthologists Frank D. McSherry Jr., Charles G. Waugh, and Martin H. Greenberg and includes stories from such great horror fiction writers as Ambrose Bierce, Isaac Asimov, Madeleine L'Engle, and Manly Wade Wellman.
Book Synopsis Bold, Cautious, True by : Kevin Sharp
Download or read book Bold, Cautious, True written by Kevin Sharp and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Witch of the Cumberlands by : Mary Jo Stephens
Download or read book Witch of the Cumberlands written by Mary Jo Stephens and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the prophesied arrival of three children on Devil's Mountain a gentle elderly woman, whom the villagers call a witch, unravels the old mystery of a local mine disaster.
Book Synopsis I was Content and Not Content by : Cedric N. Chatterley
Download or read book I was Content and Not Content written by Cedric N. Chatterley and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A firsthand account of plant closure, heavily illustrated and told through edited oral history interviews. The story of Linda Lord and her experience when the Penobscot Poultry Company closed its doors in 1988, costing over 400 people their jobs.
Download or read book Yeats's Ghosts written by Brenda Maddox and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2000-09-19 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Butter Yeats, who some critics feel was the greatest English language poet of our century, led a life of many contradictions. He was Ireland's most revered writer and won the Nobel Prize for Literature. But in his private life, Yeats struggled with passionate, if unrequited, relationships with women and was haunted by the spirits of his ancestors. Renowned biographer Brenda Maddox examines the poet's life through the prism of his personal obsession with the supernatural and otherworldly. She considers for the first time the Automatic Script, the trancelike communication with supposed spirits that he and his much younger wife. Georgie, conducted during the early years of their marriage. Writing with edge, wit, and energy, she finds the essential clues to Yeats's life and work in his unusual relationships with women, most particularly Maude and Iseult Gonne, his wife Georgie, and his rarely discussed mother.
Book Synopsis Haunted People by : Hereward Carrington
Download or read book Haunted People written by Hereward Carrington and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1951 edition.
Download or read book Red Ellen written by Laura Beers and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellen Wilkinson viewed herself as part of an international radical community and became involved in socialist, feminist, and pacifist movements that spanned the globe. By focusing on the extent to which Wilkinson’s activism transcended Britain’s borders, Laura Beers adjusts our perception of the British Left in the early twentieth century.
Download or read book The Tower written by Uwe Tellkamp and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall. This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told through the tangled lives of a soldier, surgeon, nurse and publisher. With evocative detail, Uwe Tellkamp masterfully reveals the myriad perspectives of the time as people battled for individuality, retreated to nostalgia, chose to conform, or toed the perilous line between East and West. Poetic, heartfelt and dramatic, The Tower vividly resurrects the sights, scents and sensations of life in the GDR as it hurtled towards 9 November 1989.
Book Synopsis Virginia Woolf's Major Novels by : Maria DiBattista
Download or read book Virginia Woolf's Major Novels written by Maria DiBattista and published by New Haven : Yale University Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Your Britain written by Laura Beers and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Labour's electoral success of the late 20th century was due in no small part to its grasp of media communication. This book reminds us that the importance of the mass media to Labour's political fortunes is by no means a modern phenomenon.
Book Synopsis Jeffrey Introduces 13 More Southern Ghosts by : Kathryn Tucker Windham
Download or read book Jeffrey Introduces 13 More Southern Ghosts written by Kathryn Tucker Windham and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeffrey introduces us to 13 southern ghosts.
Download or read book Raven Rock written by Garrett M. Graff and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a 6-part mini-series called Why the Rest of Us Die airing on VICE TV! The shocking truth about the government’s secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil—even if the rest of us die—is “a frightening eye-opener” (Kirkus Reviews) that spans the dawn of the nuclear age to today, and "contains everything one could possibly want to know" (The Wall Street Journal). Every day in Washington, DC, the blue-and-gold first Helicopter Squadron, codenamed “MUSSEL,” flies over the Potomac River. As obvious as the Presidential motorcade, most people assume the squadron is a travel perk for VIPs. They’re only half right: while the helicopters do provide transport, the unit exists to evacuate high-ranking officials in the event of a terrorist or nuclear attack on the capital. In the event of an attack, select officials would be whisked by helicopters to a ring of secret bunkers around Washington, even as ordinary citizens were left to fend for themselves. “In exploring the incredible lengths (and depths) that successive administrations have gone to in planning for the aftermath of a nuclear assault, Graff deftly weaves a tale of secrecy and paranoia” (The New York Times Book Review) with details "that read like they've been ripped from the pages of a pulp spy novel" (Vice). For more than sixty years, the US government has been developing secret Doomsday strategies to protect itself, and the multibillion-dollar Continuity of Government (COG) program takes numerous forms—from its potential to evacuate the Liberty Bell from Philadelphia to the plans to launch nuclear missiles from a Boeing-747 jet flying high over Nebraska. Garrett M. Graff sheds light on the inner workings of the 650-acre compound, called Raven Rock, just miles from Camp David, as well as dozens of other bunkers the government built for its top leaders during the Cold War, from the White House lawn to Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado to Palm Beach, Florida, and the secret plans that would have kicked in after a Cold War nuclear attack to round up foreigners and dissidents and nationalize industries. Equal parts a presidential, military, and cultural history, Raven Rock tracks the evolution of the government plan and the threats of global war from the dawn of the nuclear era through the War on Terror.
