Lewis: 5152 books
by Lewis Spence
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
Lewis Spence after 40 years of painstaking study produced this book on the Egyptian Mysteries, which is also notable as the first work written in English which attempts to present the esoteric traditions of the land of the Nile in a form accessible to the modern reader. The ancient Egyptions located...
by Lewis Lapham
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2001
For fifteen years, Lewis Lapham has written a monthly column in Harper's Magazine, for which he won a 1995 National Magazine Award for his "exhilarating point of view in an age of conformity." This major collection of Lapham's essays defines his distinct view of the way the world really...
Gag Rule
On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
From one of America’s most important voices of protest, an urgent polemic about the strangling of meaningful dissent—the lifeblood of our democracy—at the hands of a government and media increasingly beholden to the wealthy few.
Dissent is democracy. Democracy is in trouble. Never before,...
1968
The Election That Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
The race for the White House in 1968 was a watershed event in American politics. In this brilliantly succinct narrative analysis, Lewis L. Gould shows how the events of that tumultuous year changed the way Americans felt about politics and their national leaders; how Republicans used the skills they...
The First Modern Clash over Federal Power
Wilson versus Hughes in the Presidential Election of 1916
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2016
Fully examined for the first time in this engrossing book by one of America’s preeminent presidential scholars, the election that pitted Woodrow Wilson against Charles Evan Hughes emerges as a clear template for the partisan differences of the modern era. The 1916 election dramatically enacted the...
by Lewis Black
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
What do we believe? And in God's name why?
These are the thorny questions that Lewis Black, the bitingly funny comedian, social critic, and bestselling author, tackles in his new book, Me of Little Faith. And he's come up with some answers. Or at least his answers. In more than two dozen essays...
Edith Kermit Roosevelt
Creating the Modern First Lady
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Few first ladies have enjoyed a better reputation among historians than Edith Kermit Roosevelt. Aristocratic and sophisticated, tasteful and discreet, she managed the White House with a sure hand. Her admirers say that she never slipped in carrying out her duties as hostess, mother, and adviser to...
by Lewis Desoto
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Mad, bad, and dangerous to know is how Victorian society dismissed Emily Carr. Lewis DeSoto, a painter and novelist, sees Emily Carr as a woman in search of God, freedom, and the essence of art. Her quest to be an independent woman and a modern artist takes her from the studios of Paris to deep inside...
The Modern American Presidency
Second Edition, Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
When the first edition of this book appeared in 2003, it was chosen as a Main Selection of both the Book-of-the-Month Club and History Book Club and quickly became the standard work on the modern American presidency—from William McKinley through William Jefferson Clinton. In that original edition,...
by John Lewis Gaddis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. The Landscape of History provides a searching...
Rise and Shine
The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Journey from Near Death to Full Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
When I was thirty-five, my wife and I were both reported dead by the first paramedics to arrive at the scene of a seventy-five-mile-an-hour hit-and-run. My wife Marcy died instantly that day. With brain damage from a massive stroke and my body broken, I wasn’t expected to survive either.”So begins...
by Brad Alan Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
The America's Cup - it was such a big deal back in 1986-87. The Cup had been won by Australia II a few years earlier. Now we were going to win it back. The 'we' in this instance is the syndicate from San Francisco, the USA. Skipper Tom Blackaller at the helm. I was a lowly grinder -...
Common as Air
Revolution, Art, and Ownership
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Common as Air offers a stirring defense of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have inherited from the past that continues to enrich our present. Suspicious of the current idea that all creative work is "intellectual property," Lewis Hyde turns to America's founding...
by Bob Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Feminist ideology has seeped into every aspect of our society. This book is a sobering true story of tragedy, suicide, and murder directly caused by feminism. It not only chronicles true stories that show feminism's discrimination against men, it's backed by peer-reviewed research. Additionally,...