Описание: Spy romances of Cold War counterespionage evoke scenes of heroic FBI and CIA agents dedicated to smashing communism and its subversive coterie of intellectual fellow travelers bent on painting the world red. John Rodden cuts this tall tale down to its authentic pint size, refusing to indulge the public relations myth promoted by J. Edgar Hoover`s FBI. In Of G-Men and Eggheads, Rodden portrays federal agents` hilarious obsession with monitoring that ever-present threat to national security, the American literary intellectual. Drawing on government dossiers and archives, Rodden focuses on the onetime members of a radical political sect of ex-Trotskyists (barely numbering a thousand at its height), the so-called New York intellectuals. He describes the nonsensical decades-long pursuit of this group of intellectuals, especially Lionel Trilling, Dwight Macdonald, and Irving Howe. The Keystone Cops style of numerous FBI agents is documented carefully in Rodden`s meticulous case studies of how Hoover`s men recruited informants to snoop on the "Commies," opened their personal mail, tracked their movements, and reported on their wives and friends.
Автор: Rodden Jeremy Название: Toonopolis: Gemini ISBN: 0983425396 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780983425397 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2757.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Toonopolis is a cartoon city that is home to the thoughts and ideas of all sentient beings in the universe. As the center of the Tooniverse, it acts as an other-worldly rest stop for these creations.Gemini is a teenage human boy who is thrust into Toonopolis through his father's scientific research program. He loses part of himself in the process and immediately begins a quest to regain his lost memories with the help of his Tooniverse guide named Jimbob the Talking Eggplant.After an altercation with a mysterious Shadowy Figure, Gemini's mission is changed, an he begins a new quest to defeat Shadowy Figure and protect Toonopolis from his nefarious destruction. Along the way, he meets new friends, discovers just how diverse and strange Toonopolis is, and learns lessons about compassion, forgiveness, redemption, and being true to oneself.
Автор: Rodden Sean Название: Roars of War: The War for the North: Book Two ISBN: 1974648818 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781974648818 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 4309.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Rodden Lois Название: Modern Transits ISBN: 0866901515 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780866901512 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 4405.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Robinson Ph. D. Tara Rodden, Robinson Ph. D. Tara Rodden Название: Sexy + Soul-Full: A Woman`s Guide to Productivity ISBN: 0996472622 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780996472623 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3093.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Accounts of human rights violations committed from the 1950s to the 1980s by the communist dictatorship in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR).
Автор: Rodden John Название: The Unexamined Orwell ISBN: 0292743882 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780292743885 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 5320.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The year 1984 is just a memory, but the catchwords of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four still routinely pepper public discussions of topics ranging from government surveillance and privacy invasion to language corruption and bureaucratese. Orwell's work pervades the cultural imagination, while others of his literary generation are long forgotten. Exploring this astonishing afterlife has become the scholarly vocation of John Rodden, who is now the leading authority on the reception, impact, and reinvention of George Orwell—the man and writer—as well as of "Orwell" the cultural icon and historical talisman.
In The Unexamined Orwell, Rodden delves into dimensions of Orwell's life and legacy that have escaped the critical glare. Rodden discusses how several leading American intellectuals have earned the title of Orwell's "successor," including Lionel Trilling, Dwight Macdonald, Irving Howe, Christopher Hitchens, and John Lukacs. He then turns to Germany and focuses on the role and relevance of Nineteen Eighty-Four in the now-defunct communist nation of East Germany. Rodden also addresses myths that have grown up around Orwell's life, including his "more than half-legendary" encounter with Ernest Hemingway in liberated Paris in March 1945, and analyzes literary issues such as his utopian sensibility and his prose style. Finally, Rodden poses the endlessly debated question, "What Would George Orwell Do?," and speculates about how the prophet of Nineteen Eighty-Four would have reacted to world events. In so doing, Rodden shows how our responses to this question reveal much about our culture's ongoing need to reappropriate "Orwell."
