Posterity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Posterity write by Dorie McCullough Lawson. This book was released on 2008-04-22. Posterity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An elegantly designed, beautifully composed volume of personal letters from famous American men and women that celebrates the American Experience and illuminates the rich history of some of America’s most storied families. Posterity is at once an epistolary chronicle of America and a fascinating glimpse into the hearts and minds of some of history’s most admired figures and storied families. Spanning more than three centuries, these letters contain enduring lessons—in life, love, character and compassion—that will surprise and enlighten. Included here are letters from Thomas Jefferson to his daughter, warning her of the evils of debt; General Patton on D-Day to his son, a cadet at West Point, about what it means to be a good soldier; W.E.B. Du Bois to his daughter about character beneath the color of skin; Oscar Hammerstein about why, after all his success, he doesn’t stop working; Woody Guthrie, writing from a New Jersey asylum, to nine-year-old Arlo about universal human frailty; Eleanor Roosevelt chastising her grown son for his Christmas plans; and Groucho Marx as a dog to his twenty-five-year-old son. Here are renowned Americans in their own words and in their own times, seen as they were seen by their children. Here are our great Americans as mothers and fathers.
Framed for Posterity
Framed for Posterity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Framed for Posterity write by Ralph Ketcham. This book was released on 1993. Framed for Posterity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ketcham delves not only into the meaning of the documents but also into the connotations of the framers' vocabulary, the reasoning behind both accepted and rejected propositions, arguments for and against, and unstated assumptions. In his analysis, the fundamental or enduring principles are republicanism, liberty, public good, and federalism (as part of the broader doctrine of balance of powers).
Why Posterity Matters
Why Posterity Matters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Posterity Matters write by Avner De-Shalit. This book was released on 2005-06-20. Why Posterity Matters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first comprehensive philosophical examination of our duties to future generations, Dr de-Shalit argues that they are a matter of justice, not charity or supererogation.
Posterity
Posterity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Posterity write by Rocco Rubini. This book was released on 2022-01-18. Posterity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Rocco Rubini studies the motives and literary forms in the making of a "tradition," not understood narrowly, as the conservative, stubborn preservation of received conventions, values, and institutions, but rather more generously and etymologically interpreted: as the deliberate effort on the part of writers to transmit a reformulated past across generations. Leveraging Italian thinkers from Petrarch to Gramsci, with stops at the most prominent humanists in between (including Giambattista Vico, Carlo Goldoni, Francesco De Sanctis, and Benedetto Croce), Rubini gives us an innovative lens through which to view an Italian intellectual tradition that is at once premodern and modern, a legacy that does not depend on a date or a single masterpiece, but instead requires the reader to parse an entire career of writings to uncover deeper, transhistorical continuities that span 600 years. Whether reading forward to the 1930s, or backward to the 14th century, Rubini elucidates the interplay of creation and reception underlying the enactment of tradition, the practice of retrieving and conserving, and the revivification of shared themes and intentions linking these thinkers across time"--
Romantic Poets and the Culture of Posterity
Romantic Poets and the Culture of Posterity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Romantic Poets and the Culture of Posterity write by Andrew Bennett. This book was released on 1999-12-02. Romantic Poets and the Culture of Posterity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This 1999 book examines the way in which the Romantic period's culture of posterity inaugurates a tradition of writing which demands that the poet should write for an audience of the future: the true poet, a figure of neglected genius, can be properly appreciated only after death. Andrew Bennett argues that this involves a radical shift in the conceptualization of the poet and poetic reception, with wide-ranging implications for the poetry and poetics of the Romantic period. He surveys the contexts for this transformation of the relationship between poet and audience, engaging with issues such as the commercialization of poetry, the gendering of the canon, and the construction of poetic identity. Bennett goes on to discuss the strangely compelling effects which this reception theory produces in the work of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley and Byron, who have come to embody, for posterity, the figure of the Romantic poet.
