Let's set the scene: there's a regular on his barstool, beer in hand. He's watching a young couple execute a complicated series of moves on the dance floor, while at the table in the corner the DJ adjusts his headphones and slips a new beat into the mix. These are all experiences created by a given scene--one where we feel connected to other people, in places like a bar or a community center, a neighborhood parish or even a train station. Scenes enable experiences, but they also cultivate skills, create ambiances, and nourish communities. In Scenescapes, Daniel Aaron Silver and Terry Nichols Clark examine the patterns and consequences of the amenities that define our streets and strips. They articulate the core dimensions of the theatricality, authenticity, and legitimacy of local scenes--cafes, churches, restaurants, parks, galleries, bowling alleys, and more. Scenescapes not only reimagines cities in cultural terms, it details how scenes shape economic development, residential patterns, and political attitudes and actions. In vivid detail and with wide-angle analyses--encompassing an analysis of 40,000 ZIP codes--Silver and Clark give readers tools for thinking about place; tools that can teach us where to live, work, or relax, and how to organize our communities.

Unique among American novels for its epic scope and panoramic and social sweep, John Dos Passos' U.S.A. has long been acknowledged as a monument of modern fiction. In the novels that make up the trilogy - The 42nd Parallel (1930), 1919 (1932), and The Big Money (1936) - Dos Passos creates an unforgettable collective portrait of America, shot through with sardonic comedy and brilliant social observation. He interweaves the careers of his characters and the events of their time with a narrative verve and breathtaking technical skill that make U.S.A. among the most compulsively readable of modern classics. In his prologue Dos Passos writes: "U.S.A. is the slice of a continent. U.S.A. is a group of holding companies, some aggregations of trade unions, a set of laws bound in calf, a radio network, a chain of moving picture theatres, a column of stock quotations rubbed out and written in by a Western Union boy on a blackboard, a public library full of old newspapers and dogeared history books with protests scrawled on the margins in pencil...But mostly U.S.A. is the speech of the people". The trilogy is filled with American speech: labor radicals and advertising executives, sailors and stenographers, interior decorators and movie stars. The volume contains newly researched chronologies of Dos Passos' life and of world events cited in U.S.A., notes, and an essay on textual selection.

In a timely new release, Salomon revisits political polarization, compassion fatigue, even Girardian Theory, making the case that religious leaders absolutely must include neurodiverse humanity in religious life as spiritual equals, carefully listen to the spiritual voices of neurodiversity and accommodate neurodiverse individuals, if organized religion is going to have positive, life-affirming relations with the neurodiversity barricade, at all. In Salomon's long awaited autism story, Salomon addresses directly how his autistic Christian ecological identity informs his activism, scholarship, method of theological reflection and spirituality. Salomon bases his "serious and radical" critique of normal society on the planetary crisis and institutional animal cruelty, attempting to reconcile disability justice with the planetary agenda, in the process. Salomon demonstrates that in the long-run, including neurodiversity and disability justice on the planetary agenda will help accelerate non-disabled efforts towards sustainability, justice and nonviolence. Salomon offers a practical framework with concrete guidance to the various disability and faith communities alike from a Christian liberation theology perspective, which will help realize a world worth living in, for everyone.

Salomon is back with an all-new book on Christian ecotheology, with the goal of "breaking the silence" on "political polarization" and "compassion fatigue." Salomon candidly takes on positively, constructively, and sympathetically, the highly controversial, highly taboo, yet highly urgent topics of "political polarization" and "compassion fatigue" in politics and religion. All this is within an ecological-planetary context, including animals, disability, and neurodiversity. "Have Mercy on Me" is Salomon's most personal, creative, and accessible work yet. Salomon not only confesses his own stories of brushes with "political polarization" and struggles with "compassions fatigue." Salomon also confesses how the God of the Bible has helped him recover from "compassion fatigue" both personally and politically, helping Salomon to not give-up on the ecological struggle. Salomon identifies "compassion fatigue" as a major problem. He bases his conclusions on his own hard-won experiences, the experiences of other activists, and extensive research. "Compassion Fatigue" is a major issue which green movements need to take more seriously then they have, to help move the planetary agenda beyond political impasse to ecological resolution. At its heart, Salomon maintains that "compassion fatigue" occurs because we lack appropriate integration between our highest ideals and our everyday realities. "Have Mercy on Me, an Ecological Sinner" not only provides fresh critical analysis of the previsions, hypocrisies, and atrocities of various religious and secular movements throughout human history from Christianity to Communism. It also offers an alternative, more positive, empowering Christian ecological vision, and a much more hopeful, satisfying scenario about the future of Life on Earth. Moving beyond partisan politics, polemic posturing, divisive thinking, and false choices, Salomon crosses academic disciplines, political ideologies, religious faiths, even oceans, in an attempt to create a more inclusive, accessible, and doctrinally sound, yet uniquely Christian ecological vision. Salomon argues for ecological activism without partisan politics, environmental ethics without religious guilt, deep ecology without heretical doctrine, and God without organized religion. Salomon brings together all his secular academic training, Christian faith, Jewish identity, political commitments, previous works, and his life experiences being a person with Asperger's. He creates a Christian ecopsychology which contends that there is a relationship between the alienation of modern humanity, institutional animal cruelty, and the planetary crisis which must be redressed through personal relationships, political empowerment, and ecological hope.