Описание: A prizewinning political scientist traces the origins of urban-rural political conflict and shows how geography shapes elections in America and beyond Why is it so much easier for the Democratic Party to win the national popular vote than to build and maintain a majority in Congress? Why can Democrats sweep statewide offices in places like Pennsylvania and Michigan yet fail to take control of the same states' legislatures? Many place exclusive blame on partisan gerrymandering and voter suppression. But as political scientist Jonathan A. Rodden demonstrates in Why Cities Lose, the left's electoral challenges have deeper roots in economic and political geography. In the late nineteenth century, support for the left began to cluster in cities among the industrial working class. Today, left-wing parties have become coalitions of diverse urban interest groups, from racial minorities to the creative class. These parties win big in urban districts but struggle to capture the suburban and rural seats necessary for legislative majorities. A bold new interpretation of today's urban-rural political conflict, Why Cities Lose also points to electoral reforms that could address the left's under-representation while reducing urban-rural polarization.
When authors are interviewed about their books or themselves, much more is going on than a simple conversation. The interview becomes a performance space for authorial orchestration and self-promotion, and interviewers in turn respond to such self-display and theatrics.
Featuring absorbing conversations with nine well-known authors, including poets Richard Howard and Gerald Stern, novelist Isabel Allende, and scholar-intellectual Camille Paglia, Performing the Literary Interview is the first in-depth look at this type of performance art. Interviews with poets, fiction writers, and intellectuals enable John Rodden to identify a range of rhetorical strategies and their effects and to formulate a typology for appreciating the various roles that interviewers and interviewees assume. Traditionalists foreground their work rather than themselves, raconteurs are storytellers who skillfully spin anecdotes and creatively showcase their personalities, and advertisers more explicitly use the literary interview to promote and sell themselves. This pioneering, persuasive study stakes a claim to a new area of scholarly inquiry in the humanities. The literary interview can no longer be considered only as a voyeuristic window on an author, or a celebrity vehicle, or even an entertaining diversion, but should also be approached as a serious genre meriting scholarly attention and analysis.
Автор: John Rodden Название: Irving Howe and the Critics: Celebrations and Attacks ISBN: 0803239335 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803239333 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 3430.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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Irving Howe and the Critics is a selection of essays and reviews about the work of Irving Howe (1920–93), a vocal radical humanist and the most influential American socialist intellectual of his generation. Howe authored eighteen books, edited twenty-five more, wrote dozens of articles and reviews, and edited the magazine Dissent for forty years after founding it. His writings cover subjects ranging from U.S. labor to the vicissitudes of American communism and socialism to Yiddishkeit and contemporary politics. His book World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made received the National Book Award for Nonfiction.
John Rodden has chosen essays and reviews that focus on Howe’s major works and on the disputes they generated. He features both Dissent contributors and those who have dissented from the Dissenters—on the Right as well as the Left. Rodden includes a few stern assessments of Howe from his less sympathetic critics, testifying not only to the range of response—from admiration to hostility—that his work received but also to his stature on the Left as a prime intellectual target of neoconservative fire.
Автор: Rodden Jonathan A., Wibbels Erik Название: Decentralized Governance and Accountability ISBN: 1108708862 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108708869 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 6758.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is for those who need a broad overview of contemporary knowledge about decentralized governance and development or are trying to identify gaps in the literature. This volume will be of use to policy practitioners and students in development studies, political economy, and comparative politics.
Автор: Henderzahs Patricia Rodden Название: Wrap Your Arms Around Me ISBN: 1664228543 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781664228542 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1510.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Wrap Your Arms Around Me presents a prayer in the form of a poem. It seeks to nurture a child's relationship with God from an early age. In this way, little ones will know God as a protector, teacher, and comforter. Including colorful illustrations and a lively meter, this verse can serve as a bedtime story to help children sleep, and it allows adults in the child's life to find peace in resolving the day.
Offering a bedtime prayer in poetic form, this verse entrusts children into God's arms for the night and provides peace for readers of all ages. I'll need you to guide me on my path, I know, so help me to feel you beside me as I go. Thank you, God, for this day. Wrap your arms around me and keep me safe and healthy till the new day is here.
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