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Priests of Our Democracy
Priests of Our Democracy tells of the teachers and professors who battled the anti-communist witch hunt of the 1950s. It traces the political fortunes of academic freedom beginning in the late 19th century, both on campus and in the courts. Combining political and legal history with wrenching personal stories, the book details how the anti-communist excesses of the 1950s inspired the Supreme Court to recognize the vital role of teachers and professors in American democracy. The crushing of dissent in the 1950s impoverished political discourse in ways that are still being felt, and First Amendment academic freedom, a product of that period, is in peril today. In compelling terms, this book shows why the issue should matter to everyone.
The Epitome of Evil
This study explores the literary representations of Adolf Hitler in American fiction and makes the case that his figure has slowly developed from a means of left-wing critique into a device of right-wing affirmation.
Engaging the Media
Our culture is defined by the media. Television, movies, music, and magazines send us a barrage of messages everyday about how to think and act. What is a young person to do? How is he or she to make sense of all this? This book, Engaging the Media, gives teens insight into how the media affects them and how they can discern what is right and wrong in this confusing world. Young people are given practical tools to help young people make wise choices concerning entertainment. All this is done in light of God's purpose and plan for a young person's life. This book uses God's Word as the measuring stick for evaluating the messages sent by the media. Teens are challenged to make decisions based on the truths of Scripture.
A Family Failure
A Family Failure is a novel about Hank Drummer, who spends his short life trying to overcome the pressures and demands of a powerful, aggressive, and tyrannical father. Because he can’t live up to expectations, Hank has turned to drinking for relief. As the novel opens, we find him in the Purple Mist as he reviews the efforts he has made throughout his life to find relief and freedom from a dominating father.
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The Pope, His Banker, and Venice
This is a story of how men worked, intrigued, and made business deals in an Italy invaded by continental countries and England. It brings together diplomacy, war, business, and politics, juxtaposing differing institutional structures and political ways among Italy's city states, and bringing into focus the new men of the Renaissance.
John Ruskin, J.M.W. Turner and the Art of Water
This book assesses Ruskin’s and Turner’s mutual interest in the theme of water, with particular reference to The Harbours of England (1856), Ruskin’s book on ships and marine art to which are appended Turner’s 12 illustrations of the English ports. By considering existing scholarly works on Ruskin and Turner, the book begins by demonstrating that the two, despite their widely acknowledged relations, have rarely been examined in conjunction. It raises the question as to how the subject of water inspired the intellectual, aesthetic, philosophical, and scientific climate of the nineteenth century, both in Britain and abroad, and acknowledges the significance of the relationship between ...
The Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldmann
These two fragments of novels, Ingeborg Bachmann's only untranslated works of fiction, were intended to follow the widely acclaimed Malina in a cycle to be entitled Todesarten, or Ways of Dying. Although Bachmann died before completing them, The Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldmann stand on their own, continuing Bachmann's tradition of using language to confront the disease plaguing human relationships. Through the tales of two women in postwar Austria, Bachmann explores the ways of dying inflicted upon the living from outside and from within, through history, politics, religion, family, gender relations, and the self.Bachmann's allegiance to the twin muses of memory and history, as...