Daniel Salomon unveils a "makeover" of his earlier concept--- a proposed Master of Arts Program in Christian Environmental Studies which is full, in-residency, accredited, non-secular, Christocentric, and life-affirming. With refined syllabuses and readings, a more user-friendly format and a proposal for a faith-based school of the environment, Salomon incoroperates new insights, new resources, new breakthroughs in the feild and over five years of hard-won professional experience. Showing why existing programs are insufficient and getting beyond just trying to convert Christians to environmentalism, Christian Environmental Studies helps people, once they are on board with the Christian environmental "bandwagon," steady the course. Christian Environmental Studies is for anyone who wants to deepen and live-out their ecological commitments and is especially targeted towards Christian academics and administrators at seminaries, theological schools, divinity schools, and Christian colleges and universities, who want to address the environment, but are not quite sure how to do it. At heart, Christian Environmental Studies is a book about Christian environmental leadership. In an issue no more urgent, Salomon continues to talk to the Christian faith community about the need to harness, systematize, and structure their newfound ecological awareness toward creating green social structures in the Body of Christ. Focusing on the sector of Christian academia, Salomon makes the case why Christians need to channel their impetus for global environmental change towards the goal of actualization and realization making ecological commitments systemic and structural to Christiantom. Salomon demonstrates why it is time now to take Christian environmentalism to the next level. It is time more than ever, especially since Christian environmentalism is more and more being adopted by theologians, pastors and even by some secular environmentalists, to get beyond angry sermons and top-down resolutions, to looking at planetary issues more thoughtfully, to empower more colloberation by the laity, to fully welcome the full diversity of the environmental and animal movements, becomming a more coherent, life-affirming ecological voice in the process. Moving the planetary agenda from Sunday worship services to Christian acedemia and involving the laity would reduce political polarization in America, increase ecological commitment and maybe even save community in America.

MEN OF GOOD HOPE A Story of American Progressives DANIEL AARON New York OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1951 Copyright 1951 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Printed in the United States of America For Charles Aaron ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The research for this book, begun in the fall of 1947 5 was made possible by a fellowship from the John Simon Guggen heim Memorial Foundation. I should like to express my gratitude to the Foundation for this grant. Many friends have given me assistance and criticism. I cannot mention them all, but I am particularly indebted to the following Newton Arvin, for reading and criticizing my manuscript and help ing me in innumerable ways Foster Rhea and Marian Dulles, for reading the manuscript and making valuable recommendations on arrangement and structure and William Leuchtenburg, for his many criticisms and suggestions. I am also indebted to George H. Geiger for reading the chapter on Henry George, to Bernard Barber and Charles Page for read ing the chapter on Veblen, and to Henry May for reading the last chapter, In Retrospect. The following people gave me ideas, made corrections, and facilitated the job of research Henry David, Robert G. Davis, Chester M. Destler, Bernard DeVoto, David Donald, Harold Faulkner, Richard Hofstadter, Howard Mumford Jones, Alfred Kazin, Richard Lewis, F. O. Matthiessen, Stewart Mitchell, John C. Ranney, Max Salvadori, Peter Viereck, and Conrad Wright. I am grateful to Margaret Johnson, the Librarian of Smith College, for her many services. I should also like to thank Agnes Inglis, Curator of the Joseph A. Labadie Collection of Labor Materials at the University of Michigan Library Anne S. Pratt, Reference Librarian of the Yale UniversityLibrary Robert W. Hill, Keeper of Manuscripts of the New York Public Library William A. Jackson, Carolyn E. Jakeman, and the late Mrs. Frederick Winslow, all of the Houghton Library of Harvard vii Vill ACKNOWLEDGMENTS University St. George L. Sioussot, Chief of the Division of Manu scripts of the Library of Congress Nora E. Cordingley, in charge of the Theodore Roosevelt Collection at Harvard University and the Librarians of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. I am greatly indebted to Agnes De Mille for permitting me to consult her mothers manuscript life of Henry George and for showing me pictures and other mementos of her grandfather to Marian Bellamy Eamshaw, for reading my chapter on Edward Bellamy and furnishing me with interesting details of her fathers life to Abigail Adams Homans, for giving me access to the letters of Brooks Adams to his brother Henry and for her illuminating comments about the characters and personalities of her uncles and to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., for permission to quote portions of the correspondence between his grandfather and Brooks Adams. Short sections of this book have appeared in modified form in The New England Quarterly, The Antioch Review, and American Quarterly. D. A. Northampton, Mass. October 1950 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION xi PART ONE Precursors 1. Emerson and the Progressive Tradition 3 2. Theodore Parker The Battle of the Nineteenth Century 21 PART Two Prophetic Agitators 3 3. Henry George The Great Paradox 55 4. Edward Bellamy Village Utopian 92 5. Henry Demarest Lloyd The Middle-Class Conscience 133 6. William Dean Howells The Gentleman from Altruria 172 7. Thorstein Veblen Moralist and Rhetorician 208 PART THREE Latter-dayProgressives 8. Theodore Roosevelt and Brooks Adams Pseudo-Progressives-245 9. In Retrospect 1912-1950 281 NOTES ON SOURCES 309 INDEX 323 INTRODUCTION This is a book about American progressives. It is also an attempt to rehabilitate the progressive tradition, currently under attack by both liberals and anti-liberals, and to show that progressivism was not always the shabby thing it is now made out to be. Progressivism 5 is conceived today either as the sentimental maunderings of the soft-minded and the muddle-headed or as communism in disguise...

