This unique novel, written with flair and humor, deals powerfully and engagingly with the whole Wall Street-Big Banks disaster and the terrible impact on America, and with the failure of government officials to hold them accountable. Further, it tackles the severe inequality of income and wealth and a corrupted Congress and election process. And unlike the typical political novel, this one isn't based in Washington or focused on the political games of regular politicians. Part 3 of the novel broadens out into a story of developments in election 2012, with material and twists that will appeal to many who are hungry for restoring the American democracy and making the economy work for the great majority, not just an extremely wealthy elite. Indeed, the spirit of the novel and developments throughout offer hope and inspiration, and the striking real public opinion findings, coordinated with issues, show the way for changing our politics. (The author has exceptional credentials for writing about this. See www.deanalger.com.) There are also a couple of interesting and sexy love stories. And music is a big part of the story. The much commented on political novel of the '90s, Primary Colors, “by Anonymous,” was about the political game. In fall 2011 another political novel came out by another “Anonymous,” which is simply titled O (as in Obama). It's also about the political game (and the author wavered between realism and elements that were very at odds with real political conditions). But people are sick of political games.The story in Parts 1 and 2 of The Bankers' Greed Blues is initiated by the novel's first key character performing Alger's/”Dr. D's” powerful protest song, “The Bankers' Greed Blues”—the source of the novel's title. NOTE: There is a companion video on YouTube of a live performance of the song by the author/“Dr. D,” and two other superb musicians. On YouTube, search: “Protest song-Bankers' Greed Blues.”In Part 1 the story develops from performances of that song. A group of people gradually coalesces and decides to do something significant and unusual to hold those greedy, arrogant Big Bankers accountable and send a potent symbolic message to America that “We the People” have had it and things must fundamentally change. That leads to dramatic actions in Part 2, which include stylish, compelling writing, along with some pointed humor; many people will cheer all that.Part 3 draws out “a documentary of the near future” about what could (and should) happen in election 2012. A striking US senate candidate, with commitment and integrity, leads a national coalition and movement beyond the political parties called “A New Declaration of Independence” to change the dominance of big money special interests and a corrupted Congress and election process. Real people from the world of politics make “appearances” in the novel.One of the things that make the novel interesting and engaging is the substantial and creative use of music. There are appropriate cameo appearances by famous musicians, as well as actors, from Bruce Springsteen to Pete Seeger to John Mayer to Susan Sarandon and Danny Glover.
Lonnie Johnson (1894–1970) was a virtuoso guitarist who influenced generations of musicians from Django Reinhardt to Eric Clapton to Bill Wyman and especially B. B. King. Born in New Orleans, he began playing violin and guitar in his father’s band at an early age. When most of his family was wiped out by the 1918 flu epidemic, he and his surviving brother moved to St. Louis, where he won a blues contest that included a recording contract. His career was launched. Johnson can be heard on many Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong records, including the latter’s famous “Savoy Blues” with the Hot Five. He is perhaps best known for his 12-string guitar solos and his ground-breaking recordings with the white guitarist Eddie Lang in the late 1920s. After World War II he began playing rhythm and blues and continued to record and tour until his death. This is the first full-length work on Johnson. Dean Alger answers many biographical mysteries, including how many members of Johnson’s large family were left after the epidemic. It also places Johnson and his musical contemporaries in the context of American race relations and argues for the importance of music in the fight for civil rights. Finally, Alger analyzes Johnson’s major recordings in terms of technique and style. Distribution of an accompanying music CD will be coordinated with the release of this book.
This work of Mr. Howells is similar in lightness of material and delicacy of workman ship to "A Fearful Responsibility" and other minor productions of his deft hand which hold a unique and ill-defined position between the novel and the short story. It is brief; it is free from the mysteries of a plot; it is perfectly simple in plan; and the characters are not elaborated, but rather sketched with a few strong touches, so quick and free that we hardly appreciate the excellence of the art until we close the book and find how its principal personages haunt the memory. In its motive, however, "Dr. Breen's Practice" rises distinctly above the tales with which the ordinary reader will be likely to compare it, and approaches the intellectual level of "The Undiscovered Country." Like that master- work, it deals with a serious phase of mental experience, somewhat out of the common, and yet not so remote from our daily life as to seem unreal; and it analyzes perplexity and passion, a little melancholy and a little grotesque, with a mingling of sympathy and gentle humor that is wholly inimitable. Doctor Breen is a young lady — a young lady with no extravagant ideas about what is called the cause of woman, but with a certain morbid, self-questioning sense of duty, under the strain of which she has devoted herself to a career she does not love. "At the end of the ends she was a Puritan; belated, misdated, if the reader will, and cast upon good works for the consolation which the Puritans formerly found in a creed. Riches and ease were sinful to her, and somehow to be atoned for; and she had no real love for anything that was not of an immediate humane and spiritual effect. " Miss Breen breaks down forever under her first patient, discovering what the reader has seen from the start, that she lacks the mental and spiritual aptitude for her self-imposed task. There is a deep pathos in this sudden and utter defeat, relieved a little but not obscured by an elusive flavor of comedy which pervades the narrative. It does not impress us long; for Mr. Howells does poetical justice to his heroine at the end, and winds up the little tale of trouble with a charming and dainty eclaircissement. Grace Breen is one of the most lovable of his creations. She carries our hearts as surely as the Lady of the Aroostook; and not less admirably than that exquisite heroine does she illustrate the keen insight into feminine character, and the poetic perception of feminine ways which delight us in all Mr. Howells's stories.
