Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
10 best books like Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War (Edmund Wilson): The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community, Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department, A New Literary History of America, Children of Crisis: Selections from the Pulitzer Prize-winning five-volume Children of Crisis series, Selected Essays, The Contours of American History, The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition, The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society, In the American Grain, Samuel Johnson
| Author | William H. McNeill |
| ISBN | 0226561445 |
The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially independent careers, and argues instead that human...
| Author | Dean Acheson |
| ISBN | 0393304124 |
Acheson (1893–1971) was not only present at the creation of the postwar world, he was one of its chief architects. He joined the Department of State in 1941 as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs and, with brief intermissions, was continuously involved until 1953, when he left office...
| Author | Greil Marcus |
| ISBN | 0674035941 |
America is a nation making itself up as it goes along a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors...
| Author | Robert Coles |
| ISBN | 0316151025 |
In the 1950s Robert Coles began studying, living among, and, above all, listening to American children. The results of his efforts--revealed in five volumes published between 1967 and 1977--constitute one of the most searching and vigorous social studies ever undertaken by one person in the United...
| Author | T.S. Eliot |
| ISBN | 0151803870 |
The man's critical faculties were machete sharp and scalpel precise. Every essay in here reads like the work of somebody with a desk full of papers who throws them all on the floor in one motion and starts from scratch. The craftsmanship and attack strategy is consistently illuminating. Reading his...
| Author | William Appleman Williams |
| ISBN | 0393305619 |
William Appleman Williams was one of America’s greatest critics of US imperialism. The Contours of American History, first published in 1961, reached back to seventeenth-century British history to argue that the relationship between liberalism and empire was in effect a grand compromise, with...
| Author | M.H. Abrams |
| ISBN | 0195014715 |
It's the first time I've had this reaction when reading an 'academic' book: awe and envy. I usually have 2 stock reactions: 1. interesting, but the author's argument was screwed in A and B manner and 2. how did this guy even get his phd?! in a cereal box!?
M.H. Abrams is too good to be anywhere near...
| Author | Lionel Trilling |
| ISBN | 0151511977 |
The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling's essays...
| Author | William Carlos Williams |
| ISBN | 0811202305 |
Prose essays ranging in theme from Erik the Red and Christopher Columbus to Abraham Lincoln about what it means to be an American.
William Carlos Williams was not a historian, but he was fascinated by the texture of American history. He found in the fabric of familiar episodes new shades of meaning,...
| Author | Walter Jackson Bate |
| ISBN | 1887178767 |
W. Jackson Bate's Samuel Johnson has been hailed as a supreme example of the biographer's art and the first great modern life of Johnson. Bate's work is literary biography at its finest, delving into the character that formed Johnson's awesome intellect and fueled his prodigious output. When first...
| Author | Herbert David Croly |
| ISBN | 1555530621 |
Herbert Croly was a journalist and writer who wrote his most significant work just after the beginning of the twentieth century. He makes the case most simply: there have been two contending forces within liberalism fighting for the soul of the country from the very beginning. That is, there have been...
| Author | Lawrence Gowing |
| ISBN | 0520212762 |
I simply adore Vermeer.
Many years ago I saw The Astronomer, at the Louvre, and I have never looked back. Since then I have seen both Lady Standing at a Virginal and Lady Seated at a Virginal [National Gallery], The Allegory of Faith, Portrait of a Young Womand, Woman with a Water Jug and A Girl Asleep...
| Author | Walter Lippmann |
| ISBN | 0766195589 |
1929. Lippman, a Pulitzer Prize winning political columnist, helped found the liberal New Republic magazine. His writings there influenced Woodrow Wilson, who selected Lippman to help formulate his famous Fourteen Points and develop the concept of the League of Nations. A Preface to Morals endorses...
| Author | Cecil Woodham-Smith |
| ISBN | 0689706529 |
I don't usually write reviews because I feel I can never do the book justice. But for this one I'm going to try.
If I could give this book 10 stars, I would. Incredibly well-written, well organized, and obviously well researched.
I love reading biographies but I've often found the biographer...
| Author | Reinhold Niebuhr |
| ISBN | 0664257097 |
The Nature and Destiny of Man issues a vigorous challenge to Western civilization to understand its roots in the faith of the Bible, particularly the Hebraic tradition. The growth, corruption, and purification of the important Western emphases on individuality are insightfully chronicled here....
| Author | David Cecil |
| ISBN | 0517537826 |
David Cecil's classic biographies The Young Melbourne (and the Story of his Marriage with Lady Caroline Lamb) and Lord M (or The Later Life of Lord Melbourne) are here published in a single volume, as the author had always intended.
Melbourne, who lived from 1779-1848, was one of the most curious...
| Author | Gunnar Myrdal |
| ISBN | 1560008563 |
In this landmark effort to understand African American people in the New World, Gunnar Myrdal provides deep insight into the contradictions of American democracy as well as a study of a people within a people. The title of the book, 'An American Dilemma', refers to the moral contradiction of a nation...
| Author | Ian Hacking |
| ISBN | 0521380146 |
In this important new study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaken in such previous works as his best selling Emergence of Probability. Professor Hacking shows how by the late nineteenth century it became...
| Author | H.L. Mencken |
| ISBN | 0394400755 |
The American Language, first published in 1919, is H. L. Mencken's book about the English language as spoken in the United States. Mencken was inspired by "the argot of the colored waiters" in Washington, as well as one of his favorite authors, Mark Twain, and his experiences on the streets of Baltimore....
The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans
| Author | Charles Royster |
| ISBN | 0679738789 |
From the moment the Civil War began, partisans on both sides were calling not just for victory but for extermination. And both sides found leaders who would oblige. In this vivid and fearfully persuasive book, Charles Royster looks at William Tecumseh Sherman and Stonewall Jackson, the men who came...
| Author | Jonathan D. Spence |
| ISBN | 0140062793 |
“A milestone in Western studies of China.” (John K. Fairbank)
In this masterful, highly original approach to modern Chinese history, Jonathan D. Spence shows us the Chinese revolution through the eyes of its most articulate participants—the writers, historians, philosophers,...
| Author | D.H. Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0140183779 |
Lawrence asserted that 'the proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it'. In these highly individual, penetrating essays he has exposed 'the American whole soul' within some of that continent's major works of literature. In seeking to establish the status of writings...
| Author | Richard Slotkin |
| ISBN | 0806132299 |
In Regeneration Through Violence, the first of his trilogy on the mythology of the American West, Richard Slotkin shows how the attitudes and traditions that shape American culture evolved from the social and psychological anxieties of European settlers struggling in a strange new world to claim...
Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 1: Introductory Orientations
Dr Joseph Needham's account of the Chinese achievement in science & technology will stand as one of the great works of our time. It's been acclaimed by specialists in both East & West & also by readers with wider & more general interests. The text, based on research of a high critical...
| Author | Leslie A. Fiedler |
| ISBN | 1564781631 |
A retrospective article on Leslie Fiedler in the New York Times Book Review in 1965 referred to Love and Death in the American Novel as “one of the great, essential books on the American imagination . . . an accepted major work.” This groundbreaking work views in depth both American literature and...
