The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief
10 best books like The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief (George M. Marsden): H.P. Lovecraft: A Biography, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, I Am America (And So Can You!), America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't, The Violent Bear It Away, How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture, The Book of Margery Kempe, Vita Nuova, The Wood Beyond the World, Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art
| Author | L. Sprague de Camp |
| ISBN | 1566199948 |
This biography relates a paradoxical, ironic literary life--that of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, who never had a book of his stories published in his lifetime, but who became a best-selling author after his death; who died in poverty and obscurity, convinced of his failure, but who is today hailed as...
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
| Author | Aeschylus |
| ISBN | 0140443339 |
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In the Oresteia—the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity—Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos.
Moving from darkness to light, from...
I Am America (And So Can You!)
| Author | Stephen Colbert |
| ISBN | 0446580503 |
Congratulations--just by opening the cover of this book you became 25% more patriotic.
From Stephen Colbert, the host of television's highest-rated punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other 23½ hours of your day. I Am America (And So Can You!) contains all of the opinions...
America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't
| Author | Stephen Colbert |
| ISBN | 0446583979 |
Book nation, in the history of mankind there has never been a greater country than America. You could say we're the #1 nation at being the best at greatness.
But as perfect as America is in every single way, America is broken! And we can't exchange it because we're 236 years past the 30-day return...
| Author | Flannery O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0374505241 |
First published in 1960, The Violent Bear It Away is now a landmark in American literature. It is a dark and absorbing example of the Gothic sensibility and bracing satirical voice that are united in Flannery O'Conner's work. In it, the orphaned Francis Marion Tarwater and his cousins, the schoolteacher...
How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
| Author | Francis A. Schaeffer |
| ISBN | 0891072926 |
How Should We Then Live is a discussion of how philosophy, art, and music have changed throughout history, and what these changes say about the human race and where we are headed.
This book reads like an art history class. Schaeffer takes you through history chronologically, through the dark...
The Book of Margery Kempe
| Author | Margery Kempe |
| ISBN | 0393976394 |
The Book of Margery Kempe (c. 1436-8) is the extraordinary account of a medieval wife, mother, and mystic. Known as the earliest autobiography written in the English language, Kempe's Book describes the dramatic transformation of its heroine from failed businesswoman and lustful young wife to devout...
| Author | Dante Alighieri |
| ISBN | 0192839357 |
Vita Nuova (1292-94) is regarded as one of Dante's most profound creations. The thirty-one poems in the first of his major writings are linked by a lyrical prose narrative celebrating and debating the subject of love. Composed upon Dante's meeting with Beatrice and the "Lord of Love," it is a love story...
| Author | William Morris |
| ISBN | 1587152142 |
"The Wood Beyond the World" was first published in 1894 and its author, William Morris is often considered one of the authors who aided in the growth of fantasy, utopian literature, and science fiction. C.S. Lewis cites William Morris as one of his favorite authors and J.R.R. Tolkein admits to being...
Modern theories of meaning usually culminate in a critique of science. This book presents a study of human intelligence beginning with a semantic theory and leading into a critique of music. By implication it sets up a theory of all the arts; the transference of its basic concepts to other arts than music...
| Author | W.H. Auden |
| ISBN | 0679724842 |
In this volume, W. H. Auden assembled, edited, and arranged the best of his prose writing, including the famous lectures he delivered as Oxford Professor of Poetry. The result is less a formal collection of essays than an extended and linked series of observations—on poetry, art, and the observation...
Chapman, writing in the New York News called The Lark: "a beautiful, beautiful play It is always the story of a simple girl who became an inspired warrior and then was tried by the church but there have been several ways of telling it. Anouilh's way, and Miss Hellman's, is to try to tell the story from two...
| Author | John D. Caputo |
| ISBN | 0253211123 |
"Caputo's book is riveting.... A singular achievement of stylistic brio and impeccable scholarship, it breaks new ground in making a powerful case for treating Derrida as homo religiosis.... There can be no mistaking the importance of Caputo's work." --Edith Wyschogrod
"No one interested...
| Author | Aristophanes |
| ISBN | 0140442871 |
Aristophanes (c.447-385 B.C.), a contemporary of Socrates, was the last and greatest of the Old Attic comedians.Only eleven of his plays survive, and this volume contains Lysistrata, the hilariously bawdy anti-war fantasy; The Acharnians, a plea for peace set against the background of the long...
Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
| Author | L. David Marquet |
| ISBN | 1591846404 |
"Leadership should mean giving control rather than taking control and creating leaders rather than forging followers." David Marquet, an experienced Navy officer, was used to giving orders. As newly appointed captain of the USS Santa Fe, a nuclear-powered submarine, he was responsible for more...
A Republic, If You Can Keep It
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Justice Neil Gorsuch reflects on his journey to the Supreme Court, the role of the judge under our Constitution, and the vital responsibility of each American to keep our republic strong.
As Benjamin Franklin left the Constitutional Convention, he was reportedly...
