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Life in the United States today is shot through with uncertainty:
about our jobs, our mortgaged houses, our retirement accounts, our
health, our marriages, and the future that awaits our children. For
many, our lives, public and private, have come to feel like the
discomfort and unease you experience the day or two before you get
really sick. Our life is a scratchy throat. John Marsh offers an
unlikely remedy for this widespread malaise: the poetry of Walt
Whitman. Mired in personal and political depression, Marsh turned
to Whitman--and it saved his life. In Walt We Trust: How a Queer
Socialist Poet Can Save America from Itself is a book about how
Walt Whitman can save America's life, too. Marsh identifies four
sources for our contemporary malaise (death, money, sex, democracy)
and then looks to a particular Whitman poem for relief from it. He
makes plain what, exactly, Whitman wrote and what he believed by
showing how they emerged from Whitman's life and times, and by
recreating the places and incidents (crossing Brooklyn ferry,
visiting wounded soldiers in hospitals) that inspired Whitman to
write the poems. Whitman, Marsh argues, can show us how to die, how
to accept and even celebrate our (relatively speaking) imminent
death. Just as important, though, he can show us how to live: how
to have better sex, what to do about money, and, best of all, how
to survive our fetid democracy without coming away stinking
ourselves. The result is a mix of biography, literary criticism,
manifesto, and a kind of self-help you're unlikely to encounter
anywhere else.
Essays reconsidering key topics in the history of late medieval
Scotland and northern England. The volume celebrates the career of
the influential historian of late medieval Scotland and northern
England, Dr Alexander (Sandy) Grant. Its contributors engage with
the profound shift in thinking about this society in the light of
his scholarship, and the development of the "New Orthodoxy", both
attending to the legacy of this discourse, and offering new
research with which to challenge or amend our understanding of late
medieval Scotland and northern England. Dr Grant's famously wide
and diverse historical interests are here reflected through three
main foci: kingship, lordship and identity. The volume includes
significant reassessments of the reputations of two kings,
Alexander I of Scotland and Henry V of England; an examination of
Richard III's relationship to the lordship of Pontefract; and a
study of the development of royal pardon in late medieval Scotland.
Further chapters consider the social influence and legal and
tenurial rights vested in aristocratic lineages, regional gentry
communities, and the leaders of burghal corporations. Finally, the
relationship between saints cults, piety and regnal and regional
identity in medieval Scotland is scrutinised in chapters on St
Margaret and St Ninian.
In Class Dismissed, John Marsh debunks a myth cherished by
journalists, politicians, and economists: that growing poverty and
inequality in the United States can be solved through education.
Using sophisticated analysis combined with personal experience in
the classroom, Marsh not only shows that education has little
impact on poverty and inequality, but that our mistaken beliefs
actively shape the way we structure our schools and what we teach
in them.
Rather than focus attention on the hierarchy of jobs and
power--where most jobs require relatively little education, and the
poor enjoy very little political power--money is funneled into
educational endeavors that ultimately do nothing to challenge
established social structures, and in fact reinforce them. And when
educational programs prove ineffective at reducing inequality, the
ones whom these programs were intended to help end up blaming
themselves. Marsh's struggle to grasp the connection between
education, poverty, and inequality is both powerful and
poignant.
In Class Dismissed, John Marsh debunks a myth cherished by
journalists, politicians, and economists: that growing poverty and
inequality in the United States can be solved through education.
Using sophisticated analysis combined with personal experience in
the classroom, Marsh not only shows that education has little
impact on poverty and inequality, but that our mistaken beliefs
actively shape the way we structure our schools and what we teach
in them.
Rather than focus attention on the hierarchy of jobs and
power--where most jobs require relatively little education, and the
poor enjoy very little political power--money is funneled into
educational endeavors that ultimately do nothing to challenge
established social structures, and in fact reinforce them. And when
educational programs prove ineffective at reducing inequality, the
ones whom these programs were intended to help end up blaming
themselves. Marsh's struggle to grasp the connection between
education, poverty, and inequality is both powerful and
poignant.
The Emotional Life of the Great Depression documents how Americans
responded emotionally to the crisis of the Great Depression. Unlike
most books about the 1930s, which focus almost exclusively on the
despair of the American people during the decade, this volume
explores the 1930s through other, equally essential emotions:
righteousness, panic, fear, awe, love, and hope. In expanding the
canon of Great Depression emotions, the book draws on an eclectic
archive of sources, including the ravings of a would-be
presidential assassin, stock market investment handbooks, a
Cleveland serial murder case, Jesse Owens's record-setting long
jump at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, King Edward VIII's abdication
from his throne to marry a twice-divorced American woman, and the
founding of Alcoholics Anonymous. In concert with these, it offers
new readings of the imaginative literature of the period, from
obscure Christian apocalyptic novels and H.P. Lovecraft short
stories to classics like John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and
Richard Wright's Native Son. The result is a new take on the Great
Depression, one that emphasizes its major events (the stock market
crash, unemployment, the passage of the Social Security Act) but
also, and perhaps even more so, its sensibilities, its structures
of feeling.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingA AcentsAcentsa A-Acentsa Acentss Legacy Reprint Series.
Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks,
notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this
work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of
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Max Edwards has done his time in the British Army. The big wide
world is now his Oyster. He has an Army Pension and his Bounty in
his pocket. He knows what he is going to do. He is going to make
money and plenty of it. Civvy street is not the friendly helpful
place he was expecting. The Stock Market beckons then turns on him.
Edwards has no choice but to adapt and overcome leading him into
the arms of the underworld. Edwards is now in business, which soon
gets out of control, he finds he has no where to turn and no way
out.
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