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Recommended Readings, 1988, Shaun O'Connell
Recommended Readings, 1988, Shaun O'Connell
New England Journal of Public Policy
Shaun O'Connell reviews a selection of readings for would-be presidents. None of our recent presidents — going back to Dwight Eisenhower — has been a reader of "imaginative literature." While this is not, perhaps, entirely unexpected and may be indicative of the pressures on their time rather than an intrinsic aversion to literature, it should nevertheless at least lead us to ask whether their visions of who we are and our possibilities are limited by their failure to "confront some of the implications raised by serious works of the imagination, works that force us to face mysteries in the world …
American Irish Newsletter - April - May 1988, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec
American Irish Newsletter - April - May 1988, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec
American Irish Newsletter
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American Irish Newsletter - February - March 1988, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec
American Irish Newsletter - February - March 1988, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec
American Irish Newsletter
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John C. Van Dyke: The Desert, Peter Wild
John C. Van Dyke: The Desert, Peter Wild
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
During the late spring of 1898, a strange figure made his way eastward through windy San Gorgonio Pass and disappeared into the thousands of square miles of desert beyond. He didn’t know where he was going, his horse carried only Spartan supplies, and, to top off his prospects, he was seriously ill. The few men who watched him leave civilization shook their heads. Surely he would die out there in the uninhabited, bleak spaces stretching off for hundreds of miles, die of starvation, thirst, snake bite, madness—almost pick what you will. At the time, coastal southern California was booming with …
Edward Dorn, William Mcpheron
Edward Dorn, William Mcpheron
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
Edward Dorn is a political poet committed to the ideals of democratic culture. A fierce partisan of the free play of critical thought, he is acutely sensitive to the socio-economic forces aligned against an open society. “Democracy,” he insists, “literally has to be cracked on the head all the time to keep it in good condition” (Contemporary Authors 129), and he understands its most serious enemy to be capitalism’s enormous power, which in the post-World Wai- II era has reached beyond the marketplace to infiltrate and control every aspect of American life. Though he despises the bourgeois ethos that …