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The author relates his experiences in the State Department during a period that witnessed World War II, European reconstruction, the Korean War and McCarthyism.
Abstract: This thesis is a study of al-Ghazālī’s views on occasionalism. Although al-Ghazālī’s views on occasionalism are indeterminate, it is evident that his theological work aims to affirm the omnipotence and liberty of God in exerting influence upon His created order. One polemical challenge against divine omnipotence and the integrity of religious revelation from the Islamic tradition comes from the Aristotelian-inspired philosophers who argue that the natural order operates through natures that are intrinsic to certain objects. This view on natural philosophy undermines the orthodox commitment to miracles as depicted in the Qur’an and ḥadīth literature. Al-Ghazālī uses a variety of arguments to affirm miracles and God’s agency in the created order, not only be assailing the natural philosophy that the world operates according to the natures intrinsic to created objects, but also arguing that God can operate through mysterious and previously unknown phenomena in the natural order. Thus, according to al-Ghazālī, since God can manifest His power through mysterious, unknown phenomenon, there is no epistemological means to distinguish between natural and supernatural events. That is not problematic for al-Ghazali if God’s power is so pervasive that it encompasses everything. However, it undermines miracles as being a theological proof of the validity of revelation and prophecy since it undercuts any theoretical means of distinguishing between mundane, natural events, and a supernatural sign which affirms the veracity of a prophet.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize With deft portraits of many world figures, Dean Acheson analyzes the processes of policy making, the necessity for decision, and the role of power and initiative in matters of state. 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 as Secretary of State at the end of the Truman years. Throughout that time Acheson's was one of the most influential minds and strongest wills at work. It was a period that included World War II, the reconstruction of Europe, the Korean War, the development of nuclear power, the formation of the United Nations and NATO. It involved him at close quarters with a cast that starred Truman, Roosevelt, Churchill, de Gaulle, Marshall, MacArthur, Eisenhower, Attlee, Eden Bevin, Schuman, Dulles, de Gasperi, Adenauer, Yoshida, Vishinsky, and Molotov.
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Christmas Every Day, The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Traveler from Altruria, The Flight of Pony Baker, Venetian Life, Italian Journeys, Imaginary Interviews, A Boy's Town, Years of My Youth…
Christmas Every Day, The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Traveler from Altruria, The Flight of Pony Baker, Venetian Life, Italian Journeys, Imaginary Interviews, A Boy's Town, Years of My Youth…
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of William Dean Howells: 27 Novels & 40+ Short Stories, Including Plays, Poems, Travel Sketches, Historical Works & Autobiography (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author, literary critic, and playwright. He was known for the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day" and the novels The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Traveler from Altruria. Table of Contents: A Forgone Conclusion A Chance Acquaintance A Modern Instance A Pair of Patient Lovers A Traveler from Altruria An Open-Eyed Conspiracy Annie Kilburn April Hopes Dr. Breen's Practice Fennel and Rue Indian Summer Questionable Shapes Ragged Lady The Coast of Bohemia The Kentons The Lady of Aroostook The Landlord at Lion's Head The Leatherwood God The Minister's Charge The Quality of Mercy The Rise of Silas Lapham The Story of a Play Through the Eye of the Needle Their Wedding Journey A Hazard of New Fortunes Their Silver Wedding Journey The Flight of Pony Baker Christmas Every Day and Other Stories Boy Life Between the Dark and the Daylight The Daughter of the Storage and Other Things in Prose and Verse A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories Buying a Horse The Night Before Christmas A Counterfeit Presentment Bride Roses A Likely Story Evening Dress Five O'Clock Tea The Albany Depot The Elevator The Garotters The Parlor Car The Register The Sleeping-Car Poems Venetian Life Italian Journeys Roman Holidays and Others Suburban Sketches Familiar Spanish Travels A Little Swiss Sojourn London Films Seven English Cities Stories of Ohio Criticism and Fiction Literary Friends and Acquaintance Literature and Life My Literary Passions Imaginary Interviews and Other Essays Modern Italian Poets A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction The Man of Letters as a Man of Business Emile Zola Henry James Carl Schurz A Boy's Town Years of My Youth…
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