The eleven essays that make up this volume point to some of the new directions biography and biographical criticism have taken in recent years. Among the subjects treated are the responsibilities of the authorized biographer, the practice of biography as it intersects ethnography, biographies of historians by historians, the eulogy as a biographical form, the challenge of rendering the uneventful life, and the biographical implications of a single piece of writing. The essays range from general discussions of biographical aims to fresh examinations of particular biographical works. Despite the diversity of their topics, the authors suggest-if only inadvertently-why so many scholars and writers are taking a biographical approach to human experience.

THE INMAN DIARIES a chamber opera by Thomas Oboe Lee based on the life and writings of Arthur Crew Inman and on the play "Visitations" by Lorenzo DeStefano INTERMEZZO NEW ENGLAND CHAMBER OPERA SERIES September 14-16, 2007 Tower Auditorium Theatre Massachusetts College of Art621 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 617-899-4261 for further information produced with the cooperation of Harvard University Press

Between 1919 and his death by suicide in 1963, Arthur Crew Inman wrote what is surely one of the fullest diaries ever kept by any American. Convinced that his bid for immortality required complete candor, he held nothing back. This abridgment of the original 155 volumes is at once autobiography, social chronicle, and an apologia addressed to unborn readers.

Into this fascinating record Inman poured memories of a privileged Atlanta childhood, disastrous prep-school years, a nervous collapse in college followed by a bizarre life of self-diagnosed invalidism. Confined to a darkened room in his Boston apartment, he lived vicariously: through newspaper advertisements he hired "talkers" to tell him the stories of their lives, and he wove their strange histories into the diary. Young women in particular fascinated him. He studied their moods, bought them clothes, fondled them, and counseled them on their love affairs. His marriage in 1923 to Evelyn Yates, the heroine of the diary, survived a series of melodramatic episodes. While reflecting on national politics, waifs and revolutions, Inman speaks directly about his fears, compulsions, fantasies, and nightmares, coaxing the reader into intimacy with him. Despite his shocking self-disclosures he emerges as an oddly impressive figure.

This compelling work is many things: a case history of a deeply troubled man; the story of a transplanted and self-conscious southerner; a historical overview of Boston illuminated with striking cityscapes; an odd sort of American social history. But chiefly it is, as Inman himself came to see, a gigantic nonfiction novel, a new literary form. As it moves inexorably toward a powerful denouement, "The Inman Diary" is an addictive narrative.

"Writers on the Left" provides a chronicle of the involvement of American writers with the critical style and politics of communism. Emphasizing the golden age of American communism, Aaron traces the movement's bohemian origins to its demise in the early 1940s. Aaron creates a perceptive portrait of writers like Max Eastman, Floyd Dell, John Reed, Mike Gold and Joseph Freeman. Aaron also discusses the attractions of communism for more ambivalent but influential "fellow travellers" such as Edmund Wilson, Malcolm Cowley, Theodore Dreiser, Richard Wright and Langston Hughes.

Only a few of us seek immortality, and fewer still by writing. But Arthur Inman challenged the odds. He calculated that if he kept a diary and spared no thoughts or actions, was entirely honest and open, and did not care about damage or harm to himself or others, he would succeed in gaining attention beyond the grave that he could not attain in life. The diary became a many-layered and strikingly animated work of a gifted writer, by turns charming, repellent, shocking, cruel, and comical. But the diary is also an uninhibited history of his times, of his eccentricities and fantasies, of his bizarre marriage arrangements and sexual adventures. Inman's explorations of his own troubled nature made him excessively curious about the secret lives of others. Like some ghostly doctor-priest, he chronicled their outpourings of head and heart as vividly as he did his own. The diary reads like a nonfiction novel as it moves inexorably toward disaster. This is an abridged version of the celebrated two-volume work published by Harvard as The Inman Diary: A Public and Private Confession.