Author: BjørnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Heritage of the Kurts
Author: BjørnsonThe Heritage of the Kurts
Author: Bjørnstjerne BjørnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Norwegian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Fantasyland
Author: Kurt AndersenPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1588366871
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The single most important explanation, and the fullest explanation, of how Donald Trump became president of the United States . . . nothing less than the most important book that I have read this year.”—Lawrence O’Donnell How did we get here? In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, Kurt Andersen shows that what’s happening in our country today—this post-factual, “fake news” moment we’re all living through—is not something new, but rather the ultimate expression of our national character. America was founded by wishful dreamers, magical thinkers, and true believers, by hucksters and their suckers. Fantasy is deeply embedded in our DNA. Over the course of five centuries—from the Salem witch trials to Scientology to the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, from P. T. Barnum to Hollywood and the anything-goes, wild-and-crazy sixties, from conspiracy theories to our fetish for guns and obsession with extraterrestrials—our love of the fantastic has made America exceptional in a way that we've never fully acknowledged. From the start, our ultra-individualism was attached to epic dreams and epic fantasies—every citizen was free to believe absolutely anything, or to pretend to be absolutely anybody. With the gleeful erudition and tell-it-like-it-is ferocity of a Christopher Hitchens, Andersen explores whether the great American experiment in liberty has gone off the rails. Fantasyland could not appear at a more perfect moment. If you want to understand Donald Trump and the culture of twenty-first-century America, if you want to know how the lines between reality and illusion have become dangerously blurred, you must read this book. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE “This is a blockbuster of a book. Take a deep breath and dive in.”—Tom Brokaw “[An] absorbing, must-read polemic . . . a provocative new study of America’s cultural history.”—Newsday “Compelling and totally unnerving.”—The Village Voice “A frighteningly convincing and sometimes uproarious picture of a country in steep, perhaps terminal decline that would have the founding fathers weeping into their beards.”—The Guardian “This is an important book—the indispensable book—for understanding America in the age of Trump.”—Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci
Endpapers
Author: Alexander WolffPublisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN: 0802158277
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
“A powerfully told story of family, honor, love, and truth . . . the beautiful and haunting stories told in this book transcend policy and politics.” —Beto O’Rourke A literary gem researched over a year the author spent living in Berlin, Endpapers excavates the extraordinary histories of the author’s grandfather and father: the renowned publisher Kurt Wolff, dubbed “perhaps the twentieth century’s most discriminating publisher” by the New York Times Book Review, and his son Niko, who fought in the Wehrmacht during World War II before coming to America. Born in Bonn into a highly cultured German-Jewish family, Kurt became a publisher at twenty-three, setting up his own firm and publishing Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth, Karl Kraus, and many other authors whose books would soon be burned by the Nazis. After fleeing Germany in 1933, Kurt and his second wife, Helen, founded Pantheon Books in a small Greenwich Village apartment. Pantheon would soon take its own place in literary history with the publication of Nobel laureate Boris Pasternak’s novel Doctor Zhivago, and as the conduit that brought major European works to the States. But Kurt’s taciturn son Niko, offspring of his first marriage to Elisabeth Merck, was left behind in Germany, where despite his Jewish heritage he served the Nazis on two fronts. As Alexander Wolff visits dusty archives and meets distant relatives, he discovers secrets that never made it to the land of fresh starts, including the connection between Hitler and the family pharmaceutical firm E. Merck. With surprising revelations from never-before-published family letters, diaries, and photographs, Endpapers is a moving and intimate family story, weaving a literary tapestry of the perils, triumphs, and secrets of history and exile.
HERITAGE OF THE KURTS
Author: BJORNSTJERNE. BJORNSONPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033876015
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Heritage of the Kurts;
Author: Bjornstjerne BjornsonPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9780526002399
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume II (of 2)
Author: Bjørnstjerne BjørnsonThe Absent Jews
Author: Cordelia HessPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 178533493X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
For nearly a century, it has been a commonplace of Central European history that there were no Jews in medieval Prussia—the result, supposedly, of the ruling Teutonic Order’s attempts to create a purely Christian crusader’s state. In this groundbreaking historical investigation, however, medievalist Cordelia Hess demonstrates the very weak foundations upon which that assumption rests. In exacting detail, she traces this narrative to the work of a single, minor Nazi-era historian, revealing it to be ideologically compromised work that badly mishandles its evidence. By combining new medieval scholarship with a biographical and historiographical exploration grounded in the 20th century, The Absent Jews spans remote eras while offering a fascinating account of the construction of historical knowledge.
HERITAGE OF THE KURTS
Author: Bjornstjerne 1832-1910 BjornsonPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781362940234
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson MEGAPACK ®
Author: Bjørnstjerne BjørnsonPublisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479401803
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2608
Book Description
"The Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Megapack: collects 159 works by the great Norwegian author (and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature) -- 24 prose works, 6 plays, and 129 poems -- plus three critical introduction and a long introductory biography. Prose works include: THE FATHER ABSALOM'S HAIR ARNE: A Sketch of Norwegian Country Life THE RAILROAD AND THE CHURCHYARD THROND A DANGEROUS WOOING THE BEAR HUNTER THE FATHER THE EAGLE’S NEST THE BRIDAL MARCH ONE DAY CAPTAIN MANSANA MOTHER'S HANDS A HAPPY BOY THE HERITAGE OF THE KURTS, Volume I THE HERITAGE OF THE KURTS, Volume II IN GOD'S WAY MAGNHILD DUST MARY OVIND THE EAGLE'S NEST THE FATHER THE FISHER GIRL Plays include: THE NEWLY-MARRIED COUPLE LEONARDA THE EDITOR A GAUNTLET THE BANKRUPT THE KING Please search this ebook store for "Wildside Megapack" to see more volumes in the series, collecting great tales of adventure, mystery, science fiction, westerns, ghost stories -- and much, much more! (Sort by publication date to see the most recent additions.)